Opinion

What form will gov’t/private sector partnership on oil and gas take?

Dear Editor, In one of the dailies I read that the recent world class offshore oil discovery by Exxon Mobil Co, (the world’s largest publicly traded international oil and gas company) has firmly launched Guyana’s hydrocarbon industry and that the Government of Guyana was proposing in association with the Private Sector to construct an onshore base with associated infrastructure in order to support and serve the fledgling offshore Oil and Gas Sector.

Juice contract and transparency

After many years of PPP/C governance during which there was a heavy veil drawn across the huge procurement sector, the people of this country have an excellent opportunity to begin learning how decisions are made osn high value public contracts and whether they can stand up to scrutiny.

Guyana should accept a number of refugees

Dear Editor, Our benign President David Granger, in his noble address recently to the United Nations General Assembly on the matter of the current migrant crisis, noted that the situation “if left unattended or unresolved, can escalate into regional and even global crises, which can threaten the existence of larger numbers of persons in wider areas, even beyond their country’s borders.”

President Granger and the UN

On Tuesday, President David Granger reprised last year’s appeal to the UN General Assembly in relation to the border controversy with Venezuela, and accused that country of obstructing Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s efforts for a final resolution. 

Debating the presidency

As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ready themselves for a debate that is likely to reach more than 100 million viewers, both candidates will recall the outcome of the first, infamous televised encounter between Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy.

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