Amid Guyana’s embarrassing suspension from a natural resources transparency body, President Irfaan Ali yesterday pledged that his government is firmly committed to openness and accountability and sought to blame members of a stakeholder group for the predicament the country now faced.
Yesterday’s Stabroek News reported on Guyana’s suspension from the Norway-based Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for failing to meet an end-of-year submission of the 2020 report.
Official notification of the suspension was transmitted to the government on February 17 but there was no statement until the publication of the news item in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News.