Raising… the stakes

News that a massive explosion was set off at a gas station in the heart of commercial Georgetown shocked your Eyewitness to his core!! It was bad enough that a car buying gazolene – with a family inside – was caught in the conflagration and was completely destroyed – killing a poor, eight-year-old girl!! But this wasn’t no accidental explosion – such as we’ve experienced from defective cooking gas bottles – but one deliberately set by a “Spanish looking” man!! And it was also no ordinary “channa bomb” that we know about – but what’s today called an “Improvised Explosive Device -IED” that are used by terrorists!!
“What the heck?!!” thought your Eyewitness…this was – in the immortal world of Yogi Gerra – like déjà vu all over again!! Wasn’t it back in May we had one of these IEDs hurled at the police outpost in East Ruimveldt? And by two “Spanish speaking men”- along with a named Brazilian dude?? And then a little while later – not too far away on Mandela Ave – another IED was hurled at the GPL Substation there!! Now from what your Eyewitness knows – from passing that substation rather regularly – there are fuel storage tanks that could’ve been set ablaze!! And what a blaze that would’ve been – visible for miles!! Luckily, whoever threw the bomb was no prospect for fielding on the boundary of a cricket field – and as with the E Ruimveldt Police Outpost – just some innocuous damage was inflicted.
But as with the IED at the mid-t,own gas station, it’s clear that the intent was to create fear and mayhem in the Guyanese populace. At that time, Mad Maduro was in the throes of “annexing” Essequibo – and your Eyewitness had pointed out we shouldn’t rule out the possibility that just as his Sindicatos were shooting at our GDF at our border, his embedded Tren de Argua plants might be behind the bombings.
The Police had issued wanted bulletins for the men for “acts of terrorism” – and they later picked up a Guyanese bus driver who’d transported them. The latter told the police the Brazilian had told him the Spanish speaking men had come to Guyana to do “bad things”!! So now we have a Spanish speaking man who chose to bomb a gas station not only dispensing gasolene, but with dozens of filled cooking-gas bottles!! The biggest Bang!! And what’s the context?? The US is closing their naval noose around Mad Maduro’s neck – and he’s hit out at T&T and us for “facilitating the Yankees”!!
We were never informed whether the police ever apprehended the first bombers – but we hope they’ve improved their intel-gathering capabilities in the Venezuelan community.
They ain’t all what they claim – poor refugees!!

…our oil profile
We’ve been complaining about the paltry 14.5% of revenues we get for our oil – because of the shi**y contract the PNC signed with ExxonMobil!! But in addition to spending those funds as wisely as we can, we can also increase the net amount earned by selling our oil directly to the market – rather than using middlemen -who gotta be paid a percentage!!
Now you’d think the govt would’ve done this from the beginning – since we know buyers like India etc that would take our prized Brent crude!! But selling oil ain’t the same as selling bora -the present level of our sales expertise!! At the 1 million bpd output we’ll soon reach, we’re talking about filling a million-barrel tanker every week!! Oil’s sold at “spot” – immediate delivery – or “futures” which can – and are – traded among oil speculators!
So now that the government’s finally decided to take the plunge, it’s prudent that they’ve emphasized the need for our own people to be trained!!

…hackles
While the government’s chosen to comment on the US naval buildup in the Caribbean Sea from our national security concerns vis-a-vis Mad Maduro’s threat, PNC leader Norton has announced he’s opposed to US intervention!!
Is this the party’s position?