53 days left for your finger

Jul 08, 2025 News

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By Glenn Lall in his own words 

Kaieteur News – Fifty-three days remain before Guyanese head to the polls to elect a new government. Yes 53 days before this one finger decides if you continue to live like beggars sitting on an ocean of oil, or you stand up and demand a minimum 25% royalty on that ballot paper.

Because what I have been witnessing ever since we started pumping that oil, is a set of leaders who just don’t give a damn what comes our way, or how we live from that massive oil blessing. It’s true, they are tricksters. Deceivers. Boldface liars. Con men and women, all bent not to serve us, but to serve themselves. I can’t be clearer than that.

By now, every Guyanese knows that Exxon didn’t just gangster us with that criminal oil contract, they also gangstered us with the Stabroek Block too.

These are facts, since October 2023, Guyana was legally entitled to collect 20% of the Stabroek Block — yes, that same massive 6.6-million-acre oil-rich block that stretches from the Suriname border straight to the Venezuelan border. But instead of collecting back what belongs to the people of this country, what did the PNC and PPP do? They gave ExxonMobil a full one-year extension. Yes, an entire bonus year to sit on it, sleep on it, study it, suss it out, identify the best portion, the most oil-rich section, keep for themselves, and then hand back the dried-up, leftovers to Guyana.

You really understand what those parasites did to this country there? Them had a golden opportunity to take back that 20%, auction it off, and pull Guyana out of poverty, but they left it in the hands of ExxonMobil to cherry-pick the best part, and dump the junk on us.

But wait — hear this.

That one-year extension expired in October 2024. And since then, my reporters have been grilling Jagdeo and Vickram Bharrat over and over: Where is the damn 20%? All the reporters got was one lie, one twist, one excuse after another, and never a straight, honest answer.

When last week, Kaieteur News combed through one of the oil companies’ financial statements, and bam, right there in black and white it said: Awaiting government approval to relinquish the 20%. Yes, they are still waiting for the government to collect that 20%.

And guess what happened, the very next day after that headline hit the nation? Vickram Bharrat suddenly jump up and say, we already collected it, that headline is there too. Now, let me be real with you Guyana, I don’t believe a single word that man says. And here’s why: If Guyana had truly collected that 20%, Bharrat Jagdeo would have been boasting non-stop — week after week — at every one of his press conferences.

But what we hearing? Nothing but silence. You know what that means? We ain’t get back a damn thing. Or if we did, it’s pure dry rocks and dead zone. Let me paint that clearer: Imagine a crook gangster your family a huge rich gold field. And even though the family had the legal rights to reclaim 20% of it, the parents, instead of stepping in, gave the thief more time to walk around and pick the best areas. Then, the thief hand back a piece with nothing but bush and stone. What kind of parents would do that? You call that leadership? Or you call that betrayal?

Now, another year almost gone, and still, no proper update, no clear map, no audit. Nothing to show where this 20% is or what is in it. And from what I know, and from what Guyana is NOT being told, if we did get anything back, prepare to suck salt. Because Exxon done gone with the cream of the crop.

What is left for Guyana can’t even light a flambeau or a lamp for us to see what these Parasites doing to our future. And guess what? The same dirty trick these parasites played with the Stabroek Block, boy oh boy, they have also played with the owners of the Kaieteur Oil Block.

Guyana was set to take back a major portion of that block too, since last year. But hear what Jagdeo, that parasite did. Quietly behind our backs, handed the owners of that block an extension all the way to 2026. Yes, another wide-open door for them to do exactly what Exxon did — drill, search, locate the sweet spots, take the cream, and then hand back Guyana the dried-up ends with stale milk inside to feed on.

This is what these parasites are doing to your future. Selling out the country one oil block at a time, while calling it “investment.” Now you understand why these chaps don’t want real oil experts to help us?  Because real experts would expose their parasitic moves and games. Real experts would protect me and you, yes protect Guyana, and not ExxonMobil and the owners of that Kaieteur oil Block.

53 days left, Guyana. 53.

This finger in your hand is not just for voting—it’s your power, your voice, your future. God Bless you with it, demand that 25% royalty on the ballot paper. And if it’s not there, you know the rest — give them this…

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• ExxonMobil, Glenn Lall, Guyana Elections, PNC, PPP, Stabroek Block

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