Court is only option to suspend Exxon contract

Moderator Christopher Ram (at podium) listens to questions being posed to Ramon Gaskin by an attendee.

A legal challenge is the only recourse to suspend the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) signed between the Guyana Government and ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and its partners, according to analyst Ramon Gaskin.

“Any Guyanese who is sufficiently aggrieved could approach the courts to look at this matter. Anybody can do it. You can do it yourself if you want to… Once there is illegality, you can go to the courts and get the judges to pronounce,” Gaskin said on Tuesday, when he launched his new political party at the National Library.

“In the same agreement, it says that even new governments can’t change it, so eventually you will have to go to the court to get it adjudicated. The court is the only way,” he added.