Jan 04, 2023
(This week’s column is dedicated to the memory of Elaine Therese Radzik Sochacki (nee Vieira), April 1st 1930 – January 4 2011.) On December 16, 2022, Justice Nareshwar Harnanan pronounced his ruling on the Judicial Review case filed in the High Court by Vanda Radzik, Danuta Radzik and Raphael Singh vs the Environmental Protection Agency...
Oct 03, 2022
By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an international lawyer and an attorney-at-law in Guyana In 2016, Raphael Trotman, the Minister responsible for petroleum signed a Petroleum Agreement with three oil companies – Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd.(Esso), Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. (Hess) and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Ltd CNOOC). These are not the big international...
Feb 21, 2022
By Rahul Basu Rahul Basu is the Research Director at the Goa Foundation and a member of ‘The Future We Need’, a global movement to make intergenerational equity foundational for civilisation beginning with minerals. Treating mineral sale proceeds as revenue or income hides the real transaction — the sale of inherited wealth The principle that...
Feb 14, 2022
By Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) OGGN’s mission is to educate and bring pressure to bear on Guyana’s policy makers to make sure the oil curse doesn’t happen in Guyana. You can learn more about OGGN at www.oggn.org/about, and you can also learn about the many issues with respect to our oil in the...
Feb 07, 2022
By Mike McCormack Mike McCormack is currently a Co-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and Convenor of the Policy Forum Guyana (PFG), a broad coalition of civic organizations with a common concern for the environment. He functioned as the Oxfam Director for the Andean Region based in Lima in the 1970s and taught...
Dec 20, 2021
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...
Dec 13, 2021
By Stabroek News December 13, 2021 This week we carry the full text of a letter that was submitted on Friday December 10 to Mr. Lochan, Chair of the Environmental Assessment Board and Mr. Kemraj Parsram, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The letter was signed by the following concerned citizens and participants at...
Nov 15, 2021
Stabroek YellowTail – Public Meeting Environmental Impact Assessment & Environmental Impact Statement – Audio Recorded on Nov11th, 2021 6pm Guyana Time Last Thursday evening, close to one hundred persons attended, via zoom, a consultation on Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL)/ExxonMobil’s (XOM) Yellowtail Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which was presented by the consultancy firm...
Oct 04, 2021
By Neville Trotz Dr. Neville Trotz served as Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Guyana and Director of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology at Turkeyen, Guyana, before becoming Science Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary-General (1991-1997). Most recently he served as Science Adviser to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, based...
Sep 24, 2021
Guyana’s Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) has launched an investigation into the alleged submission of false information by Vista Trading and Logistics (Guyana) Inc. This news agency first highlighted yesterday that Vista, in its project document for the establishment of a well cement and storage facility, claimed to be a subsidiary of Toolsie Persaud Limited. In...
