Global Journalist: Guyana threatened by ‘oil curse’
One of the poorest nations in the Western hemisphere is about to be transformed. That’s because tiny Guyana is the site of one of the largest offshore oil discoveries in decades.
But as the South American nation readies for a gusher of oil cash, there are concerns the relatively peaceful and democratic nation could be changed for the worse.
Joining the program:
*Samuel Sukhnandan, senior journalist for the Guyana Times and Television Guyana.
*Raul Gallegos, associate director for consulting firm Control Risks.
*Anthony Bryan, professor at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies.
*Nick Butler, former BP plc oil executive and visiting professor at King’s College London.
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There is no curse ….its about the yellow n white skin oh and those black sellouts still serving the colonials …
Venuzala will take over the sesiqubo it is like ukraine and guyana cannot stop that it is not a member of b r i c s as other south americans countries and not even a proxy for the u s in order for the u s to even help the ocian is not in the u s border but it is in venezuela border so just stop complaining it will be better for you in the longrong😅😅
Bigbamb9n U tube video about black man its a green video
Propaganda
Guyana goverment follow america they do not want china to develop guyana as a partner one fool makes many he is earning to pay instead of paying to learn 😂😂😂
Keep Strong Gayanna Country NOW Government
what i see so far the problem is MADURO he is not willing to abide by international law thats bully tactics Guyana have every right to its territory under all lawsuit it was rule in Guyana favor veneszula is going back to the days of the boliva empire no one wants war in that region
Guyana please don't do like Trinidad when we got the two oil boom in Trinidad pnm bring 150 000 African people to vote pnm and they thief and waste and preach race now we are begging thanks to the pnm Trinidad can show the world how race can kill a country bring in 150 000 Indians give them land let them plant and be the food basket of the Caribbean ❤
so thos was six years ago so where is the curse now? the curse is we have moved up from a middle income country to an upper middle income country, world bank, and now we cant get aid, I hate this, we want never ending aid. I blame the world bank, and we are starving to loose weight ,teribble terbile
THE CITIZENS OF GUYANA IS GETTING LITTLE TO NOTHING FROM OUR OIL RESOURCES BECAUSE OF CONDITIONS OF THAT OIL CONTRACT SIGN BY OUR LEADERS WITH EXXONMOBIL IN 1999 OUR COUNTRY IS GETTING 12 AND A HALF PERCENT AND EXXONMOBIL IS GETTING 87 AND A HALF PERCENT FROM THE OIL PRODUCTION WE ARE ONLY GETTING 2 PERCENT ROYALTY NO RING FENCING OF OUR OIL BLOCKS NO METERS ON OUR OIL WELL NO FULL LIABILITY INSURANCE IN THE CASE OF AN OIL SPILL WE ARE NOT GETTING NO TAXES FROM OUR OIL RESOURCE THAT AMOUNT TO BILLIONS OF US DOLLARS BEING LOST FOR OUR COUNTRY MEANWHILE THE CITIZENS ARE GETTING LITTLE TO NOTHING LIVING FROM PAY CHEQUE TO PAY CHEQUE IF THOSE ISSUES DONT BE REVIEW TO BE RENEGOTIATE WE WILL NEVER SEE A GOOD LIFE FROM THAT OIL CONTRACT OUR OIL CONTRACT MUST BE RENEGOTIATED OR WE SHOULD HAVE A REFERENDUM NOW BEFORE ANY ELECTIONS HERE IN GUYANA COME 2025 NEXT YEAR
A homeless person winning the lottory he's disrespectfull and out of place
Guyana is always a rich country you don't know what you are saying
The people in the country has no benefit from it's richness
GUYANA WILL OVERCOME THAT CURSE WE ARE a peaceful opeople and we talked to our. CREATOR? Everyday..heis merciful. All praises are. Due to him
Why does the Guyana journalist use the word am after every short sentence? This is for the BP executive, it was my suggestion to Obama on how to cap and clean up BP spill in the Gulf in 2010, I was never paid to take both Obama and BP to court, waste of time they stole my intellectual property.
🇬🇾 I'm 🇬🇾 a 🇬🇾 Guyanese 🇬🇾 living in Guyana I am not feeling the impact of the oil in Guyana many days I cannot put food on my table things are really Hard in Guyana
Indigenous people L A N D
Guyana is all Indigenous people L A N D
Pray for wisdom. Build foundations👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Unfortunately I am unable to overlook the fact that this whole interview,or reasoning call it what you may, it's absolutely foundation on functional illiteracy,no contributor have demonstrated even any gram of common sense, simply put just blowing poison gas/breath.
COnstitution of Guyana 1980Act no 02 of the co-operative Republic of Guyana 1980
COnstitution of America of the United States of America
North Carolina State constitution
Commonwealth of the United Nations.
This guy needs to know Amm means mango in hindi so embarrassing
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American are saying guyana is a poor country. But i am wondering why people want to invest there.
Global journalist at least you got one thing wrong about Venezuela so far you did not speak the truth why Venezuela economy collapse United States is the culprit for that carry on
Where did this gentleman got that figure from about 50/50% ?
Pls Guyana anybody phone number i need pls note my number 9791079205
I am Exporter need genuine butter any body have candect number pls
These people are Guyanese! Not Guyanan🤣🙄. Ugh!!!
Gallegos is very disrespectful. He categorizes Guyana's Oil wealth as a "Homeless Person winning the lottery". What about the people who become suddenly rich with drug money in Columbia where he is? These people are ridiculous. Even the Guyanese Panelist is making assinine statements that encourage this type of disrespect. He does not even correct the moderator that the correct term is Guyanese not Guyanan. Just shows you how much they know.
My comment is on the yam too much to eat it's free in Guyana
Wow it's amazing how everybody here only knows how to criticize but put one of you guys on the reporters bench and I'll bet not one of you criticizing these reporters could even answer one question losers losers
Guyana is not a poor country……it's a blessed country …
It is indeed annoying that Mr. Samuel Sukunand a senior journalist keeps saying AHM during the interview. But, overall it is great interview taking away AHM..
Anthony Bryant you are not here in Guyana how could you say that Guyanese don't have faith in the former opposition party PPP to run the oil & gas sector? Guyanese don't trust the grainja regime and you know it but won't admit that. I want to remind you that the PPP was the governing party for 23 years and grainja had audits done in the government offices held under the PPP and no money was missing, misappropriated or irregularities were found as against what is happening now under the illegal grainja regime rampant corruption, lies, deceit and above all the total disregard of the Guyana Constitution and court rulings so get your facts right before you speak rubbish
Guyana South America
Bottom line is this illegal grainja govt and the Trotman person who signed the contract sold out the Guyanese people who will not benefit from the oil under this grainja regime they have their own interest at heart and not the welfare of the Guyanese people
Guyana South America
What skunt I watching hay mon 😒😒😒😒. Wtf tell y'all Guyana is fuvking poor…..look I'm trying to enter the new year in peace 🙄🙄🙄
I hope he has his day job should be fired
How much yam did he eat
Interesting video
The Arab Gulf countries are all doing and they were poorer, so why do you think that Guyana will face trouble? As far as I can tell, the government has been planning to circumvent any issues, and is doing a good job at it. They have already done their research on possible mishaps from other countries, and have employed experts.
Amm amm amm amm say
from some of the comments here u can clearly see how the people in Guyana are illiterate, they're just not prepared to listen to anything good concerning the benefits of guyana ,no wonder the country is a shithole.
14:33 why he talking like there isnt institutions in place to teach us. why yall shaming guyana like this?…WE ARE NOT A POOR COUNTRY!!!!
how wicked and bad minded of yall, only showing the bad parts of guyana. show the good parts, show the parts with the malls and theatres and hotels and big houses. i want know is who tell america we poor
Why the hell you putting negativity on my country.You know our national song.We we will cherish and defend forever the state that gave us birth.
Guyana both country and people are no different from any other humans on the planet, Guyanese crawl, Guyanese walk and Guyanese run…..I am in full support of this country becoming the 51 state of America and that is going to be a game changer needed for my guyanesse people…..
We will be surely robbed. We poor man have to pass far.