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‘Wales best site Eastern Airlines for gas-to-shore project’ suspends operations ...Jagdeo says other sites likely to ...govt left in the dark, contribute to pollution, chemicals PAGE says passengers protected PAGE harmful to the environment 13 10 WEDNESDAY, 10th FEBRUARY, 2021 Follow or contact at: [email protected] / facebook.com/villagevoicegy / www.villagevoicegy.com US$200M in oil kitty …Royalties pegged at over US$21M; profit oil US$185M PAGE 02 One dead ...two missing in Corentyne backtrack tragedy PAGE Sharida Hussein Dead: Alwin Joseph Balboni Harihar 03 2 NEWS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2021 Flashback: The fuel hose leads from the Liza Destiny to the Cap Philippe for the transfer of Guyana’s first million barrels of crude US$200M saved in oil fund …. Royalties pegged at over US$21M; profit oil US$185M total of US$206.6 mil- the third US$4.3M and the fourth share of profit oil will increase. competitive arrangement, it was teria because if the pre-qualifi- lion in royalty payments, US$8.3M. Meanwhile, under the current agreed that Guyana’s last two cation criteria is set up in a way A profit oil and interest Meanwhile, profit oil has re- Administration, 29 companies shipments (out of five and initial- where you can disqualify the per- to Guyana has been placed in sulted in US$185M. A total of had responded to the retender ly for 2020) would be bid upon by son for lack of technical capacity the country's Natural Resources $54.9M was received in March for Request for Proposals (RFPs) the three Stabroek Block partners who is just selling already your Fund (NRF). A total of US$21.2 2020; US$35M in June 2020; to market Guyana’s share of oil which saw Hess winning. oil, something has to be seriously million has come from royalty US$46M in June 2020 and from the Liza Destiny FPSO but He said further that there have wrong…for us, it is the best price payments while US$185M has US$49M in January 2021. according to Jagdeo, the “nonsen- been several offers to purchase for oil, that is what we’re looking resulted from profit oil. Under the Production Sharing sical” evaluation criteria set by Guyana’s crude directly to elimi- at because you have hundreds of This update was provided by Agreement (PSA) governing the the Department of Energy (DE) nate marketing costs but these are Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Stabroek Block, Guyana will be saw 28 of them being disqualified still under consideration. companies literally that can take Tuesday at a press conference. receiving at a minimum two per leaving only Lukoil. Moving forward, the Vice Pres- this oil and sell it.” Guyana has received four roy- cent royalty on all oil produced in It knocked out companies al- ident said: “We are now deciding Jagdeo said that by the time alty payments to date. The first the block, plus 12.5 per cent profit ready selling Guyana’s oil such whether we just go and invite the Guyana’s next shipment is ready, received came in the amount of oil. As the capital and operating as the Stabroek Block co-ven- same companies and change the there will be a proper assessment US$4.9M; the second US$3.6M; costs are liquidated, Guyana’s tures. As a result of the lack of a so-called pre-qualification cri- of the situation and a solution. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2021 NEWS 3 ByOne Farah Bates dead ...two missing in Corentyne backtrack tragedy lwin Joseph, who went missing in the ACorentyne River after leaving Suriname for Guyana on Monday night was Wednesday morning found dead by relatives who went out on a search and rescue operation for him and two others along the Corentyne foreshore. The body was found with- in the vicinity of the #60 foreshore, about three vil- lages away from where the trio was reportedly expected to disembark. Family members said that around 06:25 hrs they discovered the man’s body washed up on the shore. “He nah get no marks of violence on body and we find him wearing a soldier colour vest and short pants. Sharida Hussein Dead: Alwin Joseph Balboni Harihar That’s all we find him with. The body nah get no marks or anything, the man’s cous- ins related.” Nandranie Shamsundar, another cousin of the young man said it’s a very heart- breaking situation and that they were hoping for the best. “I don’t know how to feel now. All the time he com- ing Guyana he does stop by me and he used to live with me for couple years. It’s very sad. We contact his Relatives of the missing trio anxiously await word from the search party wife over in Paramaribo and she’s sad too.” that she was leaving Surina- Samaroo said he had a dis- shut off and both sims were arrived, they didn’t see him when they got there, she was One of the relatives who me on Monday evening and tressing night after not see- out of service. and calls to his phone went nowhere in sight. She fur- was on the search team this that he should go to the #63 ing his mother when he ar- Samaroo, a clerk attached unanswered. ther stated that they raised morning told the village beach and wait for her as rived at the point where she to J’s Printery, has been liv- “He does normally come an alarm and conducted a Voice News that the man’s they were expected to dis- was expected to be picked ing alone with his mother by me when he come Guy- search but they have been body is “fresh”. embark at the said location. up. He noted that since in New Amsterdam since ana so we does go pick he “He fresh. He nah get no unsuccessful thus far, trying “Well, we were already on Monday night he has been the passing of his dad some up. So, when we hear he to locate her. swelling or nothing. He was our way to pick her up, and searching and moving from years ago. According to reach and we send to go kind of fat but his belly just around 7:30 last night (Mon- one point to the next hoping him, Hussein traveled to pick him up, we nah see he “We will continue to slightly high because he day) she called me in panic to find his mother at some Suriname sometime last nowhere. So, we start search search because it is very has to swallow water if he and said she was scared and other port, unfortunately, he year and was eager to re- and stuff but nothing. They sad at the moment. All she drowned. And by he went very cold and that the boat is fearing the worse as up to turn home but due to the go this morning (Tuesday) wanted was to come back in the water for so long, his drop them off on some sort late Tuesday evening fami- closure of the Guyana/Suri- time too and them nah find home, Valdez related.” ears had some blood which of sandbank and the wa- ly members and Surinam- name ferry service, she was so they come home back.” Family members said they might be because his ear- ter was getting high and ese counterparts have been unable to do so. Wanting Shamsundar said the are unsure as to why the drum burst.” she is not seeing any land. searching the river but their to return home to her son, man’s wife and his daughter boat captain would make a Police were contacted and When I reach at the beach, efforts have since proved Hussein took the backtrack live in Suriname and are in a drop off on a sandbank, but the body was immediately I didn’t see anyone and so futile. route. Samaroo said he will state of shock, given the fact according to some fisher- taken to the mortuary. A I called her phone but I got The young man said continue searching and do that he left for Guyana and men who were out on the search is still ongoing for no answer; both sims were when his mother called him whatever it takes to find his now cannot be found. the remaining two, Sharida #63 foreshore when this down. So, I called a few of and informed him that she mother. Nadira Valdez, a grand- publication visited, they are Hussein and Baboni Hari- my friends and asked them dropped off on a sandbank, Meanwhile, Nandranie daughter of the third victim, rar. to go check at other ports he was just about 10 min- Shamsundar, a relative of seventy-five-year-old, Ba- alleging that the man may Meanwhile, Joshua Sa- where she could have pos- utes away from reaching Joseph said she received boni Hariar said her grand- have hit the sandbank and maroo, 19, during an in- sibly been at that time be- the beach, however, he said a call Monday evening mother wanted to return to thought they reached the terview with the Village cause when she called me it within that time something that Joseph had arrived in Guyana for quite some time. shore. Voice News late Tuesday was all panic and emotions may have happened since he Guyana and that someone She noted that they also re- Investigations are ongoing afternoon said, his mother and she didn’t know where tried contacting her when he should pick him up from the ceived a call that Harirar and the desperate search for Sharida, had informed him she was.” arrived but the phone was #63 Beach but when they had arrived at the shore but the three continues.