Norway-Guyana deal. How aid officials were sidelined

News February 13, 2013

Norway’s unlikely NOK 1.5 billion partnership with Guyana, a country that was virtually unknown in Oslo, was only possible because two ministries - Environment and the aid portfolio in Foreign Affairs - were controlled by one minister, Erik Solheim, and he had the ear of the “environment side”.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and former President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana Photo: Prime Minister’s Office, Oslo

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