The ‘idea’ of an EITI, Guyana’s membership to and its suspension from the EITI

Last Monday’s sitting of the Public accounts Committee (PAC), the Auditor General’s report on the procurement, storage and distribution of COVID-19 supplies was discussed. It covers the six-month period March-August 2020, the outer date coinciding with the end of the APNU+AFC Administration. It is unclear why a longer period was not chosen, considering that the report was issued in September 2021. Had this been done, the report would have benefitted from coverage of the storage and distribution of 120,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine received during the period March – August 2021 from the COVAX facility and the French Government.