President Bharrat Jagdeo told US officials in 2007 that he intentionally kept bureaucracy in place to protect “the little guy” and blamed the entrepreneurial class for chasing away potential foreign investors by telling untrue tales of the difficulties of doing business in Guyana.
This is according to US embassy cables released by whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks. Jagdeo made the comments in a meeting with US officials prior to the signing ceremony for a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project in August 23, 2007, according to the confidential cable sent by then Charge d’Affaires at the US embassy in Georgetown, Michael