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GUYANA: Exxon’s “enormous pressure” on government; good local content and taxi drivers – By GHK Lall

03/30/2021 – 12:03 am

Kaieteur News – Mar 28, 2021 – Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

OIL – EXXON-MOBIL – PAYARA

The Vice President opened his mouth and showed that he is not up to the job of dealing in the big leagues with the big boys. He laments about “enormous pressure” from Exxon to justify his government’s abject failure to seize the moment and rearrange this country’s prospects from greedy Exxon. He kowtowed embarrassingly with that limp one of getting more for Payara.

To the Hon. Vice President, I say this: it is nothing, not near what it should be. Again, I say this to the VP and Guyana, Exxon is a wounded giant, flopping around and hanging on to Guyana for dear life; it is beached on Guyana’s shores, and any swift kick to the behinds of its rapacious leaders will make them rear up in alarm.        Continue reading →

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