Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to SN’s ongoing high cost-of-living series, and make this confession. 

Dear Editor, Recently, a labour leader attacked the government and another union over assistance to GuySuCo signaling a lack of solidarity among unions and their leaders.

Dear Editor, Hopetown farmer Trevor Jameer was doused with gasoline and set afire on the 17th of February because he assisted the police in removing a car torched following an accident; on the day following there was no statement from the Guyana Police Force addressing this barbaric criminal action, instead we were bombarded by images of the Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken dapperly dressed in an all-white outfit directing his energies towards the preparation of the GPF Mash band.

Dear Editor, Guyana is facing a complex set of challenges and opportunities in the face of decreasing demand for oil worldwide.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter in the Stabroek News edition of February 18, 2023, captioned, “the Exxon HQ budget is an added burden on the backs of Guyanese”, by opposition Member of Parliament (MP), Ganesh Mahipaul.

Dear Editor, With the looming first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, analysts and historians will long debate whether Russia’s security was indeed severely compromised and its invasion of Ukraine in defence of its national security had any basis in international law and whether the United States and its allies were over-ambitious in expanding the European Union and NATO to the borders of Russia.

Dear Editor, I am offering prizes to anybody who survived the entire four hours of the Guyana Prize for Literature last weekend.

Dear Editor, My friend Gokarran Sukhdeo reminded me: “Racial pluralism in Guyana was not an invention of British colonialism, although the British mastered it and practiced it with the greatest expertise, especially in India and Africa, namely, caste and tribal hierarchical delineations.

The successive  oil and gas fora that have been staged in Guyana have had the effect of attracting a level of international attention to the country that complements the high global profile which the country had incrementally accumulated in the wake of ExxonMobil’s 2015 announcement of its first major oil find offshore Guyana.

Dear Editor, Do not be fooled by a book’s cover, or its title, as in the case of “Shitty People.”

Dear Editor, While our Government does not consider it appropriate at this time to share with Guyanese any information on the Gas-to–Energy project, Mr.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Melinda Janki, Guyanese attorney-at-law, for being conferred with the prestigious “Rule of Law” 2023 award from the Commonwealth Law Association (CLA).

Dear Editor, I was recently reading a letter written on the gas to shore project where the author says that Exxon will be financing the pipeline and the government will pay them back over 20 years.

Dear Editor, All Guyana that pays attention owes Mr. Winston Brassington a word of thanks for his offering on the gas-to-shore project at the International Energy Conference of 2023. 

Dear Editor, At the conclusion of Guyana’s National Budget 2023, a major debate erupted over the pros and cons of the fiscal budget. 

It is completely unsurprising that ExxonMobil continues to fend off widespread calls for it to enter a renegotiation of the 2016 Product Sharing Agreement (PSA) with the Government of Guyana to enable the people of this country to have a greater share of the wealth derived from their natural resources.

Dear Editor, The Department of Public Information has distributed several articles in the last few days in mid-February 2023 about the jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits (33.47 million tonnes of CO2e) awarded by Winrock/ART/TREES to the Government of Guyana on 01 December 2022 and sold immediately to the oil company Hess Corporation (USA). 

Dear Editor, On January 8, 2023, ExxonMobil, and its consultant, Accorn, jointly published a notice as per Section 11 of the Environmental Protection Act advising the public that an Environmental Impact Assessment was submitted for Exxon Mobil’s application for an Environmental Permit for its Uaru offshore oil and gas production floating platform.