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Vol. 33, Issue 7 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN February 18-24, 2022
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Activists press for better deal
for Republic of Guyana
By Bert Wilkinson
Two regional leaders and one
from Africa attended Guyana’s
now much vaunted annual
energy conference this week but
even as they urged the country
to ensure it gets its fair share
from its oil and gas resources,
the head of ExxonMobil merely
noted all their warnings while
boasting that the Guyana basin
was perhaps the best in the
world and will produce billions
of barrels of oil for the company
in the coming years.
Darren Woods, Exxon’s chief
executive boasted and bragged
about the local basin in the
presence of Barbadian Prime
Minister, Mia Mottley, President
Chan Santokhi of neighboring
Suriname and Ghanaian President
Nana Akufo-Addo pointing
out that the number of
successful wells it has found
offshore Guyana since 2015 has
not been matched by its work
anywhere else in the world. He
put the global oil and gas sector
on notice that the 30 gushing
wells found in the past six
years are only just the beginning
of unprecedented drilling
success the company has
achieved in the largest and
most-resource rich CARICOM
member nation.
As police kept protesters at
bay who were pressing for better
production sharing arrangements,
increased royalty payments
and insurance coverage
for offshore assets, Woods said
national daily oil production
has shot up from nothing per
day six years ago to 340,000
barrels currently. The basin so
far has more than 10 billion
barrels of oil. This is expected
to rise exponentially when two
more oilfields — Payara and
Yellowtail are brought into production
in the next three years
alongside producers, Liza-1 and
2.
“Our collective success here
is unmatched in modern history.
Since 2015. This progress
is virtually unprecedented. In
just 15 years, Guyana’s production
has gone from nothing to
potentially more than 1 million
barrels per day. Since 2015,
more than 11 percent cent of
the conventional oil discovered
NYIC Director of Health Policy Seongeun Chun speaks about the vulnerabilities immigrant
New Yorkers face due to a lack of healthcare access. New York Immigration Coalition
Immigrant advocates rally for
passage of Coverage for All
By Nelson A. King
The New York Immigration
Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella
policy and advocacy organization
for more than 200 groups
in New York State, and the
African Services Committee
(ASC) on Friday rallied
together in Harlem demanding
healthcare for Black immigrants
in New York through
the passage of the Coverage
4 All bill.
According to NYIC, leaders
from both organizations
spoke about the need to pass
the legislation, and how the
pandemic has exposed inequities
in healthcare coverage
especially for immigrant New
Yorkers.
NYIC told Caribbean Life
that impacted members from
the surrounding community
shared their struggles with
a lack of healthcare access
before and during the pandemic.
The rally came at the start
of Black History Month to kick
off a call to action to protect
those most vulnerable from a
lack of healthcare access.
“More than two years of a
global pandemic and our state
has still not contended with
the disproportionate impact
the pandemic is having on
low-income Black and Brown
communities across the state,”
said Murad Awawdeh, NYIC’s
executive director.
“Black New Yorkers and
immigrant New Yorkers, many
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