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(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.

In part 3 we showed that oil companies seemed to have no trouble providing insurance to protect foreign stakeholders and how moral hazard featured in banking, so much so that it helped bring down the financial system in 2007/8.

(A Transparency Institute Guyana Inc column) (Editor’s note: This is the third instalment in a five-part series.

In a report on March 13, 2019 last Dr. Jan Mangal, who has been on a crusade to get the contract with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary renegotiated is credited with having indicated that “… changing the royalty, from two to more, would see Exxon putting up a fight.

(A column by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc) The issue of whistleblowing was discussed recently in the public domain both with respect to the Guyana Police Force and the larger public service.

(This is the eighth of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

(This is the seventh of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

(This is the sixth of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

Our May 4, 2016 Stabroek News column (SN), focused on institutional trust and citizen engagement in Guyana. It recognised

We began to scrutinise the proposed Cybercrime Bill for Guyana in the previous instalment of this column.

Part I The proposed Cybercrime Bill addresses several important issues inclusive of cyberbullying, child pornography, sexual grooming and luring children into sexual activity, revenge pornography and cyber blackmail and copyright infringements all using computer systems (see definition subsequently) among other important matters.

A column by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc Recently, the number and prominence of foreign analysts who have corroborated the early view expressed by local analysts have increased.

(A column by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc) On September 10, 2017, Stabroek News published an article containing remarks by Treasurer of the AFC and Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin; the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon; and the Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, on the matter of political (campaign) financing legislation.

Definition of Transparency & Accountability Transparency and accountability are words often uttered in the same breath, but what do they mean?

The upcoming May 11, 2015 election is being widely viewed by analysts and citizens alike as a pivotal election for Guyana as a fledgling democracy.

Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change to submit a weekly column on governance and related matters.

Since the news of an apparent abuse in the grant of duty-free concessions to two remigrants, I have been tempted to do an article on the Remigrant’s Scheme with a view to identifying any shortcomings that might have contributed to this apparent abuse.

In the wake of relentlessly mounting evidence pointing to grave irregularities within the forestry sector, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has chosen to issue blanket statements in defence of the conduct of operations by the foreign multinationals that dominate the sector.

The word democracy has its origin in two Greek words which together mean ‘people power’ (demos = people; kratos = power).

Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change  to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters.