Your weekly economic snapshot. Budget 2026 allocations rolling in. Oil production steady. Stabroek News closure signals media market shift.
Read More →DJ Roadblock’s Friday traffic and infrastructure report. Today: flooding edition.
Read More →A Pro-Government Perspective from Queens, NY 🗽🇬🇾
Happy Friday from Queens! And before anybody start — yes, I read de news about Stabroek News closing. I getting to dat. But FIRST let me talk about what de Brief CONVENIENTLY buried under all de drama.
Beta, Minister Croal announce ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS fuh housing in 2026. New housing schemes. Land acquisition. Utilities infrastructure. Regularisation of informal settlements.
Read More →The Committee of Supply continues consideration of the $1.558 trillion national budget. Key allocations examined this week:
The budget debate phase has concluded. The Committee of Supply phase is where line-by-line examination occurs, producing the detailed spending revelations that the debate phase typically lacks.
Read More →Chile, CHILE. Bam-Bam Sally ain’t sleep since yesterday and I ain’t plan to sleep tonight neither because this SOCU business got Georgetown buzzing like Stabroek Market on a Saturday morning.
Now Sally ain’t saying and Sally ain’t implying, but a VERY reliable source — and by reliable I mean she does sell doubles right across the road from Freedom House — tell me that some VERY interesting activity was happening at PPP headquarters last night. Vehicles pulling up. Papers moving. People looking nervous.
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Twenty SOCU officers and a sniffer dog raided Mohamed’s Enterprise on Lombard Street yesterday — a building that’s been closed since 2024.
They found less than two million dollars in cash and some documents. Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed, who is US-sanctioned and facing extradition, says it’s political payback for his Parliament speech where he claimed he bankrolled the PPP with hundreds of millions.
Read More →Barbados went to the polls on Tuesday in snap elections called by Prime Minister Mia Mottley. Pre-election polling showed the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) leading in all 30 constituencies with approximately 78% voter support. The DLP leader reportedly did not vote in his own constituency’s elections — which tells you everything about the state of the opposition.
Reports from across the island described voting as “smooth and steady.” The BLP manifesto focused on childcare, jobs, and development. Mottley has pledged 100% renewable energy for Barbados by 2030 under her Mission 2030 initiative. Results are expected shortly if not already declared.
Read More →Alright, alright, alright. Leh me understand this properly.
A man who is sanctioned by the United States Treasury. A man who is indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami on 11 counts. A man whose family is accused of evading US$50 million in gold export taxes. A man who is literally facing extradition proceedings in Georgetown court right now.
And when SOCU searches his premises based on credible intelligence… that is political victimisation?
Read More →Twenty Special Organised Crime Unit officers. One sniffer dog. A building on Lombard Street that has been closed since 2024.
And what did they find? Less than $2 million in cash and some documents.
Let we put this in perspective. Twenty armed officers could not find twenty million dollars. They found less money than what most Guyanese keep in their mattress for emergency.
Read More →This week’s government achievements: Budget 2026 approvals rolling through Committee of Supply, Gas-to-Energy at 68%, new Amerindian hostel funded, recycling centre launched, and 30 bad contractors blacklisted.
Read More →Barbados goes to the polls as Mottley seeks historic third term, Cuba adopts emergency 4-day work week over fuel crisis, Jamaica rattled by 5.0 earthquake, and Trinidad Carnival is days away.
Read More →Uncle Ramesh from Queens celebrates the corruption index improvement, explains why 30 blacklisted contractors proves the government is WORKING, and has strong opinions about the Guyana flag at the Super Bowl.
Read More →Guyana crawls up ONE spot on the corruption index, 30 contractors get blacklisted, Ali tours Brazil’s gas plant, sugar promises continue, and the Guyana flag at the Super Bowl has people HEATED.
Read More →Bam-Bam Sally heard that somebody in the diaspora paid Bad Bunny to wave the Guyana flag, a certain pump station contractor is hiding from the Minister, and the blacklist is longer than 30 names.
Read More →Your daily Caribbean roundup — what’s happening across the region.
Barbados goes to the polls TOMORROW (Wednesday, February 11). Schools will be closed to facilitate voting. PM Mia Mottley’s Barbados Labour Party faces what observers say is the most competitive election in years.
The Commonwealth has deployed election observers. Meanwhile, PM Mottley made headlines by slamming opposition figure Ralph Thorne’s interview with a Trinidad media outlet, suggesting external interference. Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar has denied that her UNC party is trying to influence the Barbados result.
Read More →Your Tuesday rundown from all four papers. Grab your coffee, this one’s spicy.
President Ali popped across to Boa Vista on Monday and came back wearing the Medalha Forte São Joaquim — Roraima’s highest honour — presented by Governor Antonio Denarium. The Chronicle gave it the full red-carpet treatment, naturally.
Ali talked about “removing barriers to trade, improving connectivity, and creating an enabling environment for private-sector engagement” with Brazil. You know, all the things we’ve been talking about since approximately 1966.
Read More →Uncle Ramesh read de papers from Brooklyn dis morning and he got PLENTY to say.
Eh-eh! So de President gone Brazil, get de highest honour from Roraima state, talk about trade and food security and energy cooperation — and all-you STILL finding fault? De man building bridges — LITERAL bridges — between two countries and de opposition side chatting bout “we heard this before.”
You know what I hearing from Lethem side? People EXCITED. Brazilian business people coming over, Guyanese going across. Dat is REAL economic activity, not paper talk. When last time de opposition build a relationship with ANYBODY? Dey can’t even get along with deyself, much less a whole country.
Read More →Barbados heads to polls February 11 with schools closing for election day, Trinidad’s PM addresses Caribbean Energy Week, Jamaica’s IMF $415M deal progresses, and Cuba’s crisis worsens as US tightens the screws.
Read More →Christopher Ram questions whether the Auditor General is actually auditing anything, 77 Cubans are screened for suspected human trafficking, more than 20 homes bulldozed in Circuitville, and Hetmyer smashes the fastest WI fifty in T20 World Cup history.
Read More →Uncle Ramesh from Queens celebrates Hetmyer and Shepherd’s World Cup heroics, praises the Bayroc Stadium opening, and wonders why the Brief is obsessed with Christopher Ram.
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