Introduction
As previously indicated, today’s column wraps-up my reflections on the national debates that have so far centered on the birth of Guyana’s infant petroleum industry. As national and regional elections rapidly approach, the “noise and nonsense” elements participating in these debates have grown manic. They disregard the unjustifiable harm they do to the standing of the owners (Government), operators (oil companies), governance (Authorities, private and public) and even the broad mass of potential Guyanese beneficiaries of its new found oil wealth.
