OIL: International Energy Agency (IEA) says to halt all new oil, gas projects

===  Guyana will suffer environmentally, economically if it does not heed advice – Janki

By Kiana Wilburg

 May 19, 2021 – Kaieteur News – If the world is to achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE) by 2050, then plans for new oil and gas projects must come to a halt and drillers must rely on existing assets from today. This blunt message was noted in a bombshell 227-page report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The report comes as a huge shocker to many environmentalists and industry stakeholders who often branded the Paris-based organisation as being sympathetic to the oil industry, oftentimes underestimating the significance of renewable energy.       

OPINION: David Jessop | Connectivity and the future of CARICOM

  By David Jessop

The appointment of Dr Carla Barnett as the next secretary general of CARICOM should be an inflection point, a moment when the institution, and more importantly its member states rise to the challenge of delivering the post-pandemic decisions that could propel the regional integration process into the 21st century.

Whether Dr Barnett, importantly the first woman and the first Belizean to lead the regional institution, can negotiate a way out of the organisation’s inability to act because of its lack of executive authority, candidly explain, or find a way around commitments that are made at summit after summit and then not delivered by its member states, time will tell.   

Demographics: China’s population growing at slowest rate in generations

Helen Davidson in Taipei and Vincent Ni – Tue 11 May 2021 04.46 BST THE GUARDIAN UK.

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Census data reveals demographic timebomb, adding pressure on Beijing to boost incentives for couples to have more children and avert an irreversible decline.

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China has reported the slowest population growth since the early 1960s, despite scrapping the one-child policy in 2015 to encourage more births and stave off a looming demographic crisis.

Guyana SPEAKS – Under The Influence of a Guyanese Heritage – 30th May 2021 – Virtual Event

GUYANA SPEAKS: Sunday, 30th May 2021 at 2pm BST / 9am ET / 9am GYT. 

Please register for the next Guyana SPEAKS event by clicking on the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guyana-speaks-under-the-influence-of-a-guyanese-heritage-tickets

. TICKETS ARE FREE

Our distinguished speakers – Dr Jim Thakoordin (UK), Dudley Charles (USA) and Jane Thakoordin (UK) – will be talking about how their art and/or activism has been influenced by their Guyanese heritage.

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GUYANA: Gold Mining: Secret contract exposed… Chinese company pays US$5 rent per acre + Duty-Free Imports

— Chinese company pays US$5 rent per acre for Guyana’s largest gold claim

Aurora Mine – Guyana

May 18, 2021 – Kaieteur News – A Chinese company – Zijin Mining Group – which acquired the largest gold mines operation in Guyana from Canadian owned Aurora Gold Mines pays US$5 or G$1,000 rental for every acre of land it has in its claim.

The generous concession comes as a result of a contract that was inked (by the PPP government) in November 2011 with Aurora Gold Mines, then owned by Canadian Guyana Goldfields, and since sold to the Chinese mining group. 

BUSINESS: Toronto loses almost120,000 jobs and 3480 businesses in 2020 – by BlogTO

• This is how many businesses closed down in Toronto last year – by BlogTO

Toronto Skyline at night taken from Center Island.

With a staggering 119,890 jobs lost, Toronto just saw its largest single-year employment decline in recorded history — and that was before the current eight-week-long (and counting) shutdown of all non-essential businesses and services.

We have the city’s 2020 Toronto Employment Survey to thank for this information, plus a whole bunch of other unsettling economic facts.         

Buxton-Friendship Museum ZOOM meeting on “International Museum Day” – May 18th 2021

BUXTON / FRIENDSHIP MUSEUM, ARCHIVES & CULTURE CENTER (BFMACC)

Buxton Museum- Student visitors – click to enlarge

As we observe “International Museum Day” Tuesday May 18th 2021, the BUXTON / FRIENDSHIP MUSEUM, ARCHIVES & CULTURE CENTER (BFMACC) joins in celebrating another milestone of such an important day around the world. The INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS (ICOM) selects each year for International Museum Day, a theme that is at the heart of the concerns of society. The theme this year which we have adopted is “The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine”.

This theme will be discussed at our virtual symposium on “International Museum Day” Tuesday May 18th 2021, starting 6.00pm. Also, to celebrate this day we have invited the villages school’s children, to visit our MU:SEUM, ARCHIVES & CULTURE CENTER (BFMACC) to experience our accomplishments to date. The Covid guidelines will be followed.

READ MORE: FOR PRESS RELEASE ON INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 5 18 21 pdf

JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING : ZOOM INVITATION FOR IMD 5 18 2021

GUYANA: The Audacity – Think on That – By Mosa Telford

By Mosa Telford— May 15, 2021 – Stabroek News

Directors of Superior Concrete Inc., a foreign company in Guyana, disrespected Housing Minister Colin Croal, Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority Sherwyn Greaves and staff of the CH&PA’s Enforcement Department. Minister Croal and CH&PA officials visited a site in Houston Estates to issue an order to Superior Concrete Inc., which was illegally constructing a concrete factory.

Not only was the first Cease and Desist order destroyed by one who had the gall, but on another visit, our officials were not only told to leave because it was private property, but that the arrogant ones at Superior Concrete Inc. did not wish to speak to them.         

BOOK: Top author Richard Cohen stirs anger with ‘too white’ history – The Guardian. UK

Richard Cohen’s new book, which has reportedly been dropped by his US publisher despite extensive additions, is still set for British release next month

From left: abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, educator and writer Booker T Washington and American writer and sociologist WE Du Bois. Photograph: Getty

Richard Brooks— Sun 16 May 2021 06.15 BST – The GUARDIAN UK.

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It has taken nearly a decade to research and write, and runs to more than 750 pages. But The History Makers, described as “an epic exploration of those who write about the past”, has itself been rewritten after its author failed to take into account enough black historians, academics and writers.

GUYANA: Oil crookedness and British contempt – By GHK Lall

Kaieteur News:  May 16, 2021  Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

I used to be encouraged by Guyana’s oil discoveries. That has disappeared. It is because those oil discoveries have been accompanied by disturbing political leadership developments. I try hard to be optimistic for Guyanese, but sense for them an impoverishing fate similar to that of Angolans, Nigerians, and Iraqis.

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This oil that was long dreamed about as ‘being there’ is now reality, bringing numerous expectations, great encouragements. And though I have no stake on how it is utilised, there was the interest that much good would accrue to all Guyana. Presently and given the deceptions of Guyana’s major political leaders (no exceptions), any projections about even a fraction of the good that can be had from the nation’s oil finds look bleak.