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Caribbean Daily Brief: Jamaica's Pension Scandal Widens, Trinidad Finds 56 Bodies in a Cemetery (Not Buried), Barbados Gets Fitch Warning, and the Reggae Girlz-Golden Jaguars Match Is Tonight

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Sunday across the region. The kind of Sunday where three countries produce three completely different species of chaos and we pretend this is normal. Pour your rum punch. Here is what is happening.

JAMAICA — The Pension Scandal Gets Worse

Retired police officers cannot pay their light bills

The Sunday Gleaner’s lead story this morning is devastating. Retired Jamaican police officers — some who served three decades — are unable to pay basic household bills because their pensions have never been properly processed. Retiree “Marlon Campbell” (pseudonym) told the paper he has been getting an interim monthly pension of just over J$100,000 for nearly a decade, still waiting for his final pension letter.

Sunday Brief: Exxon Keeps $23.6 Billion While We Get the Leftovers, Ali Tells Us to 'Brace' for More Pain, and Apparently the Strait of Hormuz Is Now Our Problem

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Good Sunday morning, Guyana. The papers this weekend read like a collective exhale, and not the good kind. The kind where you realize you have been holding your breath for four years and the air finally comes out sounding like a tire deflating on the East Bank Highway. Pour your coffee. Let us walk through it.

1. The ExxonMobil arithmetic that refuses to go away

Kaieteur ran the numbers again and they still do not add up in our favour. Between 2020 and 2024, ExxonMobil, Hess, and CNOOC — the Stabroek Block partners — pulled in US$29 billion in profits. Guyana, the sovereign nation on whose seabed this oil is sitting, received US$5.4 billion in the same period. This is our “50/50 partnership.” The math is, as dem boys would say, mathing in a particular direction.

Daily Brief: Nandlall Wants De Noise Gone, Scotiabank Get a Prize, Two Arrested in Berbice for Guns, and de Chess Players Come to Play

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400

Morning, Guyana. Saturday, April 18. The workweek is technically over but traffic doesn’t know that. Here’s what happened while you were sleeping in — or, more realistically, while somebody’s car alarm was going off at 5:47 AM for the third consecutive morning.

1. Nandlall Wants to Strengthen De Noise and Littering Laws

Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced this week that the government will review and amend the Summary Jurisdiction Offences Act to include stronger penalties for littering and noise nuisance, including prison time for repeat offenders and community service.

Daily Brief: CANU Grabs $190M, Cop Gets Caught in Ganja Cupboard, and a Canteen Lady Gets TikTok'd Out of Her Job

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400

Morning, Guyana. Friday, April 17. The sun is up, the traffic is already nonsense, and somewhere a government minister is already blaming the opposition for it. Here’s what happened while you were sleeping or pretending to sleep.

1. CANU Seizes $190M in Q1 — Says “We Are Really Cooking”

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit has announced that it seized more than $190 million worth of drugs in the first three months of 2026. Officials called this “a strong start.” Critics called this “how much of the other $900 million got through.” CANU declined to answer. A separate CANU officer was photographed shaking hands with a miner in Bartica who was later arrested with ganja in a cupboard. Nobody has explained the photo yet.

Daily Brief – Friday, April 3, 2026

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Your Good Friday morning roundup — Guyana hit with a 38% Trump tariff, government secretly paid US$82M to gas plant contractor, fake tint waiver medical certificates discovered, BOSAI fires the worker who won a pay raise, and Exxon exits the Canje Block.

Daily Brief – Thursday, April 2, 2026

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Your Thursday morning roundup — tint crackdown begins, Nicaraguan engineers allegedly flee with $13M in aircraft parts, Venezuelan jail finally releases Guyanese boat captain, and the U.S. Ambassador tells Guyana to leave the Exxon contract alone.

Daily Brief – Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Your Wednesday morning roundup of Guyana's top stories — flooding warnings, digital IDs, oil drama, and the AFC demanding government fork over $9 billion.

SOCU Raids Shut-Down Business, Finds Less Money Than What's In Your NIS Account

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0400

Twenty SOCU officers, one sniffer dog, and a building that's been closed since 2024. Plus: Government quietly paying US$90,000 a month to American lobby firms.

🎬 YouTube Scripts — Saturday, February 7, 2026

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

60-second and 4-minute HeyGen-ready scripts covering the Opposition Leader’s budget attack, secret extradition, Bayroc Stadium, small miners, and T20 World Cup.

☕ The Guyana Daily Brief – Saturday, January 31, 2026

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Budget 2026 aftermath, Guyana-UK climate deals, ExxonMobil eyes Venezuela border waters, Bangladesh opening embassy in GT, fatal Demerara River Bridge crash, and more from all four papers!