April 8, 2026 • 3 min readDaily Brief
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.
Read More → April 8, 2026 • 6 min readRamesh
Good morning. Ramesh here. A lot of negativity out there this Wednesday. Let us set the record straight.
US$761 MILLION. YOU ARE WELCOME.
Guyana collected three-quarters of a billion US dollars in oil revenue in the first quarter of 2026. Let that land for a moment. Three. Quarters. Of. A. Billion. US. Dollars. In one quarter.
This government built that. This government negotiated those contracts, developed that infrastructure, maintained the institutional relationships with Exxon, Hess, and CNOOC that made this production possible, and created the conditions for that revenue to flow into the national treasury at this scale and at this speed. Other countries have oil. Not all of them have the leadership to monetise it responsibly, sustainably, and at pace. Guyana does. Let the number sit with you before you move on to whatever Kaieteur News has decided to be alarmed about today.
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