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“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relegated itself to a state of laxity of enforcement and condonation compounded by a lack of vigilance thereby putting this nation and its people in grave potential danger of calamitous disaster,” those were the words of High Court Judge, Justice Sandil Kissoon, when he handed down his ruling in a monumental case against Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ‘ExxonMobil Guyana,’ Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL). 

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.

Since Guyana commenced oil production in 2019, successive governments have failed to publish the oil sales agreement, outlining the value of each barrel of crude.

With reference to the letter, ‘Superficial analysis of ethnicity in a country like Guyana is little more than propaganda’ published on 31st March in the Stabroek News, I believe the writer sought to trivialise the concerns of others about the underrepresentation of Indian Guyanese in state agencies and institutions by claiming that ethnic groups are not ‘pure’ and therefore there isn’t exclusion. This assertion is rather groundless.

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.