Auditor General’s Reports – More words than value
-Business and Economic Commentary by Christopher Ram Introduction Mr Deodat Sharma, Auditor General has delivered his report on the 2025 public accounts.
2026 Mid-Year Report: Beyond the NIS numbers
Business and Economic Commentary by Christopher Ram The 2026 Mid-Year Report states that NIS received about $24.5 billion in the first half of the year against expenditure of $21.9 billion.
Mid-year Report – Confusion: Housing Report, Finance Ministry and Ashni Singh
Business and Economic Commentary by Christopher Ram On September 17, 2026, on chrisram.net, I published a letter entitled “CHPA and its Performance,” raising questions about the quality of financial and performance reporting by the Central Housing and Planning Authority.
Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded: Column 201
Time for the Sanctity of Contract Circus to come to an end President Irfaan Ali recycles the argument so often that it is now official doctrine: the 2016 Stabroek Block Petroleum Agreement is a bad deal for Guyana, but “sanctity of contract” prevents renegotiation.
The Road to First Oil – Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil Minded
Column 200: Sovereignty in the Age of Oil Introduction The series began on May 26, 2017 as Oil and gas – The New Economic Horizon and was expected to run for twenty-five weeks.
Road to First Oil – Every Man Woman and Child Must Become Oil – Minded Column No. 199
A Refinery for Guyana: Big thinking, bigger risks “We cannot have crude oil and don’t have security of supply.”
Road to First Oil – Every Man Woman and Child Must Become Oil-MindedColumn No. 198
From 12.5% to Nearly 40% – How Long Can the Good Times Last? – Part 4: Conclusion Introduction Last week’s column ended with Professor Clive Thomas’s estimate that wastage, incompetence, mismanagement and corruption consume 20% of public expenditure.
Road to First Oil – Every Man Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded Column No. 197
From 12.5% to Nearly 40% – How Long Can the Good Times Last? – Part 3 Having promised renegotiation and abandoned it on taking office, President Ali offered the country a substitute.
Road to First Oil – Every Man Woman and Child Must Become Oil – Minded Column No. 196
From 12.5% to nearly 40% – How long can the good times last? Part II of II (but see note) Part I welcomed President Irfaan Ali’s announcement that Guyana’s entitlement from the Stabroek Block production has risen from 12.5% to approximately 39.8%.
From 12.5% to Nearly 40% – The Good News, and What It Means
Road to First Oil – Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil Minded – Part 195 Part I of II President Irfaan Ali brought Guyanese some genuinely good oil news this week.
The Resource Curse begins on a farm (Part two)
The Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must become Oil-minded Column 194 In Column 193, I argued that the controversy surrounding President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek is not fundamentally about agriculture.
The Resource Curse has arrived – on a Farm
Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-minded Column No. 193 Part I The story of the month, and perhaps of the year, has been President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek, an area off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.
Review: Nationalisation of Bookers on the Legal Front by Mohamed Shahabuddeen
Written only days after the conclusion of the negotiations for the nationalisation of Bookers in 1976, Mohamed Shahabuddeen’s manuscript offers a rare insider’s account of one of the most significant episodes in Guyana’s economic history.
