The meat we eat – municipal disgrace
Yes man. Of course! It is still “our” oil. Even though Raphael Trotman was influenced or instructed to sign off on a most lopsided, foreign-company, agreement in 2016. When the Brigadier-President’s administration was just beginning to feel real authority. And power.
So what makes those hydrocarbon resources – gas inclusive – “ours” if we ourselves do not harvest the resource? Well it’s the same principle of “ownership” that rendered past generations silent when our bauxite ore – earning multiple millions – was being mined, managed and being shipped out by the Canadians. Even now “others” continue that but still the bauxite is “ours”. Right?
During the first two/three years of this now near-30-year old column, late owner Editor-in–Chief David de Caires used to – teasingly – refer to `a Fenty waffle’. I hope not to be vague with these brief observations. Which actually might not be that original. For even as I’ve misplaced a quote from a Stabroek News (SN) editorial which I appreciated, a Ronald Bostwick letter in SN last Friday beat me to it with his very reasoned analysis and request related to our oil and gas status. And the dilemma initiated by the Brigadier-President’s administration’s mighty misstep in 2016.
