👴🏾 UNCLE RAMESH’S BUDGET CELEBRATION
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
[Uncle Ramesh in Queens, NY, watching Budget 2026 replay for the THIRD time, WhatsApp group on FIRE, and tears in he eye because FINALLY somebody building Guyana properly]
AYE AYE AYE!
BETA! DIS IS WHAT WE BEEN WAITING FOR!
Budget 2026 just dropped and I CANNOT contain meself! $1.588 TRILLION! Me whole body catch goosebumps when Dr. Ashni Singh finish presenting!
Let Uncle Ramesh break down WHY dis budget is HISTORIC!
🏠 HOUSING: 15,000 Lots AND 8,000 Homes!
You hearing dis? 15,000 NEW HOUSE LOTS! Plus 8,000 actual homes!
When de opposition was in power, how much house lots dey distribute? HOW MUCH?
Now de PPP putting $159.1 BILLION in housing. BILLION with a B!
Dr. Singh seh: “Our investments in housing are not just about providing shelter, but about creating safe, thriving communities where citizens can live with dignity, stability, and pride.”
DAT IS VISION, BETA! DAT IS LEADERSHIP!
Me nephew in Parika just get he lot last year. Now he building. HE BUILDING! In he lifetime! Not waiting for 20 years like when PNC was in charge!
🧩 GUYANA’S FIRST AUTISM SCHOOL — ME HEART FULL!
[Uncle Ramesh pause to wipe eye]
Beta, when I read dis, I nearly cry.
Guyana getting its FIRST school for autistic children!
$316.5 million going to special needs education and disability services. Dis is de government caring for EVERYBODY. Not just de able-bodied. Not just de healthy. EVERYBODY.
You know how many families been struggling with special needs children and nowhere to send dem? NOW DEY HAVE HOPE!
Dis alone is worth de whole budget. EVERYTHING else is bonus.
🌴 TOURISM BOOMING — 453,489 Visitors!
RECORD-BREAKING!
In 2025, Guyana welcomed 453,489 visitors. De most EVER!
And what de government doing? INVESTING MORE!
- New Hospitality and Tourism Institute training 700+ people
- 56 communities added to tourism circuits
- Air Transat flying twice weekly to Toronto
- Diaspora tourism being targeted — weddings, reunions, conferences
Uncle Ramesh seh: Me cousin Sumintra want to do she daughter wedding in Guyana next year. NOW she have OPTIONS! Hotels opening left and right!
De opposition want to talk bad? TALK! Meanwhile, tourists COMING!
🌾 AGRICULTURE GETTING TRANSFORMED
$745 MILLION for agro-processing!
New facilities in Parika and Lethem. Cold storage everywhere. Regional Food Hub in Yarrowkabra completing THIS YEAR.
25 Guyana Shop corners across de country — AND one in BARBADOS!
Corporate tax REMOVED for agriculture and agro-processing businesses!
You know what dis mean? FARMERS CAN PROSPER! Small business can GROW! Rural Guyana getting OPPORTUNITIES!
When last opposition invest in agriculture? When last dey care about farmers? Dey was too busy firing sugar workers!
💼 PRIVATE SECTOR HAPPY — Because DEY GETTING RESULTS!
De Georgetown Chamber of Commerce PRAISED de budget!
- Zero-interest development bank with US$100 MILLION
- VAT removed on local furniture and jewellery
- Export allowance expanded
GCCI seh: “Transformational effect on Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises.”
When de business community happy AND de people getting housing AND special needs children getting schools… DAT IS GOOD GOVERNANCE!
📰 What I Reading in De Chronicle Today
From de Guyana Chronicle headlines:
- “Highly sustainable, diversified, people-centred tourism industry being built”
- “15,000 new house lots, 8,000 homes planned under 2026 housing programme”
- “Budget 2026 is positioned with the people at the centre”
- “New agro-processing facilities for Parika, Lethem”
DIS IS DEVELOPMENT! DIS IS PROGRESS!
🗣️ Uncle Ramesh Final Word
Budget 2026 is HISTORIC.
Not because of de size — $1.588 trillion is big, yes — but because of de VISION.
Housing for de homeless. Schools for de special needs. Support for farmers. Opportunities for small business. Tourism creating JOBS.
De opposition want to complain? Let dem!
Norton seh he wasn’t consulted? Maybe if he wasn’t BOYCOTTING Parliament, he would be INSIDE when de budget presented!
Meanwhile, de government WORKING. De country GROWING. De people BENEFITING.
From here in Queens, I watching me homeland RISE. And me heart FULL.
Now excuse me, I got to call me family in Berbice and congratulate dem on de agro-processing investment coming to Region Six!
One Guyana, beta! $1.588 TRILLION OF LOVE! 🇬🇾💰
Uncle Ramesh is a retired accountant from Berbice now living in Queens, NY. He reads all four Guyana newspapers daily and provides “balance” to his nephew’s Daily Brief. He is not a PPP member but he “know good governance when he see it.”