Dear Editor,
There is an awful lot going on in Guyana, and much of it surrounds the oil industry. The mighty oil industry has so consumed the empty minds of some in our midst that they have made a business out of it. It has led to an increase in sales of some tabloids, while others get the attention they crave.
Hitherto, we were a backwater country with no future and no hope; now that The Almighty has blessed us with oil, we have suddenly caught the eyes of many persons, who do not necessarily have our interest at heart. They have positioned themselves as consultants on oil and gas when some of whom have barely got a high school education. When this strategy did not work, they turned to the so-called technocrats for advice on the way forward. How pathetic!
These so-called technocrats, who do not live here, are all doom and gloom for the oil industry, and for us who benefit from the proceeds of oil. They are on a trajectory of a “what if” and the worst-case scenario, an oil spill, the sky falling down in Guyana, and the coming of the apocalypse. It is all about the negatives of the oil industry and all the bad things that it entails.
The PNC’s views and prognosis are even more extreme, to say the least. Everything is bad about oil, from its extraction to the utilization of the proceeds of oil, and nothing good can come out of the discovery of oil in Guyana. Now that they are not in power, oil has brought a bad taste in their mouths, and has all reached its finality in that sinister note to their tune.
So, with this mindset, one would come to the realization that some are deeply entrenched in bringing Guyana down on its knees in that begging mode we have dug ourselves into under the PNC Regime. I close by saying the stupidity is indeed stupendous, looking at the way some are thinking.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams
