Hail the Judiciary-fail the leaders

DEAREDITOR,

The important issue for parent guarantee full coverage insurance, although still not finalised, went in favour of Guyanese and the lawyers fighting for Guyana as per the two judges’rulingssofar

Thereweresomenotable responses to these judges’ rulings, like the internet trolls are now targeting Melinda Jankie with the samevileastheydidtoKN’s Davina Bagot and Kiana Wilburg.

Ihopetrollscansaywhy their party is better than parent guarantee full coverage insurance for Guyana, and can you trolls not see if Guyanese leaders do the right things, they will make more money for themselvesandallGuyanese and walk with their proud heads high? rather than reducing themselves to this current pitiful, pathetic, and spineless excuse for human beings with their sellouts to foreigners.

AsreportedbyDemerara Waves on the Judges’ rulings, ExxonMobil’s Alistair Routledge indicated Exxon and Guyana would suffer significant financial losses.

Mr Routledge added the revenue loss to Exxon and more importantly to Guyana will have serious implicationsanddevastating consequencesintheeventof a permit suspension, since a well blowout or an environmental disaster was unlikely, yes, another vintage Exxon deception speech.Liketrainedanimals, Guyana’sPresident,VP,AG, Chamber of Commerce, and

Private Sector Commission Leaders repeated the words of Exxon’s Routledge as if theywereallgiventhesame scriptwrittenforthem.

Mr Routledge also said Guyana’s EPA could be considered an expert body “which ought to have promptedjudicialrestraint.”, yetifthisEPAwasheadedby Dr Vincent Adams, Routledge would have probably called for the EPA to be restrained by the judiciary or someone else. We can understand Mr. Routledge’s multi-tongue deceptions since he represents ExxonMobil’s shareholderswhowillaward and reward him for fighting for them, but why do Guyana’s political and business leaders chorus his song as if they are also representing ExxonMobil’s shareholders and not Guyanese?

The standard business operating procedure at parliament which includes both opposition and government for foreign companies, is that these companies nor their employees pay no taxes to Guyana, pay no import or export duties, they provide no production data on their operations as they are exemptfromregulationsand monitoring, they have noncompliance with Guyana’s labour, environmental and insurance laws and no compensation provided for other damages perpetuated on Guyanese society from their operations as highlighted by Glenn Lall, likethetrafficcongestion.

Thedeviousnessdoneby MPs for foreign companies against Guyanese only get exposed by court cases, and if the courts order foreign companies to comply with Guyana’s inadequate and outdated laws, we hear the same excuse of how foreign companies and Guyana will losemoney

T h e s e b u s i n e s s arrangements between MPs andforeigncompaniesgoing on for decades now, have givenGuyanesedebtinstead ofwealth,andthisisobvious based on those business terms mentioned earlier, in this case, if foreign companies don’t want to comply with Guyana’s inadequate and outdated laws, they should carry out their threats to pack up and leaveanddosoimmediately

T h e s e b u s i n e s s arrangements also make ordinary Guyanese victims of inverted, upturned, or bend-overeconomics,where Guyanese wealth of oil and resources are the investment instruments, where Guyanese resource wealth, taxdollarsandincurreddebt provides funding, where Guyanese assumes the risk and losses and where Guyanese suffer the environmental and other consequences of oil and resource operations, while the foreigners and the local leaders take the majority of thegainsandprofits.

The President who said Guyanagotthewrongendof the stick of the oil contract and he will change that, did changeit,tonowGuyanahas lost the grip of even the wrong end and now holding nostick.TheVPwhosaidhe will fight for Guyana’s patrimony and ran around with election SOPs during the elections shouting he is fightingforGuyaneserights, is now like the emperor without clothes, as the walls ofbrokenpromises,lies,and deceptions are crumbling aroundhim.

If it is true that employeesofGPCandother state entities wanted to buy sharesfromtheseentitiesfor ownership, which the VP gave to private parties instead, along with the new contract terms of oil blocks other than the Stabroek Block clearly shows the VP know exactly what Guyana needs, but doing about turns likeamarchingsoldierwhen it comes to Guyanese interests, this makes him smarter yet more dangerous than dunces as dunces don’t knowbetterunlikehim.

T h e b u s i n e s s associations’ leaders never take Guyana’s oil and resource wealth in their businessplans,makingthem theonlyonesintheworldto dosointheirowncountry In all this, the opposition leaders stay silent like dead animalcarcasseslyingonthe roadside.

Guyana’s protection from exploitation can be given a big boost if only the AttorneyGeneralworkswith the Judiciary to update and e n f o r c e G u y a n a ’s inadequate and outdated laws, instead, the AG’s loyalties are with those exploit Guyana leaving the Judiciary alone fighting for concerned Guyanese, so to this,wemustallsaywithone voice “Hail the JudiciaryFailtheLeaders”.

Regards, R.David.