Ram takes access-to-information fight international

(Kaieteur News) – Attorney-at-Law Christopher Ram has taken Guyana’s access-to-information dispute to 13 diplomatic, regional and international bodies, accusing the Government of failing to address concerns over citizens’ right to access public records.

In a press release dated 24th October, 2026, Ram said he had written to the heads of mission of the European Union, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Canada and India, as well as CARICOM, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Transparency International and the World Justice Project.

Ram said he had approached the bodies after receiving what he described as complete silence from the President Irfaan Ali Administration over his efforts to obtain information under the Access to Information Act 2011. He said he had asked the diplomatic missions to raise the matter with the Government, the human rights bodies to require the State to account for its actions, and the IMF to examine the taxes the Government pays on behalf of oil companies and how those payments are recorded.