WHAT I am about to write here is going to shock you. Before my revelation, some notes are in order. I belong to the old school of journalism. I belong to the old days when journalists loved their work and endured sleepless nights chasing their stories. What I am about to write here is based on journalistic investigation.
Guyana has too small a population for both implicit and explicit, both graphic and subtle behaviour to go unnoticed. Dedicated journalists can enlighten Guyanese with their investigative journalism. I have been working for months now on a story.

I waited until I got evidence before I went public. I have the evidence on a flash drive which is not kept at my home.
Here is what I can prove. One of the embassies in the ABCEU sphere in Guyana wired the equivalent of 27 million Guyanese dollars from a Barbadian account to an Amerindian group that is opposed to the government.

The money was sent in March this year to be used among Amerindians in the local government elections of June this year. It was wired to the group’s account at a local bank. It means that employees at that particular bank know that this money came in for that particular group.
I am going to use Guyanese currency rather than pounds, Euros and American dollars. There is a LGBT organisation that has funds equivalent to the combined NGOs in this country. Five years ago, this group asked one of the ABCEU missions for the equivalent of half a billion dollars (remember with our foreign exchange system, requests to embassies are chicken feed to the embassies but it is “nuff” money in the Guyanese context).

The money was requested for sex change operations, hormone treatment, travel arrangements, setting up of a secretariat with paid staff including medical doctors.
The embassy cut it down to $200 million. This group in one swoop got $200 million. I did my investigation. I am doing my investigation.
A woman who is an anti-government critic operating in the circle of the anti-oil bandwagon received $42 million from one of the embassies. After years lapsed, she was requested to deposit her work that was supposed to be done in the interior. She couldn’t. The embassy decided to ask for reimbursement.
What she did after she was asked to pay back cannot be mentioned here because in doing so I would have to go into details and the specific embassy would have to be named. This woman has absolutely no right to criticise the Guyana Government for lack of accountability.

At the moment, a civil society group which is a combination of other civil society entities which exist in name only has submitted a proposal to one of the ABCEU embassies for the equivalent of just under $150 million.
This is a group hostile to the government. And one suspects the funds, if given, will find its way either into one of the small third parties or help to fund a new political party. Let me assure you, I have done my investigation. The money is asked for the purchase a property to house a fulltime staff and to buy vehicles.
How do these groups come to get such large funds? The route is the cocktail circuit. Civil society organisations and NGOs do not miss any event sponsored by the ABCEU missions. And by event, I literally mean any kind of event. It is through this avenue they approach the embassies.
Many of these civil society groups compete with each other, except a certain LGBT organisation, for funds and the older NGOs lose out. The embassies tend to want to encourage newer formations.

The exception is of course the LGBT entity. In the history of civil society groups in the country, none has enjoyed the deep pockets of western embassies more than this organisation.
When Red Thread was formed in the 1980s, it received handsome money from the Western embassies through the efforts of Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine who was the political favourite of all Western embassies.

But the kinds of financial support this LGBTQ+ group gets is far larger than the sums Red Thread ever collected. The outfit has a fulltime staff that received salaries higher than what obtains in both the private and public sectors.

It should be mentioned that the LGBTQ+ grouping adds its name to most of the letters from the usual suspects that constantly request transparency and accountability from the government. But these people need to be transparent and accountable themselves. Does it have term limits? When last it had elections? Are its books checked by the Auditor-General as requested by law for all NGOs?