Guyana is ranked at 121 among 187 countries in the latest United Nations Human Development Index [HDI], released today.
Last year the HDI ranked Guyana at 118. This means that the standard of living of the average Guyanese citizen has dropped during the past year.
The HDI is based on combined statistics on life expectancy, education and income.
The 2014 HDI shows that, of the four largest Caribbean states, Guyana has the lowest standard of living.
Barbados is at the top with a ranking of 59, followed by Jamaica at 96 and Trinidad & Tobago at 100.
Neighbouring Suriname performed better than Guyana too. The HDI ranks Suriname at 118.
The UN Human Development Index is prepared by the United Nations Development Programme.
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These scumbags that calls themselves a government, should really be ashamed of themselves. Put a couple of school children in their place and Guyanese will get a far better performance.
Corruption at its peak....stealing money from the cookie jar, put their sons and daughters in likable job positions, runninng Guyana down the drains, giving the big contracts to their friends and cronies, by the mean time Guyanese is still earning slaves wages, whilst plug batty is taking home billions.
How different is Suriname from Guyana given that they are ranked just three points higher than Guyana? These ratings are not always right. Many people are pissed at Transparency International for stating that the U.S, Israel, and South Korea are more corrupted than Barbados. Not too many people buy this one.
Mr Gilbakka News Agency good.
Mr Gilbakka News Agency good.
JB, this is a scoop for GNI. Today's newspapers in Guyana are running blank on the 2014 UN Human Development Index.
The whole report was released yesterday in Japan. I discovered it while reading a news report that Canada ranks 8 in the HDI.
As a former editor of an international news agency, two private newspapers in Guyana and the former Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, I decided to read parts of the UNDP document relevant to Guyana and write the short news report above.
And, yes, I've founded a free news service and named it GILBAKKA FREE NEWS AGENCY. No copyright.
Mr Gilbakka News Agency good.
JB, this is a scoop for GNI. Today's newspapers in Guyana are running blank on the 2014 UN Human Development Index.
The whole report was released yesterday in Japan. I discovered it while reading a news report that Canada ranks 8 in the HDI.
As a former editor of an international news agency, two private newspapers in Guyana and the former Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, I decided to read parts of the UNDP document relevant to Guyana and write the short news report above.
And, yes, I've founded a free news service and named it GILBAKKA FREE NEWS AGENCY. No copyright.
Mr Gilbakka I ceck for it too and me dint see it. Mr Gilbakka you serious you was a editor. Which paper and what year? Me will ask me mamoo if he know you.
I think this mamoo chap know every one and who him doan know. Them know him
I think this mamoo chap know every one and who him doan know. Them know him
Yes me mamoo know plenty people.
How different is Suriname from Guyana given that they are ranked just three points higher than Guyana? These ratings are not always right. Many people are pissed at Transparency International for stating that the U.S, Israel, and South Korea are more corrupted than Barbados. Not too many people buy this one.
Of all the problems that Bajans complain about, too many Guyanese being the number 1 complaint, corruption isnt one.
It might shock you to know that Bajans dont have to pay a bribe to get a replacement birth certificate. Barbados is a nation of laws.
Corruption impacts EVERY aspect of life in Guyana, and this is not usual in the English speaking Caribbean, where most corruption occurs at the upper echelons of power.
These fools here bray every day that Guyana is so sweet and making enormous progress when the facts on the ground show that we are slipping further and further behind our neighbors. No wonder Guyanese are fleeing the PPP paradise like rats from a sinking ship.