The terrible oil contract can’t change

Aug 22, 2022 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Growing up in Guyana, I heard this saying many, many times “Boat don gan a fall e can’t tun back”. I am in sympathy with my fellow Guyanese who are crying and hollering for changes to be made in the terrible oil contract signed by the Coalition Government and Exxon, it is so lopsided in favour of Exxon, it smells of corruption and clumsiness. When my fellow Guyanese who are now screaming and hollering in Georgetown about this ridiculous oil deal, they are so loud, I can hear them all the way in New York City. The screaming, hollering, and protesting should have been done during the time of the Coalition Government before Raphael Trotman signed this awful agreement with Exxon.

I am wondering what had happened to my Bros. David, Mark, et al during the Coalition Government giveaway of Guyana’s oil wealth.  Was the energy level in their bodies so low that they couldn’t speak or was it okay for the Coalition to giveaway the oil but it is not okay for the PPP to continue with that agreement? What is good for the goose must be good for the gander.

This terrible oil contract is signed, sealed, and delivered; it will not be changed. If the PPP Government tries to change the current oil contract with Exxon, they will be out of government in a hurry either through a soft coup or hard coup or something in between, but they will be out of government.  When we hear about the “Deep State”, Exxon is part of that structure and the “Deep State” does not only run the United States of America but most of the world is controlled by the “Deep State”.

The “Deep State” consists of players like Exxon, British Petroleum (BP), Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, Citibank, Morgan Stanley Chase, Merck, etc., and what these companies want, they get. Their masters in Washington DC, London, Paris, Montreal, Brussel, and other Western European capitals accede to their demands.  British Petroleum, Obama, Biden, Hilary Clinton and their stooges in Canada and Western Europe got rid of Muammar Gaddafi and destroyed Libya. Slave trade is back in Libya.  During the overthrow of Gaddafi, dark skin Africans were beaten and driven out of Libya. Libya is now a failed nation state. When Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran was trying for a better oil deal for the people of Iran from British Petroleum in 1953, United Kingdom together with the United States of America overthrew Mosaddegh and replaced him with the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who squandered the wealth of Iran.

Believe you me in cricketing lingo, the PNC is waiting patiently in the “slip” to join with any entity including the same Exxon who they made the terrible deal with to replace the PPP Government.  It is poor judgment, in my opinion, of the Guyanese population to think Exxon will change the sweet deal they got from the Coalition Government without making huge waves in Guyana.  The leadership of the PPP knows the terrible consequences that will be meted out on them if they push Exxon hard on changing the oil contract to be fairer to the Guyanese population. The PPP is moving carefully on this issue with Exxon and I agree with them, knowing what British Petroleum did to Iran and Libya.

So when my Bro. Glenn Lall and others are screaming and hollering on Kaieteur Radio and other media outlets about changing the oil contract with Exxon, my advice to them is “Boat don gan ah fall e can’t tun back”. Any Guyanese Government that tries to change the oil contract with Exxon, “cat eat they dinner.”

I would like to commend my Bro. Glenn, for a person who came from the Island of Wakenaam without much formal education made a beautiful analogy on his show about what Guyana is getting from the bad oil contract. He broke it down like this, if Exxon was picking coconuts from a person’s property, for every hundred coconuts that Exxon picked, Exxon will get eighty seven and a half coconuts and the person who owns the property and coconut trees will only get twelve and a half coconuts. So by Bro. Glenn’s argument, I can infer that for every billion dollar worth of oil pumped out of Guyana, Exxon is getting a fat eight hundred and seventy five million and Guyana is getting a meagre two hundred and twenty five million.

With a divided society like Guyana, “Deep State”, companies like Exxon will use the racial division or border dispute that Guyana has to force any Guyanese government into submission. All those who are running their mouths off, please follow the history of big oil companies, what they did with many governments around the world. The Coalition Government signed the giveaway of Guyana’s oil and there is nothing that can be done to change it. The same way Guyanese are living with the destruction of the railroads in Guyana by the PNC in 1975, the same way, they will have to live with the giveaway of Guyana’s oil wealth in 2016 by the PNC under the guise of the Coalition Government.

Sincerely,
Habib, Z
New York City

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