Part 2
Introduction
Today as we celebrate Christmas, a day marked as much for its commercial opportunities as for its religious significance, Business Page concludes a look-back at some of the articles carried in these columns during 2011. Out of a pool of fifty, the selection was made based on what I consider to have been the ones which had continuing importance, as Guyana navigates the unchartered but exciting prospect of shared governance between the executive and the legislative branches of the state. Consequently, and with a slight departure from the first instalment begun last week, the number of articles has been reduced to allow for some greater depth of those addressed. Today, we look at Robert Persaud’s challenge and pusallinimity with respect to GuySuCo, the continuing failure by the opposition-chaired Public Accounts Committee to put teeth into the audit of the government’s accounts, the continuing abuse of the Contingencies Fund by Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh, the Amaila road and hydro-electricity project, NICIL, Clico and the