π Patriots Portfolio β Friday, February 13, 2026
February 13, 2026 β’ 3 min readYour weekly economic snapshot. Budget 2026 allocations rolling in. Oil production steady. Stabroek News closure signals media market shift.
Read More βYour weekly economic snapshot. Budget 2026 allocations rolling in. Oil production steady. Stabroek News closure signals media market shift.
Read More βDJ Roadblock’s Friday traffic and infrastructure report. Today: flooding edition.
Read More βA Pro-Government Perspective from Queens, NY π½π¬πΎ
Happy Friday from Queens! And before anybody start β 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 βGuyana 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 βChristopher 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 βUncle 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.
Read More βSpeedeet and Wilar are two 12-year-old best friends from Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Every week they have an adventure that teaches them something new about Guyana.
The breeze was blowing strong off the Demerara River when Speedeet and Wilar parked their bicycles by the seawall and looked out at the brown water stretching toward the Atlantic.
“You know what out deh?” Speedeet said, pointing toward the horizon where the river met the ocean. “Way, way, way out deh?”
Read More βDJ Roadblock brings you the Friday traffic chaos report β Dem Boys nailed it: more road just means more traffic. Plus the Eccles roundabout is still a parking lot, and the East Bank corridor has drivers questioning their life choices.
Read More βPresident Ali tells the army ‘don’t blink’ on Venezuela, an MP fractures her ankle falling in Parliament, police burn 53,000 cannabis plants in Linden, Kaieteur calls the budget ‘matchless propaganda,’ and Dem Boys Seh more road just means more traffic. Your 5-minute Friday news circus.
Read More βThis week’s Patriots Portfolio breaks down the biggest budget stories: the $1.588 trillion allocation, tourism boom, gold sector resurrection, cash grants debate, and what it all means for ordinary Guyanese trying to build wealth in the fastest-growing economy in the world.
Read More βUncle Ramesh from Queens breaks down why President Ali’s GDF speech was exactly what Guyana needed, the budget debate critics have no alternative plan, tourism is booming, and the opposition should stop complaining and start contributing.
Read More βGood morning, Guyana! β
Welcome to Thursday, where four families are mourning men who went to work and never came home, the Mohameds just lost another legal battle, and the Opposition Leader discovered that the job comes with… well, nothing. No car. No security. Just vibes and an indictment.
Meanwhile, gold is over $5,000 an ounce but apparently we can’t find it, Speaker Nadir is still limiting journalists to a handful, and the government is promising to fix Stabroek Market β finally!
Read More βUncle Ramesh is a retired accountant living in Queens, New York. He reads all four Guyanese papers every morning and sends his thoughts back home. He supports the PPP/C government and believes in giving credit where credit is due.
Alright, alright. Me nephew does write that Daily Brief thing and sometimes he too cynical for he own good. Let me tell you what REALLY happening in Guyana right now.
Read More βThe 2026 budget debate opened with heckling and bizarre animal noises, Speaker Nadir brought back COVID rules to limit journalists to five, Ali told Belize to follow Guyana’s lead on food security, WIN and APNU both trashed the budget for different reasons, and a beloved Rupununi tour guide was murdered over cattle rustling.
Read More βUncle Ramesh reads the Chronicle cover to cover, watches the budget debate livestream from Queens, and can’t believe the opposition opened with a gold-smuggling MP demanding mining transparency.
Read More β60-second and 4-minute HeyGen-ready scripts for Tuesday’s Daily Brief covering budget debates, Speaker media lockout, and Ali in Belize.
Read More βYour daily satirical roundup of Guyanese news. We read the papers so you don’t have to β but yuh still should!
Happy Saturday, people! January done already? We barely finish swallowing de Budget numbers and the month gone just so! But before we close out January 2026, we got one PACKED edition for yuh. Grab yuh bake and saltfish, settle in, and leh we run through what happening in de land of many waters!
Read More βInvesting in Guyana’s Future - For Patriots Who Want to Participate in the Boom π¬πΎπ
Welcome back, Patriots! Another week of economic developments in the fastest-growing economy in the Western Hemisphere!
Based on the latest GSE Session 1154 trading:
| Metric | This Session | Last Session |
|---|---|---|
| Consideration | $43,528,779 | $40,246,738 |
| Shares Traded | 211,088 | 136,406 |
| Transactions | 48 | 27 |
Analysis: Trading volume UP! More activity this session suggests continued investor interest despite global uncertainties.
Read More βYour daily dose of Guyanese news, served with a side of pepper sauce πΆοΈ
Well, well, well… remember how everybody was wondering how certain vehicles was getting through customs smoother than a greased-up mango seed? The Guyana Revenue Authority done fire several officers and now they heading to court for AML/CFT violations connected to transferring vehicles from our favourite US-sanctioned businessman, Azruddin Mohamed.
Read More βA Pro-Government Perspective from Queens, NY π½π¬πΎ
Greetings from Queens where the cold biting but my heart warm from reading about all the good things happening back home!
Let me tell you, I just finish reading through the Budget 2026 details and I nearly fall off me chair with joy! $1.558 TRILLION dollars! That is the biggest budget in Guyana history! And what the critics have to say? “Rich getting richer.” Eh-eh! When the country was poor and nothing wasn’t happening, dem same people was complaining. Now we building and spending, and dem still complaining!
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