Dear Editor,
The editorial in yesterday’s Stabroek News, `The $95,000’ is a brilliant and deeply relevant piece, and one that deserves close attention.
What it exposes—quite starkly—is how major public policy decisions in Guyana are being formulated and defended without any credible data, analysis, or transparent methodology. The absence of evidence-based justification for figures that are meant to shape livelihoods, expectations, and economic behaviour should concern every citizen.
Good governance is not merely about announcing policies; it is about demonstrating the reasoning behind them. When numbers appear arbitrary, unsupported, or immune to scrutiny, public trust erodes and policy credibility suffers. The editorial rightly highlights that policymaking without data is not only poor practice—it is risky, especially in a country undergoing rapid economic and social transformation.
Stabroek News is to be commended for consistently insisting on accountability, logic, and transparency in public discourse. Editorials like this perform an essential public service by reminding decision-makers that sound policy must be grounded in evidence, not convenience or assumption.