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Progress Report & Rumour Mill — March 2026

📋 PROGRESS REPORT — MARCH 2026

A satirical assessment of government projects and national promises.

PROJECT: $100,000 National Cash Grant STATUS: Partially Launched UPDATE: Bank account holders receiving funds. Citizens without bank accounts waiting on a digital platform “being set up.” No timeline provided. Citizens are encouraged to acquire bank accounts before the next announcement.

PROJECT: Windfall Tax on ExxonMobil Oil Revenue STATUS: Under Eternal Review UPDATE: Kaieteur News calculates a 25% windfall tax would generate US$9 million more per day for the national treasury. The government has reviewed this information. The review of the review is ongoing. A press conference about something else was held.

Tuesday's Guyana Brief — Budget Debate Opens With Animal Noises, Speaker Locks Out Press, and President Flies to Belize to Tell Them How Great Guyana Is

The 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.