No one should discount TK analysis on the 2% royalty. TK is highly regarded as a professor in economics. He may be right, but it could be the way the coalition govt wanted it so that Exxon could pay them the extras under the table.
If TK was a blue-eyed Yankee who wrote that piece in SN, Guyanese would pay much attention.
No matter what TK has written in the past or hope to write in the future, he will not get the respect from Guyanese crabdogs.