Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the territory, having long travelled it repeatedly in some fashion. But when VP Jagdeo is compelled to leave his other priority duties to lecture ministers, PSs, REOs, and that odd lot, it inspires several strains of thought. Try these published ones.

For starters, it reinforces those matters that have really gone off the deep end in PPP management land. Management land has metastasised into advanced corruption land, stage IV. I use the vocabulary of cancer, with which I have much familiarity, to relay how unbelievably and undeniably bad corruption is in the PPP Govt. For a former president, and Guyana’s oil president, to separate from the nation’s riches, even for a moment, is all that Guyanese need to know about how far and self-destructive chronic corruption has become in the PPP Govt. Corruption inside the PPP. Corruption around the PPP. Corruption over and under and all over the PPP -government and party, most players and practitioners of the art of stewardship in times of gushing oil.