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nities are like sunrises, if you wait too
long you miss them. You can therefore
be assured that we will pursue this matter
aggressively,” he said.
Island production has in recent years
fallen to less than 100,000 barrels daily.
Petrotrin, the major refinery which produced
oil and petroleum products for
much of the Caribbean trade bloc in
recent decades, closed late last year
under the weight of debt, overstaffing
and age among other issues, putting
a massive dent in a sector, which had
been producing oil for more than 100
years.
Down to the southeast in Guyana,
meanwhile, ExxonMobil along with
partners Hess Oil of the US and Nexen
of China first discovered world class oil
deposits in mid 2015, setting up a mad
rush to Guyana by global oil companies
such as Repsol, Tullow, Total and
Chevrol among others largely because
the Guyana basin has lived up to predications
by the US Geological Surveys
about holding up to 14 billion barrels of
oil and being the second largest undeveloped
oilfield in the world. Hammerhead
1, one of the more recent wells discovered,
neighbors a concession owned
by the UK’s Tullow oil and Eco Atlantic.
The two say it is just a matter of time
before oil gushes to the surface as Hammerhead
is one of the largest of Exxon’s
discoveries.
Exxon is planning to begin actual
oil production by March next year but
officials have said that it could be as
early at October 2019 as the preparatory
work is well advanced and the basin is
the gift that keeps on giving. A massive
Floating Production Storage and
Offloading (FPSO) vessel will be here
from a Singapore shipyard by June to
position itself to store and distribute oil.
The company said last month that sub
sea work has already begun to connect
wells via umbilical chords as it races to
develop its highly successful oilfield.
Initial production is slated at 120,000
barrels daily, moving up to 750,000 by
2025.
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Mark Bynoe, director of Energy at
the Ministry of the Presidency, Guyana.
DPI Guyana
By Alexandra Simon
Atlanta-raised rapper 21 Savage was
arrested and detained by immigration
officials last week. On Feb. 3,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agents apprehended the
Grammy-nominated rapper, whose
birth name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-
Joseph, for allegedly living in the U.S.
illegally.
In a statement released by ICE, first
reported by CNN, a spokesperson said
that the 26-year-old rapper now sits
in a Georgia detention facility where
officials expect to proceed with deportation.
“Mr. Abraham-Joseph is presently
in ICE custody in Georgia and has
been placed into removal proceedings
before the federal immigration
courts,” the spokesperson said in the
statement.
The artist was born in the United
Kingdom, but moved to the states
with his mother and siblings when he
was 7 years old, where he spent most
of his life in Atlanta, according to
statement released by his attorneys.
After a brief visit to the U.K. in 2005,
he returned under another visa, which
eventually expired beyond his control,
according to a statement by his Atlanta
based legal team Kuck and Baxter.
“Unfortunately, in 2006 Mr. Abraham
Joseph’s legal status expired
through no fault of his own,” the
statement read. “Mr. Abraham-Joseph,
like almost two million of his immigrant
child peers, was left without
immigration status as a young child
with no way to fix his immigration
status. These “Dreamers” come from
all walks of life and every ethnicity.”
The statement went on to add to
that the rapper has never concealed
his immigration status, and claims
that the artist, who is currently being
held with no bond, is a target because
there were no preceding issues leading
up to his arrest.
“Mr. Abraham-Joseph was placed
into deportation proceedings after his
arrest, he was not in deportation proceedings
prior to this detention by
ICE,” the statement read. “DHS has
known his address since the filing of
a U visa application in 2017. He has
never hidden from DHS or any of its
agencies.”
The arrest came as a shock to many
of the rappers fans and the entertainment
industry, and reignited the
already steady spotlight on the controversial
immigration agency.
Currently there are multiple petitions
for the rappers release, one by
national immigration advocacy group
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
(BAJI) — which has a New York chapter.
A petition created by the group
currently has over 300,000 signatures
.