Side-by-side PAC review

Nov 11, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – By the process of using time as its weapon, the PPP/C Government got what it wanted. Time used to erode whatever determined resistance there was. The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has come to a compromise. There will be side-by-side reviews of spending for the years 2020-2024. The PAC has struggled to get through one year’s review in its annual calendar sessions, with government delaying tactics and its other clever parliamentary manoeuvre contributing heavily to the backlog. Now citizens are told about how efficient these side-by-side examinations will be, and how beneficial they will be.

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Hundreds of billions spent in each of those five years, as if in a frenzy. Each year introduced record-breaking national budgets to citizens. Energetic and consistent representations made to the people about how much was being done for them. However, when it is time to check into the way that the billions were spent, there is this squeezing of five years of financial reports into what is tantamount to a peephole. A quick glance at piles of reports, and then signing off and moving on.