Accountability Watch

Guyana EITI 2021 Report

Last year, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) suspended Guyana from its membership because of the delay in compiling and publishing its 2020 annual report.

Despite strong constitutional, legislative and regulatory systems to fight corruption, meaningful progress continues to elude us. (Part II)

In our article of 9 October 2023, we had stated that the award of the contract for the construction of sluice and pump station at Belle View, West Bank Demerara, violated the Procurement Act for two main reasons, the contractor’s lack of the requisite experience in undertaking works of this nature as stipulated in the bid documents; and the contractor’s bid was the third lowest responsive bid.

Performance of the economy in 2023

Last Monday was Budget Day 2024 – the day that everyone was looking forward to for an assessment of the performance of the country’s economy in 2023 and its state of affairs at the end of that year.

The 2022 audited accounts of Ministries/Departments/Regions

In last week’s article, we referred to the exchanges between Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-law Christopher Ram, and the Attorney General as to whether the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) has been overstated to the extent of ExxonMobil’s subsidiaries tax liabilities that are required to be paid over to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

The 2022 audited public accounts (Part II)

Before proceeding with today’s article, we would like to comment on the exchanges between Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-law Christopher Ram, and the Attorney General in relation to the apparent overstatement of the balance on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) account.

The 2022 audited public accounts

On 11 December 2023, the audited public accounts for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2022 along with the report of the Auditor General thereon were presented to the National Assembly.

The Court of Appeal ruling on Election Petition 88/2020

During the period between the passing of the vote of no confidence in the previous Government on 21 December 2018 and the swearing in of the President Irfaan Ali on 2 August 2020, we had carried a total of 40 articles on the election-rated matters, including the outcomes of the various court cases that were filed.

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