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Ramesh Sees It Differently — Saturday, April 11, 2026

April 11, 2026 • 3 min read

Ramesh Sees It Differently

Good morning. Ramesh is well. Ramesh had a productive Easter. Let us proceed.

THE PRESIDENT WENT TO TRINIDAD AND SPOKE TRUTH

President Ali addressed the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce on Friday, and the speech was, in a word, visionary. He laid out the full case for a Guyana-T&T economic partnership that could reshape the region — energy integration, food security, technology exchange, soybeans, cocoa, storage infrastructure — and he did it with the kind of bluntness that only a leader operating from a position of strength can afford. “Lock ourselves up for 72 hours and fix the damn problem.” That is not the language of a man who is uncertain about where his country is headed. It is the language of a statesman who has run out of patience for ceremonial slow-walking. PM Persad-Bissessar agreed on a full development agenda and will visit Guyana soon. Progress.

The Guyana Daily Brief — Saturday, April 11, 2026

April 11, 2026 • 4 min read

Daily Brief

Good morning from Georgetown. Here’s what you missed while you were sleeping off Easter.

PLANE DOWN IN REGION 8 — PILOT STILL MISSING

An Air Services Limited Cessna 208 went down Friday morning somewhere between Mahdia and Imbaimadai in dense, mountainous jungle. The pilot — Nicaraguan national Captain Ryder Castello, 20 years of experience, employed with ASL for ten of them — departed at 8:10 a.m. and was due at 8:40. He never called in. The crash site has been located on the side of a mountain, the hard part is getting to it. The GDF dispatched special forces and medical personnel via Bell helicopter, but the terrain requires climbing one mountain and descending the other side. Weather at the time: heavy rainfall, reduced visibility. Everybody is racing against the clock.