Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo
Apr 17, 2021 – Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) Government is insistent that it will enter Guyana into an energy mix, which simultaneously pulls from gas and renewable sources.
This newspaper recently highlighted that while much has been said about the proposed mix and its benefits, the public is starved of information crucial to the building of confidence in these projects especially as it relates to the gas-to-shore endeavour. .(See that article here, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2021/04/11/are-guyanese-politicians-feeling-in-the-dark-for-electricity-solutions/.)
Another aspect of this energy mix that the PPP is yet to make clear is the cost. Continue reading →
GUYANA: Politics: Oil Fund: Opposition to ramp up protests against new NRF law
… threatens court action against ‘wholesale thievery of oil money’
Scenes from the protest outside Arthur Chung Convention Center yesterday as Opposition MPs join in
December 30, 2021- Kaieteur News – Scores of Guyanese on Wednesday picketed in front of the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC)—where a sitting of the National Assembly was being held to protest their opposition to the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Government’s rush to pass a new Natural Resources Bill, which many have since condemned as a move to legalise wholesale thievery of Guyana’s oil revenues.
The Bill aimed at replacing the NRF Act in place already in order to give sweeping powers and control over the oil fund and its use by the sitting President. Continue reading →
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