by GHK Lall Exxon Guyana is on the move.  Westward, ho, and it is to Essequibo (“ExxonMobil to search for oil offshore Essequibo Region”, Demerara Waves, February 06, 2024).  It was Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela who started the trash talking, and the warlike bellowing.  Well, it is not who starts a fight, but who finishes it.  Say hello to Exxon ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has submitted its nominees for the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC) which has been tasked with further reforming Guyana’s constitution, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said. They are  Vincent Alexander, Sherwood Lowe, Ganesh Mahipaul and Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes. “We have consulted and it is the parliamentary that had to submit ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that there would be unspecified changes in the way the operations of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in keeping with a greater focus on technology, assets and partnerships with foreign partners. “There will be, based on our assessment, some reorientation, reorganising of the way we do our work and ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that the designation of the highest military appointment, Chief-of-Staff, would be changed to Chief of Defence. Addressing the opening of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) 2024 Annual Officers’ Conference, he said the change is in keeping with what obtains across the Caribbean and elsewhere. “This will be the last officers ...

by Retired Read Admiral  Gary Best, LLB; LEC; PhD. So much chatter in the budget about taking care of the Guyanese family, yet it challenges the protection of the earned oil revenues. It is irrefutable that independent management of Natural Resource Funds (NRFs) is the best practice. Therefore, the Guyana NRF requires standard rules of accountability throughout and not political ...

Venezuela has reacted sharply to ExxonMobil’s plans to drill  exploration wells offshore the Essequibo Region, but records show that this is not the first time that the company has done so. ExxonMobil had drilled Ranger, Tarpon and Tanager wells that are west of the Essequibo River with no response by the Nicolas Maduro administration. Tanager was plugged because it is ...

The now three-day old teachers’ strike called by the Guyana Teachers’ Union is “political” as the educators are responding to political decisions by the government for refusing to address their demand for increased salaries and allowances, Executive Member of the People’s National Congress Reform, Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best said Wednesday. “It is a political issue. The government is a ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Economics Dr. Gary Best is the new intellectual voice of the languishing APNU-AFC. This is not good, because this same Dr. Best, to the best of my knowledge, has never published a refereed paper on economic development, and certainly not on macro-economics. If he has, he should share it. The closest the new economic guru ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Tuesday said it would be collecting union dues through Mobile Money Guyana (MMG), hours after the Ministry of Education notified that it would stop collecting union dues on behalf of that bargaining agent. “You take away the dues, MMG will work,” GTU President, Coretta Mc Donald told reporters from the picket line. “It might ...

by Retired Read Admiral  Gary Best, LLB; LEC; PhD. According to VP Jagdeo, “richer people can afford private health care and private education.” He was also excited to tell the Guyanese family that “…the services that are now produced in the private sector that you have to pay for, CT scan, ultrasound etc, … if you can get these in ...