Sunday, February 22, 2026

GUYANA BUDGET DEBATE

There are two vital things people seem not to know. The purpose of politics is for managing their affairs. Every politician appointed to the political apparatus has a fiduciary responsibility to work for the greater good of every citizen because the practice of politics is commissioned by a national Constitution.

GECOM COMMISSIONERS TURMOIL

There was never any PNC push back when the PPP went against the law of permanence of the GECOM appointees and routinely changed their Commissioners.

GUYANA NATIONAL BUDGET

This makes the annual budget inherently inaccurate, a system of perpetual revision in between Census reporting.

Verian Mentis-Barker

journalist, freelance writer, author,publisher

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