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. 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.