‘$40M for silence’ – Govt. allocates millions for unresponsive office of commissioner of information

– $33.5M to pay his salary, other benefits By Davina Bagot (Kaieteur News) – For more than a decade, Guyana’s Office of the Commissioner of Information has failed to deliver the very transparency it was created to guarantee. There has been no annual reports, no meaningful engagement with the media and little to no response to […] The post ‘$40M for silence’ – Govt. allocates millions for unresponsive office of commissioner of information appeared first on Kaieteur News.


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