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Venezuelan hybrid war continues

Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro continues its inexorable hybrid war against us. The latest salvo is last week’s inauguration of the bridge to Ankoko Island in the Cuyuni River, construction of which was started last May. As we have emphasized, as opposed to the...

Five years of oil

While oil was struck right before the 2015 elections, the Exxon/Hess/CNOOC partnership that worked the Stabroek Block concession deep off our Atlantic shores started pumping the “black gold” by the end of 2019, a record in the oil industry. That, of course, means we...

A friend …or foe?

For all our history, we, Guyanese, have been taught we were all one happy British imperial family…on which the sun never set. Oldsters would remember looking with pride at those splotches of red across the globe that signalled our “togetherness”. As Independence...