Sep 01, 2022
Kaieteur News – By Davina Bagot – environmentalists tell EPA; want list of companies transporting hazardous waste Kaieteur News – A total of 54 citizens have lashed out against Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to carry out its functions. Dr. Maya Trotz The deficiency, according to the activists, comes as a result of...
Jul 26, 2022
By Laurel Sutherland -residents castigate company, demand EIA Houston residents were yesterday told that Schlumberger Guyana Inc cannot go back in time to conduct an impact survey for its storage and calibration facility with radioactive sources as the process for an Environmental Assessment and Management Plan (EAMP) has now gotten underway. “Unfortunately, we cannot go...
Jul 11, 2022
By Penelope Howell Penelope (Penny) Howell is a trained teacher, and a community activist, and hails from Coverden. Her husband Timothy is from Barbados. They are the proud parents of one son – Matthew Howell. Editor’s Note: Last week residents of Coverden appeared before the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB). This is the fourth time they...
Jun 14, 2022
Kaieteur News – It appears as though United States oil major, ExxonMobil will be creating and adhering to its own standards in the development of the gas sector, as it has been doing with the ongoing oil operations, in the absence of sound regulations and guidelines. Attorney-at-Law, Elizabeth Deane-Hughes in a recent interview with Kaieteur...
May 23, 2022
By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity. Despite this, over three decades, we have built an organisation that advocates and organises with women, beginning with grassroots women, to cross divides and transform our conditions. Red Thread runs the Cora Belle and...
Apr 26, 2022
By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity. Despite this, over three decades, we have built an organisation that advocates and organises with women, beginning with grassroots women, to cross divides and transform our conditions. Red Thread runs the Cora Belle and...
Apr 04, 2022
Who does the EPA work for and answer to? Guyanese communities or foreign investors and big business?
By Penelope Howell Penelope (Penny) Howell is a trained teacher, and a community activist. Her husband Timothy is from Barbados. They are the proud parents of one son – Matthew Howell. I can still see him today, tall, dark and handsome. Well outfitted in his military fatigues ….how I loved him. My dad was a...
Mar 21, 2022
By Red Thread Red Thread’s members are primarily grassroots women, who live daily with various forms of economic and social insecurity. Despite this, over three decades, we have built an organisation that advocates and organises with women, beginning with grassroots women, to cross divides and transform our conditions. Red Thread runs the Cora Belle and...
Feb 17, 2022
A F. started this petition to Government of Guyana Deep-water oil/gas drilling is dangerous. Drilling offshore Guyana threatens Guyana, the Atlantic Ocean and the entire Caribbean . Guyana is one of the world’s few carbon sinks . But Exxonmobil has found 10 billion barrels of oil offshore Guyana. Burning that oil could release over 4...
Jan 03, 2022
Editor’s Note: On December 30, 2021, President Irfaan Ali assented to the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill which was controversially passed on Wednesday, 29 December 2021 in the National Assembly. Policy Forum Guyana issued a statement in which they described the consequence of the new Act as enabling the ruling party to become ‘the proprietors...
