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Vol. 30, Issue 22 BROOKLYN EDITION May 31–June 6, 2019
Happy Independence
Lesley Dowridge-Collins, CG Barbara Atherly, and Ambassador Rudolph M. Ten-
Pow cut the cake to celebrate Guyana’s 53rd Independence Anniversary in the
Rotunda at Brooklyn Borough Hall. See story on Page 3. Photo by Tangerine Clarke
By Nelson A. King
Despite losing to Haitian
American Farah Louis in the
special election on May 14 for
City Council representative for
the 45th Council District in
Brooklyn, Caribbean American
Monique Chandler-Waterman
says she will again oppose
Louis in the Democratic Primary
on June 15.
Chandler-Waterman, whose
parents hail from Barbados
and Jamaica, was first runnerup
to Louis in a field of eight
candidates in the special election.
“I’m running for City Council
because our community
— and the entire city — needs
an activist and organizer in
the same mold, and with the
same conviction and energy,
Continued on Page 8
By Bert Wilkinson
Guyana’s State Assets Recovery
Agency (SARA) Wednesday
said it has launched a detailed
probe to determine whether corruption
played any part in the
previous government rushing in
2015 to award two oil blocks to
hitherto unknown oil companies
and individuals days after American
oil giant ExxonMobil signaled
it had found large deposits of
oil and gas and less than a week
before general elections.
Deputy Director, Aubrey Retemeyer
said authorities are determined
to find out who might
have profited from the sales of
the Kaieteur and Canje oil blocks
that lie right next to the Stabroek
block where ExxonMobil has far
found 13 wells flush with oil and
gas as it rushes to begin oil production
as early as November.
Exxon estimates that the blocks
so far contain nearly seven billion
barrels of oil and has said
that it has not experienced such
a strike rate of successful wells
Continued on Page 12
Chandler-Waterman prepares for another run
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Probe to determine corruption
in Guyana oil sector
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