Jun 30, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – PAC. What do I see with Guyana’s Public Accounts Committee? How its work is probably thwarted? How much the Guyanese people are being shafted? When the billions are collected and celebrated, it’s all bugles and blasts of flourishing rhetoric from the PPP Government. In essence, the revelries of a cast of thousands guzzling from the national trough. In contrast, when it’s time for the books to be opened and accounting to be made, the PPP Government is now all of ventriloquists, their antics, and what is sick. From real-life, I share with citizens circumstances that they may, unfortunately, know too well. In trying, in trusting, they have often ended up with the tormenting. It’s what the PPP is doing with the PAC.

Money is put in a man’s hand. Trusted and credited. A worker. A brother. A stranger insisting she’s a partner. (Gender equality in action today). Include even an employer. It’s a sad day sometimes, when it is time to present the books, to payback, and to put matters right. A good lender is a poor thinker. Except for bankers, of course. The man or woman that owes an accounting, an explanation, an excuse, or an apology takes flight. Settles for distance. No phone calls coming. None returned. It is bad debt and bad ‘fren’ time. It usually means that something went wrong, is wrong, and is being handled wrong. By the cheating employer. By the now lost brother, disappeared worker, and the distant stranger. I place that in the laps of Guyanese. I draw one parallel: the PPP Government and its responses to the all-important PAC.