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Payara: Ducking and Defending Should Be Adjusting and Correcting

Aug 21, 2020 Editorial

The Guyana government has signaled where it stands with Canadian consultant, Ms. Redford. It is ready to rationalize and defend. It is not enough.
Look at us: we are so far gone in our reciprocal suspicions about the tricks of the other side, ulterior motives, and hidden agendas that there is NOT A SINGLE Guyanese-born citizen, who is found acceptable to help us bridge our divide, make us agree to sit in the same room, and have a civilized constructive conversation.
There is NOT ONE Guyanese that is trusted enough to bring us together to talk together and help us work together for the betterment of this nation.
There is something wrong about them, feared about them. That man or woman may have said a word or taken a principled position at some time for some issue that was viewed to favor the other side. That is the end of any consideration, simply unacceptable. So, we look to Mars for any aliens available to help us out of our troubles. Except this time, we did not go into outer space, we went to Canada.
From Canada, we got one Ms. Alison Redford. Since so much has been said about her, mostly critical, we neither revisit nor elaborate further. But we will say this: Ms. Redford, the consultant chosen from Canada, comes with baggage. It is the most savaging of ironies that we will immediately reject any Guyanese, who possesses a speck of, sometimes misplaced and mistaken, suspicion to help us out of disputed and knotty situations; but here we are ready to welcome Ms. Redford with open arms, despite her record that speaks negatively.
What does this say about us? What does it say about our political double standards and the willingness of leadership to place ourselves in double jeopardy on a most crucial opportunity to get things on a more even keel with Exxon? We will not give our own a chance, because there is the risk that they will be biased to our interests, party interests. If this is not an expression of continuing Guyanese submission to a new form of colonizing, then we do not know what is, especially when our diaspora was touted several Saturdays ago as being vital to the way forward.
As the developments regarding the choice of the Canadian consultant solidify, there are some other things that can be said, which reveal how self-destructive we have been and continue to be.
We are hung up for years on end over agreeing on confirmations of a Chancellor of the Judiciary, and a Chief Justice. And there we are stuck immovably. We would still be stuck in the mud and filth of elections manipulations and elections impotencies, if it were not for the sweeping assertiveness, the unrelenting pressures, of the foreign diplomatic contingent. They were, no doubt, reading the guiding scripts from home.
And now on this destiny-defining crossroad with ExxonMobil and Payara, we repeat and exhibit the same feebleness that courses through elections strength and integrity, the choice of judiciary leadership, and other areas too numerous to mention. We entrust reviewing of the Payara Field Development Plan and, by extension, our partnership with ExxonMobil to someone with a slippery background, who stands on the shakiest of grounds.
The Payara review is our chance to project the formidable character of Guyanese determination, if only to get this one right, to make Exxon pause what has been an uninterrupted charge all over us.
Before moving forward, a couple of things must be said. First, we will not fell Exxon and bring it to its knees. Since we lack the required reservoir of resources that could compel Exxon to do an about face, then what we are forced to settle for is a nip here and a sting there. That is, to slow it down and to make it listen and learn that we are serious, and we mean business. We do not have any heavy artillery, only little slingshots. If we use them continuously and wisely, we have a chance.
Ms. Redford will not give us that chance. Her selection can neither be rationalized nor defended. We need the best. She is not. Move on.

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