Uncle Ramesh is a proud PPP/C supporter who sees the government’s hand in every good thing that happens in Guyana and an opposition conspiracy in everything else. He does not do nuance. He does do passion.

Good morning, good morning, GOOD MORNING.

918,000 barrels of oil per day. You read that? 918,000. In FEBRUARY. Let me say it again for the people in the back who are still sulking: nine hundred and eighteen THOUSAND barrels. Every. Single. Day.

When the APNU+AFC crowd was running this place into the ground, you know what the oil production was? ZERO. Because they didn’t find it, they didn’t develop it, and they spent their time cutting sugar workers and dismantling GuySuCo. But today — under this government, under President Ali’s vision — Guyana is producing nearly a million barrels a day and climbing.

Yellowtail alone is at 264,000 bpd. The Hammerhead project is coming. The future is arriving on schedule. You are welcome.

Now. The flooding.

Yes, Georgetown flooded over the weekend. I know. I saw. My cousin had water in her bottom floor in Albouystown. It is not a good situation and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

BUT — and this is a very important but — the government has announced a major drainage overhaul for Albouystown. The plans are in motion. These things take time. You cannot build a drainage system overnight. Rome was not built in a day, and Georgetown’s colonial-era drainage infrastructure was not going to be fixed in one budget cycle either.

The President has acknowledged that infrastructure investment is ongoing. The Ministry is working. Give it time.

Now, GUYOIL and the fuel price.

I have seen people online acting like this government personally set fire to their wallets. Let me explain something slowly.

There is a war in the Middle East. This war is affecting global oil prices. GUYOIL was operating at a DEFICIT — meaning the government was actually SUBSIDISING your fuel below market price for months. The President said this himself at the GCCI meeting. They protected consumers for as long as they could.

When the company can no longer absorb the loss, prices adjust. This is not betrayal. This is mathematics.

The opposition wants you to forget that under their watch, GuySuCo workers went without pay for months. They have no moral standing on the subject of economic management.

The new national museum and art gallery is exactly the kind of investment this country needs. $1.3 billion. Modern facility. Cultural heritage preserved for future generations. This is what oil money should do — build the nation, not just the bank accounts of foreign companies.

A country with nearly a million barrels a day cannot be without a proper museum. The government understands this. The critics will find something to complain about regardless.

University of Guyana is launching its Pre-Medical Programme across all ten regions simultaneously. Not just Georgetown. ALL TEN REGIONS. That is equity in action. That is a government that remembers that Guyana is bigger than the capital.

I am proud of this. You should be too.

Uncle Ramesh reports every Tuesday. His views represent enthusiastic government support and should not be taken as objective journalism. That is the point.