By Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN)
OGGN’s mission is to educate and bring pressure to bear on Guyana’s policy makers to make sure the oil curse doesn’t happen in Guyana.
By Mike McCormack
Mike McCormack is currently a Co-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and Convenor of the Policy Forum Guyana (PFG), a broad coalition of civic organizations with a common concern for the environment.
By Clem Seecharan
Emeritus Professor of History
London Metropolitan University
This is abridged from my introductory essay to a biography of Rai by Baytoram Ramharack, Against the Grain: Balram Singh Rai and the Politics of British Guiana (Trinidad: Chakra, 2005).
By Vidyaratha Kissoon
Vidyaratha Kissoon is involved in the work for gender equality
Stopping Violence against Women and Girls without Gender Equality?
Editor’s Note: On December 30, 2021, President Irfaan Ali assented to the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill which was controversially passed on Wednesday, 29 December 2021 in the National Assembly.
By Richard Drayton
(Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a historian at King’s College London)
On November 30, 2021, on the 55th anniversary of its political independence, Barbados will become a republic.
By Esther Figueroa
Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an activist independent film maker, writer, linguist and educator who focuses on the environment, social justice, indigenous knowledges and local content.
Last Thursday evening, close to one hundred persons attended, via zoom, a consultation on Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL)/ExxonMobil’s (XOM) Yellowtail Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which was presented by the consultancy firm ERM and moderated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Salina Jane is a visual artist of Indo-Guyanese descent who creates art along the themes of heritage, identity and the experience of her family through indenture and their journey from India to Guyana to the UK.
By Neville Trotz
Dr. Neville Trotz served as Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Guyana and Director of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology at Turkeyen, Guyana, before becoming Science Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary-General (1991-1997).