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The unprecedented production statistics recorded in recent days by oil and gas giant, ExxonMobil has not slipped the attention of the Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN), an advocacy arm dedicated to better management of Guyana’s petroleum sector.

Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday condemned a recent attack on Kaieteur News’ Senior Journalist, Davina Bagot via a Facebook platform. Speaking at a press conference at Freedom House, the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary said the social media post indeed made vile and disparaging statements about Bagot which should not have been said.

The Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) has issued a written appeal to the nation’s 24 women Parliamentarians, urging that they condemn all attacks against journalists here.  

The Guyana Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) and Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) condemn the ad hominem attacks on female journalists, most recently on Davina Bagot and Nazima Raghubir, on social media websites.

The audit results for the oil companies operating in the Stabroek Block from 1999 to 2017 revealed a stunning US$214 million in questionable expenses. The auditor's report was leaked 2 years after completion which raises questions about why the government wasn’t transparent with the Guyanese people, given the outrageous amount of money under question. There is a larger figure that is a mystery and it relates to the exemptions given to the oil companies and their related contractors for 20...

Back in 2021, Guyana reportedly gave oil and gas companies US$397 million in tax breaks on profit oil, which is about US$191 million more than the country received in that same year from personal income taxes paid by Guyanese workers.

President Irfaan Ali during an event last month said “hypocrites” is the ideal term to describe those attempting to poison and stop the blooming petroleum sector in the country.