What the papers can’t print, the Mill will grind. All rumours are unverified. Some are implausible. A few might be true. We’ll never tell.
🌀 Word on the street is that when the Digital Identity Card Act commencement was announced, at least three senior civil servants had to quickly Google what the Data Protection Act actually says. Just to check. You know. For completeness.
🌀 A little bird at City Hall whispers that the list of ratepayers being taken to court is, shall we say, politically diverse. One name allegedly on the draft list called in a favour. The name has since been reviewed. Nothing confirmed. The Mill just grinds.
🌀 Reliable sources close to a source say the five Brazilian miners who were fined $30,000 GYD and deported were back across the border before the press release announcing their deportation had finished loading on the Ministry’s website.
🌀 We hear that when Ambassador Theriot said the oil deal was “a win-win for both countries,” there was a brief pause in the room. A very long, considered pause. A pause that could have housed a small family.
🌀 A tipster from the AFC says that Jaipaul Sharma’s press conference on the $9 billion cost-of-living funds was attended by exactly eleven people, three of whom were journalists, two were late, one thought it was a different press conference, and the remaining five are still waiting for someone to explain what “cheapflation” means.
🌀 GBTI insiders — purely hypothetically — suggest the real reason the bank is appealing the WIN party accounts ruling is that the legal team prepared the original brief so thoroughly that they simply cannot bear to admit it was wrong. Sunk cost, as the economists say.
🌀 Georgetown residents near Alberttown report that after Tuesday’s fire destroyed the Fifth Street building, the fire truck took twenty-two minutes to arrive. The neighbours, however, formed a bucket brigade in six. No lives lost, but the neighbours may be due a municipal award. They won’t get one.
🌀 Overheard at a Georgetown café: “You know what the Digital ID card needs? An opt-out option.” The person at the next table allegedly choked on their coffee and said, “This is Guyana.”
🌀 Finally, and we stress this is purely a rumour: someone very close to a government minister apparently asked, in total seriousness, whether the new drone security network can be used to monitor illegal parking in front of the Ministry of Finance. Drones for governance. Progress.
The Rumour Mill operates on vibes, whispers, and the occasional anonymous tip. Nothing printed here should be taken as fact, acted upon legally, or repeated to your mother-in-law.