By Dr. Meredith Arnold McIntyre - OilNOW
This is the second in a series of articles on economic and development policy to protect Guyana from experiencing “Dutch Disease.”
The rapidly expanding oil sector and associated rising oil revenues have placed...
By Arthur Deakin - OilNOW
Within months, Guyana is expected to have auctioned 14 different oil blocks surrounding the biggest offshore oil discovery in the last decade. The government has announced that there could be 25 billion barrels of...
By Jerry Haar
Assessing the economic condition of the State of Maryland where he was elected governor in January, Wes Moore concluded: “we are asset rich and strategy poor.” Some would argue that evaluation applies to Guyana,...
By Dr. Carolyn Walcott & Dr. Terrence Blackman
Many people in Guyana, a small country, culturally a part of the Caribbean, located in the northeastern corner of South America, must be made aware that the country has a stock exchange....
By Dr. Carolyn Walcott & Dr. Terrence Blackman
Guyana, a small country on the Atlantic coast of South America, is in the throes of a significant economic transformation. The 2015 discovery of large oil and gas reserves off its coast...
By Christina Caus - OilNOW
We live in vulnerable energy times. The energy crisis, climate change, and energy transition are all shaking and shaping the global future.
"The energy realities of the world remind us that oil and gas will be here for decades to...
By Terrence Blackman, Ph. D. & Utamu Bell
In Episode 10, “Unlocking Guyana’s Oil and Gas Potential,” in the Transforming Guyana webinar series hosted by the Guyana Business Journal (GBJ) and the Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC), the episode explored a...
By Joel Bhagwandin - OilNOW
I am writing in reference to a letter published the Stabroek News on March 23, 2023, with the caption, “Vreed-en-Hoop shore base, funded with Guyana’s oil revenues makes it a private, public partnership”.
I must disclose...
By Riyad Insanally
Last month, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Energy Minister Stuart Young proposed a Caribbean energy alliance involving Guyana, Suriname and, of course, his own country. In broad terms, he was offering T&T’s established capacity to process oil and...
By Dr. Lorraine Sobers - OilNOW
There was greater Trinidad and Tobago presence at this year’s International Energy Conference and Expo Guyana 2023, than in 2022. Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Keith Rowley, was one of...
