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Guyana Daily Brief – Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Good morning, Guyana. Oil is flowing, money is missing, and a policeman is on video threatening to murder a man. Wednesday.

OIL MONEY CAME IN. ALL OF IT.

Guyana collected US$761 million in oil revenue in the first quarter of 2026. That is a lot of money. The government would like you to focus on this number and not on any of the other numbers in today’s brief.

GOVERNMENT DENIES SECRET PAYOUT. CONFIRMS SECRET PAYOUT.

The Trini Dispatch – April 8, 2026

Good morning from Port of Spain, where the Prime Minister has announced she is sending a delegation to Venezuela to collect oil and gas money that T&T partly owns. This is the geopolitical equivalent of going to your neighbour’s house to politely retrieve the lawnmower you lent him three governments ago. Good luck to the delegation.

KAMLA ON VENEZUELA: “WE WANT WE GAS”

PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar, at a fire tender handover ceremony in Penal — because that’s where major international energy policy gets announced — said a diplomatic delegation will shortly depart for Venezuela to ensure T&T gets its “just share” of oil and gas it partly owns through the NGC. The National Gas Company has interests in Venezuelan fields. Those fields are currently managed by a government that manages things in its own particular way.