Opinion

Dear Editor, The recent court matter about the EPA’s treatment of the financial liability that would arise if there is an oil spill has many lessons for us as we learn to manage our emerging oil and gas sector. 

Dear Editor, The “independent” constitutional agency, the Public Procurement Commis-sion (PPC) is yet to provide an acknowledgement to my official complaints for contracts investigation, lodged since February 2023.

Dear Editor, Allow me a space in your daily to ask Vice President Jagdeo and the PPP how it is that after its first term of twenty-three years (1992- 2015), and three years since their re-election in 2020, they only now see it fit to unveil a plan for the development of New Amsterdam.

Dear Editor,  A little over a decade ago, members of the media were invited to the launch of the ambitiously conceived Independent Media Association of Guyana (IMAG), the organizational objective of which was “To collaborate with media workers in promoting Professional & Ethical standards, Safeguarding and Promoting the rights & Privileges of the media in all Guyana”.

Dear Editor, As residents across Guyana prepare to elect persons from their own communities to represent them at the local government level, the PPP/C has embarked on a programme of using the people’s own resources to restrict, oppress and discriminate against them.

For the first time since it found oil here in 2015 and inveigled a scandalous Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) out of the APNU+AFC government in 2016, ExxonMobil finds itself in uncharted waters. 

Dear Editor, Pensioners used to get the first 10 cubic meter water per month free, we have to pay for any amount above that.

Dear Editor, In its shameful and anti-national appeal to Justice Sandil Kissoon’s fearless and powerful ruling against the EPA for its breach of duty and failure to enforce clauses in the Permit issued to ESSO governing oil extraction, the EPA has argued that the Permit is a mere contract between the parties, and exceeds the boundaries of the EP Act… (‘EPA files appeal against Exxon insurance ruling,’ SN, May 10, 2023).

Dear Editor, It is observed the Attorney General of a CARICOM State is to seek urgent advice on the merits of appeal in a recent court ruling handed down (Saturday Express May 4).

Dear Editor, It was brought to our attention that in the Guyana Times newspaper dated May 2, 2023, a letter signed by Attiya Baksh accused us of being dormant during the time the APNU/AFC coalition was in office.

Dear Editor, There are discussions in Guyana that in the coming months the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will be very busy hearing appeals from Exxon, the oil giant, which is now engaged in massive oil exploration in Guyana… these debates came as the regional apex court welcomed its fifth member in the Appellate Jurisdiction.

Dear Editor, In the nineteen eighties when the Janata Party ruled India, the country recorded impressive growth rates on a sustained basis.

Dear Editor, Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed some troubling signs which go to the heart of our democracy, good governance and welfare of the state and people.

Dear Editor, I wish to highlight a major concern when it comes to victims of abuse and domestic violence, more specifically, our women, as I believe that some of the decisions and actions of our women are alarming and worrisome as much as the social crisis and dilemma that we have been faced with for years.

Dear Editor, All Guyanese should welcome the High Court’s ruling of Justice Sandil Kissoon ordering the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to secure an unlimited liability Parent Company Guarantee Agreement and/or an unlimited liability Affiliate Company Guarantee from ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL. 

Dear Editor, It has been noted that there appears to be an increasing number of assaults (beating) of Police Officers while conducting their duty of maintaining public order in the country.

Dear Editor, The Guyanese society has descended into utter lawlessness. The recent video of two male civilians attacking a uniformed Police Officer, while on duty, has made its way across the social media spectrum, nationally and internationally.

 In February this year the government estimate of migrants entering Guyana from Venezuela was around 40,000.