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13 reports
International Investigation · Paraguay
More than US$800 million in public money, a US$2 million mansion and a secret Israeli biometric vault: the scandal that brought down Paraguay's President
Paraguay's former President is charged over the collapse of a bank that held hundreds of millions in public money and lent him the money for his lakeside house. Inside that house, behind a false wall, prosecutors found a vault they still cannot open.
NOV. 9, 2026
Public Money · Visual Analysis
Budget 2027: what’s going up?
Digital subscriptions, high-use electricity bills and selected imports face new charges. Business taxes and compliance fees add another layer. Follow the measures, the rates and their proposed start dates.
OCT. 14, 2026
Public Money · Investigative Economic Analysis
Behind Budget 2027: a contracting economy and the geography of public money
The Government’s own documents forecast weaker output, record rising unemployment and expose a sharper concentration of municipal capital funding in 2027. The figures test the promise of recovery against the money allocated and the spending delivered.
OCT. 13, 2026
Foreign Affairs · Strategic Analysis
The plan to make Trinidad and Tobago Israel's primary Caribbean partner — and Port of Spain a Jewish centre
A Security Council seat creates the opening. Geography, gas, diplomatic investment and a proposed Jewish institutional base could make the relationship last well beyond 2028.
OCT. 5, 2026
Caribbean Affairs · Analysis
Mia Mottley’s bigger argument: the global financial system is pricing vulnerability backwards
Barbados is trying to turn the cost of vulnerability into a case for cheaper, longer and more useful finance. The test is whether the architecture changes—not merely its language.
SEP. 27, 2026
Public Money · Investigation
The watchdog may still investigate. The Procurement Bill would stop it from biting.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Procurement Bill reaches far beyond faster paperwork: it widens exemptions, restricts the regulator’s remedies and narrows the time suppliers have to challenge an award.
SEP. 26, 2026
Public Finance
Twelve ambulances, $17 million, and a regulator still investigating
A $5.5 million tender for Isuzu ambulances became a $17 million fleet of Force Traveller vans, none of them in service by last November. The Procurement Regulator opened an investigation ten months ago. It has not reported.
SEP. 22, 2026
Public Finance
The $16 billion year: what the Procurement Regulator could not count
Public bodies reported $16.0 billion in contracts in a single year. Fewer than two in three filed the returns the law requires. The real number is unknown, and that is the finding.
SEP. 12, 2026
Public Finance
Dragon: the country's biggest energy bet, and nobody will publish the terms
A replacement licence was announced in October 2025. A year later the revenue split is still unpublished, the drilling tender is out, and the legal basis rests on a government installed after a foreign capture.
AUG. 6, 2026
Public Finance
Tobago's ambulances: the questions put to the TRHA before anyone went on air
A tender for Isuzu ambulances produced a fleet of Force Traveller vans. Before the story reached the airwaves, the questions were in writing on the Chief Executive's desk.
JUN. 2, 2025
Governance
From accounting error to political scandal: the $2.6 billion controversy explained
No money was stolen, and the Privy Council case was never about missing funds. The story is how a reporting error was detected, corrected and handled, and what the courts have and have not decided.
FEB. 6, 2025
Press Freedom
The spyware in a Dominican journalist's phone
Forensic analysis found Pegasus infections on Nuria Piera's device. It did not establish who ordered the surveillance.
JUN. 1, 2023
Press Freedom
Hopewell Chin'ono: arrest after reporting the contracts
Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono reported alleged Covid-19 procurement corruption, then spent six weeks in custody on an incitement charge.
SEP. 2, 2020