Stabroek Weekend

Guyana’s Oil and Gas Sector: More on dated dogmas and basic fiscal absurdities

Introduction Today’s column continues my rather extended interrogation cum discussion (over the  past several weeks) of the plethora of mis-representations, deceptions, and plain fake news put out ceaselessly in the social and print media by the local and external purveyors of noise and nonsense directed at Guyana’s emergent oil and gas sector.

What Newspapers Do

Some years ago the London Times, on an exceptionally dull day for news, carried a story which it headlined “Small earthquake in Chile: no damage, no injuries.”

Illustrating more fake misrepresentations and revelling in decades-old dogma

Introduction Thus far I have introduced two major metrics in order to illustrate my thesis that the noise and nonsense mis-informers in the social and print media have colluded and connived in generating fake misrepresentations and dated dogma (from four decades ago), in order to portray a relentlessly demoralizing, paralyzing and retrogressive economic narrative of Guyana’s coming time of oil and gas production and sale.

Guyanese Boy

I’m a typical case, I ain’t come to boast Living with my wife in her casa East Coast Pretty bungalow; two mango tree Three dogs – Peppa, Jet and Choo And if you ask me the best, ah not sure who They each got their smartness, each got their way It depends if they’re hungry and what time of day   My mother said, “In life there’ll be times when the tides are high And the boat will be rocking as you try, just never give up, never give up It’s hard to believe but you gotta believe To achieve whatever you need to achieve, just never give up, never give up.

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