In considering the 2020 US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Guyana I discerned three inclusions that in the present context are worthy of comment. To me the reports are predominantly fact-based but one could glean some policy positions by what is included and the rare value judgment. The first inclusion refers to the arbitrary arrest of Christopher Jones, a senior member of the opposition, and the search of his home ‘although Jones had a court-issued injunction preventing the search’. The second is a value observation about the role of the media in post-elections Guyana and the third is the comment on the nature of the present government.
