Leader of the AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said he didn’t believe the government was committed to full transparency in the extractives sector and said that it would be huge embarrassment to the country and a rebuke to President Irfaan Ali if Guyana was delisted from the EITI.
Stabroek News on Wednesday 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.
Without mentioning the SN report, President Ali in a Facebook video that same day said that his government was firmly committed to openness and accountability and sought to blame members of a multi-stakeholder group for the predicament the country now faced.