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Uncle Ramesh - Monday, April 20, 2026

Morning, my people. Ramesh here in Queens, sipping the lukewarm coffee my daughter-in-law makes — God bless her, she means well, but the woman boils water and calls it coffee — and reading the morning news from home with my reading glasses balanced on the wrong part of my nose.

Let me tell you what’s happening.

ELEVEN THOUSAND CONTRACTORS, MY FRIENDS. ELEVEN THOUSAND.

The President was at a Region Three event Sunday — handing over compact garbage trucks to the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, which is the kind of unsexy infrastructure work that nobody on the opposition benches has ever bothered to do — and he announced that more than 11,000 small contractors have applied to be pre-qualified across the country. Almost 1,500 from Region Three alone.

Daily Brief - Monday, April 20, 2026

Good morning, Guyana. The weekend ended quietly the way a tin roof ends quietly — by the time you noticed the noise, it was already over. Coffee in hand. Let’s begin.

THREE CRIME STORIES BEFORE 9 A.M.

Demerara Waves did the work the rest of us didn’t want to do this morning. Before most of us had finished the first cup, the wire was already humming. By 8:23, four residents of Hope Estate, East Coast Demerara, were under arrest for alleged possession of a rifle and ammunition — picked up Sunday night during what the police called “an operation,” which is the official word for “we knew where we were going.” By 8:10, a Golden Grove fisherman was dead. By 8:02, a Venezuelan man was in custody for an illegal firearm and rounds.