Before the Applause Fades: What Guyana Must Learn from Trinidad and Tobago’s Oil & Gas Trajectory

By Anthony Paul, Senior Energy and Strategy Advisor and former Director of Geology and Geophysics at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Energy (Kaieteur News) – Every rising petroleum state believes it is different – until it begins to repeat the same institutional mistakes. Trinidad and Tobago once stood where Guyana stands now: confident, cash-rich, strategically […] The post Before the Applause Fades: What Guyana Must Learn from Trinidad and Tobago’s Oil & Gas Trajectory appeared first on Kaieteur News.


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