(A column of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc)
In the part 4 we described how even before Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) began to write on the petroleum contract and advocated for insurance to be included in local content (we had not then made representation for oil spill protection as we began to make recently) Berbice fishermen had demanded oil spill insurance. We pointed out that they seemed to have accurately predicted in that meeting, which is now some five years ago, that there would be a decline in the fish catch because of the petroleum-related activities in Guyana’s waters.