A Mid-Year Report is a report card not an audit

Sep 24, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Christopher Ram is right to demand accountability for the spending of public money. He is also right that figures are most useful when they tell a coherent story about what Government has spent, what it has achieved and what remains to be done.

But to ask for all of these things in a Mid-Year Annual Report is to turn that report into something that it was not intended to be. And given the statutory timelines, it is doubtful that the deadline set in law would be met if Ram’s requirements were to be met.