A small victory- a large opening

Oct 02, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – The 2011 Access to Information Act of Guyana can now bear some fruit. Information sought is released to those petitioning. It has been 14 years, long and frustrating years, with access to information, as allowed by law, routinely denied. Now, a small victory comes in a court ruling. It is a big opening, with so much of what democracy flourishes on, access to information, being almost within the grasp.

What will the aftermath of this court ruling of Justice Nicole Pierre be like? More dodging and resisting could still follow. We at this paper would hope not. For then what standing the court, what is the law, when neither has any weight, nothing such as compelling power? We still struggle over what it is that the PPPC Government has to hide. When transparency is claimed, then information is the education that follows as to how true that claim is. Access to it, and that information being made available, within the provisions of the law, and the procedures derived from it.