Advice to AFC...pay a little attention to Caribj

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Former Member

ah know he sounds a litttle nuts...but
AFC folks better pay some attention to Caribj...he right about the entrenched voting habits of PNC and PPP supporters...best chance for AFC is very low voter turnout...just make sure your people come out, the rest can stay home

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Former Member

caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

9/25/114:55 PM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

Guys...the AFC needs to maintain its 5-6 seats and focus on the 24% independent voters. That way we can change the country for the better forever. I doubt the PPP can get 45% votes. With TUF coming over to the AFC we will get another Amerindian seat.

9/25/119:22 PM

Bookman (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
Guys...the AFC needs to maintain its 5-6 seats and focus on the 24% independent voters. That way we can change the country for the better forever. I doubt the PPP can get 45% votes. With TUF coming over to the AFC we will get another Amerindian seat.

True, bai? You sure? No cochore?

9/25/1111:41 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
Guys...the AFC needs to maintain its 5-6 seats and focus on the 24% independent voters. That way we can change the country for the better forever. I doubt the PPP can get 45% votes. With TUF coming over to the AFC we will get another Amerindian seat.

I am glad you guys are seeing it the way I stated earlier this year. Focus on denying the PPP a simple majority. It matters little if you pick up only three more seats that means you picked up the requisite 21000 votes. You have a 100 thousand people who are not leaning PPP. These are mainly the young and first time voters. They are not swayed by the ethnic pull and think for themselves. Unfortunately, Amerinds are a captive block for the PPP. They will not break ranks since the leaders here are all hand pick mouth pieces of the PPP. If the PPP is kept under the 50% margin then one can forge real elections in Amerind communities that are not coerced and where the leader has to work for votes. If the PPP is kept under 50%, Guyanese will see what it means to have a democracy.

9/25/1111:52 PM

Bookman (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

9/25/1111:52 PM

TK_REDUX (Guest)

Bookman...here you go

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PPP/C alliance has cost TUF, says deputy leader
Posted By Stabroek staff On September 25, 2011 @ 5:18 am In Local | No Comments

Deputy Leader and long-standing member of The United Force (TUF) Michael Abraham feels that his party has lost popularity because of its alignment with the PPP/C administration and believes that if the party is to join forces with another group it should be the AFC.

Speaking with Stabroek News on Monday, Abraham said that he was a firm believer in inclusive governance where the best in each party forms the government. “That is the only, only viable way of getting our country going,” he said.

Questioned about forging a partnership with opposition coalition APNU, which has identified a unity government at the heart of its plans, Abraham said he was reluctant to do so and “would rather go with the AFC.”

“The PNC, they have not apologised for the years of rigging of elections,” Abraham said, while adding that if the main opposition went this route, it would greatly improve its chances of winning more votes. Abraham has been a member of the TUF since 1963 and was the party’s prime ministerial candidate at the last elections.

Abraham, who intends to resign as the party’s deputy leader because of ill-health and his distance from the city, said that he had been “out of the firing” line in the recent TUF leadership struggle. There has been a battle for control between party presidential candidate Valerie Garrido-Lowe and long serving party leader Manzoor Nadir.

After giving up the leadership of the party earlier this year, Nadir told Stabroek News that he had reluctantly taken it back as a result of Lowe’s attempt to “surgically remove” long-standing party officers. Lowe then secured an injunction against her party colleagues Nadir and Ismail Muhammad, preventing them from interfering with her functions.

The court has since ruled that Garrido-Lowe is the leader of the party and passed a ruling restraining Nadir from holding himself as leader and from occupying the party’s headquarters.

Regarding the dispute, Abraham suggested that the decision by Lowe to seek an independent route for the party may have riled Nadir and the PPP.

According to him, since the 2006 elections, people would approach him and say that “a vote for the TUF is a vote for the PPP.” “Those comments really unsettled me,” he said. “The final straw which broke the camel’s back was when he terminated the service of Carl Greenidge from Caricom,” Abraham said. “He’s a die-hard PNC, and I’m a die-hard TUF, but I know a good man when I see one,” Abraham said, referring to Greenidge.

Greenidge, a former finance minister under the PNC administration, was sacked last year as the Deputy Senior Director in the Caricom Secretariat’s Office of Trade and Negotiations, following a complaint by the Guyana government. It was Nadir, in his role as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and International Cooperation, who made the official complaint to Caricom on the government’s behalf.

The government took offence to statements Greenidge made at the funeral service of former PNCR executive member Winston Murray.

Nadir, who has served for 10 years as a PPP/C minister, has repeatedly said that he joined the Cabinet with the approval of his party’s executive.

Abraham told this newspaper that after the 2006 elections, Nadir actually called him and asked him about being a Cabinet minister. Abraham’s support of Nadir joining the PPP/C government was based on the belief that Nadir would be able to represent the interests of the TUF and the Amerindian people in the government.

However, Abraham is not pleased with Nadir’s efforts as a minister. “It looks as if we have been totally absorbed into the PPP,” he opined; “With all the charges of corruption with the PPP, I thought he should have done the honourable thing and resign.”

Efforts to contact, Nadir for comment were unsuccessful but he is on record as defending his involvement as a minister in the PPP government.

9/26/1112:03 AM

Bookman (Guest)

Thanks, TK. I read it only after I posted my questions.
Anyway, dat ent earth-shaking news. Not one more ripple will the Demerara river give if Lady Garrido party join the AFC.

9/26/1112:17 AM

Former Member

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Nadir, who has served for 10 years as a PPP/C minister, has repeatedly said that he joined the Cabinet with the approval of his party’s executive.

PPP/C alliance has cost TUF, says deputy leader
Posted By Stabroek staff On September 25, 2011 @ 5:18 am In Local

It took 10 years for the party to arrive at this conclusion?

9/26/1112:31 AM

jags (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:
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Nadir, who has served for 10 years as a PPP/C minister, has repeatedly said that he joined the Cabinet with the approval of his party’s executive.

PPP/C alliance has cost TUF, says deputy leader
Posted By Stabroek staff On September 25, 2011 @ 5:18 am In Local

It took 10 years for the party to arrive at this conclusion?

Well what we are seeing here now in Guyana DG is that a lot of people who previously were tepid and unwilling to speak up are now finding their voices. This can be seen for example with the parents from grove who protested in front of Office of the President. As recent as a year ago this would never have been done.

Credit goes to the AFC for this, if they did not start protesting and standing up to the govt no one would have been this brave.

This is a reality the PPP has to prepare itself for we have to be prepared to deal with the fact that people will become more vocal and they will start to assert themselves more over this election and the next few years, how will we deal with that?

Will we adopt our usual methods, Deny and Dismiss? or threaten and punish these folks? or will we sit down in a mature way and resolve these issues like adults?

9/26/119:44 AM

NehruBig Mouth Member

He could not stand close to Rohee and open his mouth but way in Canada he can talk all the SHIT whole Day.

quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

9/26/1110:15 AM

NehruBig Mouth Member

HEHEHE From we gun WIN to oh Rass leh we try to hold on to we two Wata Wash Seats.

quote:
Originally posted by D2:
quote:
Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
Guys...the AFC needs to maintain its 5-6 seats and focus on the 24% independent voters. That way we can change the country for the better forever. I doubt the PPP can get 45% votes. With TUF coming over to the AFC we will get another Amerindian seat.
I am glad you guys are seeing it the way I stated earlier this year. Focus on denying the PPP a simple majority. It matters little if you pick up only three more seats that means you picked up the requisite 21000 votes. You have a 100 thousand people who are not leaning PPP. These are mainly the young and first time voters. They are not swayed by the ethnic pull and think for themselves. Unfortunately, Amerinds are a captive block for the PPP. They will not break ranks since the leaders here are all hand pick mouth pieces of the PPP. If the PPP is kept under the 50% margin then one can forge real elections in Amerind communities that are not coerced and where the leader has to work for votes. If the PPP is kept under 50%, Guyanese will see what it means to have a democracy.

9/26/1110:16 AM

jags (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

Uncle Book he is tame compared to the ones we gat like Albert, SJ, Bgurdsee and of course who can forget the star of em all Nehru. We should focus on our own before we worry about who the AFC gat mekkin asses of themselves.

9/26/1110:57 AM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

Point taken Comrade Bookman. Thank you.

However, I am not a member of the AFC and more significant, given the choices these citizens have made since independence am I wrong?

Guyana, a country rich in natural resources, the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. And this is due to the choices its citizens have made.

9/26/1111:24 AM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by Nehru:
He could not stand close to Rohee and open his mouth but way in Canada he can talk all the SHIT whole Day.
quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

S@unt, look who talking. He who has not been back to Guyana in 30 years.

9/26/1111:25 AM

jags (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
quote:
Originally posted by Bookman:
quote:
Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

Point taken Comrade Bookman. Thank you.

However, I am not a member of the AFC and more significant, given the choices these citizens have made since independence am I wrong?

Guyana, a country rich in natural resources, the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. And this is due to the choices its citizens have made.

It seems if you criticize the PPP in anyway you are somehow automatically with the AFC why is this?

Can me fellow PPP Comrades please tell me why is this the case? Do we think the democratic party and republican party does not have opposing views in it?

Are we in the PPP so intolerant of alternative views? Is this what we have become?

9/26/1112:15 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by jags:
It seems if you criticize the PPP in anyway you are somehow automatically with the AFC why is this?

?

Jags you hve two options.

1. Vote AFC becasue the PPP is too far gone to be reformed.

2. Vote AFC because you wish to teach the PPP a lesson, knowing full well that "APNU?" will struggle to hold on to 30% of the votes so is no threat.

9/26/1112:23 PM

jags (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by caribj:
quote:
Originally posted by jags:
It seems if you criticize the PPP in anyway you are somehow automatically with the AFC why is this?

?

Jags you hve two options.

1. Vote AFC becasue the PPP is too far gone to be reformed.

2. Vote AFC because you wish to teach the PPP a lesson, knowing full well that "APNU?" will struggle to hold on to 30% of the votes so is no threat.

Who the heck are you to tell me where to vote. Are you now voting with the AFC? So you are tying some half cocked scheme to get me to vote aFC?

Please gwan dat side.

9/26/1112:28 PM

Former Member

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Originally posted by jags:
Who the heck are you to tell me where to vote. Are you now voting with the AFC? So you are tying some half cocked scheme to get me to vote aFC?

Please gwan dat side.

I dont live in Guyana so cannot vote. You do and can. So do yourself a favor and vote AFC. I gave you two excuses. Pick one.

9/26/1112:31 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
Guys...the AFC needs to maintain its 5-6 seats and focus on the 24% independent voters. That way we can change the country for the better forever. I doubt the PPP can get 45% votes. With TUF coming over to the AFC we will get another Amerindian seat.

The TUF no longer command the Amerind votes. The last election they barely get 3000 votes brating Sharma by 10.

You can change the country by doing what with 2 seats.

9/26/112:07 PM

jags (Guest)

quote:
Originally posted by caribj:
quote:
Originally posted by jags:
Who the heck are you to tell me where to vote. Are you now voting with the AFC? So you are tying some half cocked scheme to get me to vote aFC?

Please gwan dat side.

I dont need and I dont make excuses Thank you very much but for me to move to you style of lethargic laying out of my fat to spread simply will not work. I am a youngster you know?

I dont live in Guyana so cannot vote. You do and can. So do yourself a favor and vote AFC. I gave you two excuses. Pick one.

9/26/112:09 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by jags:
I am a youngster you know?

]

All of us once were but 30 years passes quickly. Hopefully you will be alive 30 years from now.

Any way you will do the right thing (not vote CUP) so you can feel free to say what ever you wish.

9/26/113:27 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by caribj:
quote:
Originally posted by jags:
Who the heck are you to tell me where to vote. Are you now voting with the AFC? So you are tying some half cocked scheme to get me to vote aFC?

Please gwan dat side.

I dont live in Guyana so cannot vote. You do and can. So do yourself a favor and vote AFC. I gave you two excuses. Pick one.

Even you must acknowledge that the PPP is the best choice of all the crooked parties. We know they thief but they give back. Meanwhile the AFC is filled with corrupt ones looking to capitalize on opportunity to steal money. They got the flour thief, the pepper sauce man and now the man from Canada with fake charities.

9/26/116:40 PM

Former Member

The A.F.C is dead...a truth their goons are desperately fighting...

9/26/116:53 PM

Former Member

quote:
We know they thief but they give back

what exactly did they give back?

9/26/117:04 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by albert:
The A.F.C is dead...a truth their goons are desperately fighting...

so why you worry bout them so much?

9/26/117:05 PM

cainTired old hippie

quote:
Originally posted by BGurd_See:
quote:
Originally posted by caribj:
quote:
Originally posted by jags:
Who the heck are you to tell me where to vote. Are you now voting with the AFC? So you are tying some half cocked scheme to get me to vote aFC?

Please gwan dat side.

I dont live in Guyana so cannot vote. You do and can. So do yourself a favor and vote AFC. I gave you two excuses. Pick one.

Even you must acknowledge that the PPP is the best choice of all the crooked parties. We know they thief but they give back. Meanwhile the AFC is filled with corrupt ones looking to capitalize on opportunity to steal money. They got the flour thief, the pepper sauce man and now the man from Canada with fake charities .

GURDMAN, ENLIGHTEN US ON THIS. THANKS.

9/26/117:05 PM

cainTired old hippie

quote:
Originally posted by albert:
The A.F.C is dead...a truth their goons are desperately fighting...

I'd like to ask you to "enlighten" us on this, but can you actaully "enlighten" anything/anyone? Loser.

9/26/117:06 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by BGurd_See:
Even you must acknowledge that the PPP is the best choice of all the crooked parties..

The PPP is the most corrupt of all and the lavish lifestyles of PPP officials like Ramotar and Jagdeo, all dirt poor in 1992, and not able to amass wealth based on their official salaries is proof of this. In addition the PPP plays around with mercenary gangs.

I can NEVER support them.

9/27/113:09 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by caribj:
The PPP is the most corrupt of all and the lavish lifestyles of PPP officials like Ramotar and Jagdeo, all dirt poor in 1992, and not able to amass wealth based on their official salaries is proof of this. In addition the PPP plays around with mercenary gangs.

I can NEVER support them.

Don't know if these men thief, but if they do , at least they give back enough to see the country progress. Something that was absent during the PNC years. The PPP is lesser of the evils.

9/27/116:19 PM

cainTired old hippie

[quote]Even you must acknowledge that the PPP is the best choice of all the crooked parties. We know they thief but they give back. Meanwhile the AFC is filled with corrupt ones looking to capitalize on opportunity to steal money. They got the flour thief, the pepper sauce man and now the man from Canada with fake charities .

OI BGURD ENLIGHTEN US ON THIS nah man. THANKS.

BJ or Ramoutar doan live in Canada do they?

9/27/116:24 PM

Former Member

quote:
Originally posted by cain:
[quote]Even you must acknowledge that the PPP is the best choice of all the crooked parties. We know they thief but they give back. Meanwhile the AFC is filled with corrupt ones looking to capitalize on opportunity to steal money. They got the flour thief, the pepper sauce man and now the man from Canada with fake charities .

OI BGURD ENLIGHTEN US ON THIS nah man. THANKS.

BJ or Ramoutar doan live in Canada do they?

I know you lil slow but take a read:

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Fraudster to host AFC fundraiser in Toronto PDF Print E-mail
Written by Daniel Singh
Sunday, 25 September 2011 05:45
CONVICTED Canadian-based Guyanese fraudster, Mr. David Singh is reported to be one of the main organizers of an upcoming fundraising event to be held in Toronto for the Alliance For Change (AFC) party.

Reliable sources in Canada yesterday indicated to the Chronicle that Singh has been circulating flyers and oganising the proposed fundraiser to be held shortly ahead of elections constitutionally due here before year-end.

According to an article in the Canadian daily, Toronto Star, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has revoked the registration of two charities it says were operated for Singh’s private gain.

The move to shut down charities promoted as tax shelters comes more than three years after the Toronto Star reported on Singh’s involvement and his controversial donation-for-profit strategies.

Destiny Health & Wellness Foundation and Liberty Wellness Initiative of Markham, Canada issued a total of Cdn$131M in charitable tax receipts in 2005 and 2006, according to the CRA.
But only a small portion of that amount was collected from public donations, and much of that went towards paying sales agents and companies Singh headed or owned, the Toronto Star reported.
Singh had earlier come to prominence in Canada as founder of the former 700-agent mutual fund organization, Fortune Financial Corp. and Infinity Mutual Funds Management Inc.
He sold those companies in 2000 after being disciplined three times by the Ontario Securities Commission.
Now the charismatic Guyana native says he operates pay-day-loan and money transfer companies, while working to raise funds for a medical school in St. Lucia.
“I made very little money (promoting the charities and tax shelters),” Singh insisted. “It was nothing but pain. Most of the money (40 per cent) went to pay agents’ fees,” the Toronto Star quoted him as saying.
But Cathy Hawara, director-general of the charities directorate in Canada, referred in a March 2010 letter to “collusive contractual arrangements with directors and related parties who are themselves promoting the tax shelter programmes.”
“These arrangements,” she is quoted as saying in the missive, “have resulted in substantially all of the actual cash received being diverted into the hands of the promoters and related companies rather than used for charitable purposes.”
Destiny “has been established and operated for the private gain of Mr. David Singh,” another official alleges in a letter to Singh.
Singh, the official is quoted as saying, “in his capacity as president of the tax shelter promoters, president of each participating charity, and shareholder of all four corporations involved in the tax shelter, as well as the involvement of his family members, puts himself in a position to direct the movement of funds received from participant donors between and into his corporate entities within and outside Canada.”
Destiny issued a tax receipt for $10,000 for each $2,500 a ‘donor’ would provide as a security deposit for a loan. It was claimed that the loan was to be paid from investment returns over 10 years. Sales commissions and other fees were deducted from the security deposit.
Law professor Daniel Sandler commented after quickly reading the Destiny material in late 2006 that the scheme should have raised red flags for donors.
“It becomes an interesting question how $2,500 invested in whatever form of investment . . . is going to generate sufficient returns,” Sandler said, adding that regardless, “you are definitely going to be reassessed; I say that with almost 100 per cent certainty.”
Singh said participants have indeed had their tax credits denied, but are challenging the denials. He would not name the lawyers hired to defend participants in the scheme.

Chronicle Topstory 2
Fraudster to host AFC fundraiser in Toronto PDF Print E-mail
Written by Daniel Singh
Sunday, 25 September 2011 05:45
CONVICTED Canadian-based Guyanese fraudster, Mr. David Singh is reported to be one of the main organizers of an upcoming fundraising event to be held in Toronto for the Alliance For Change (AFC) party.

Reliable sources in Canada yesterday indicated to the Chronicle that Singh has been circulating flyers and oganising the proposed fundraiser to be held shortly ahead of elections constitutionally due here before year-end.

According to an article in the Canadian daily, Toronto Star, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has revoked the registration of two charities it says were operated for Singh’s private gain.

The move to shut down charities promoted as tax shelters comes more than three years after the Toronto Star reported on Singh’s involvement and his controversial donation-for-profit strategies.

Destiny Health & Wellness Foundation and Liberty Wellness Initiative of Markham, Canada issued a total of Cdn$131M in charitable tax receipts in 2005 and 2006, according to the CRA.
But only a small portion of that amount was collected from public donations, and much of that went towards paying sales agents and companies Singh headed or owned, the Toronto Star reported.
Singh had earlier come to prominence in Canada as founder of the former 700-agent mutual fund organization, Fortune Financial Corp. and Infinity Mutual Funds Management Inc.
He sold those companies in 2000 after being disciplined three times by the Ontario Securities Commission.
Now the charismatic Guyana native says he operates pay-day-loan and money transfer companies, while working to raise funds for a medical school in St. Lucia.
“I made very little money (promoting the charities and tax shelters),” Singh insisted. “It was nothing but pain. Most of the money (40 per cent) went to pay agents’ fees,” the Toronto Star quoted him as saying.
But Cathy Hawara, director-general of the charities directorate in Canada, referred in a March 2010 letter to “collusive contractual arrangements with directors and related parties who are themselves promoting the tax shelter programmes.”
“These arrangements,” she is quoted as saying in the missive, “have resulted in substantially all of the actual cash received being diverted into the hands of the promoters and related companies rather than used for charitable purposes.”
Destiny “has been established and operated for the private gain of Mr. David Singh,” another official alleges in a letter to Singh.
Singh, the official is quoted as saying, “in his capacity as president of the tax shelter promoters, president of each participating charity, and shareholder of all four corporations involved in the tax shelter, as well as the involvement of his family members, puts himself in a position to direct the movement of funds received from participant donors between and into his corporate entities within and outside Canada.”
Destiny issued a tax receipt for $10,000 for each $2,500 a ‘donor’ would provide as a security deposit for a loan. It was claimed that the loan was to be paid from investment returns over 10 years. Sales commissions and other fees were deducted from the security deposit.
Law professor Daniel Sandler commented after quickly reading the Destiny material in late 2006 that the scheme should have raised red flags for donors.
“It becomes an interesting question how $2,500 invested in whatever form of investment . . . is going to generate sufficient returns,” Sandler said, adding that regardless, “you are definitely going to be reassessed; I say that with almost 100 per cent certainty.”
Singh said participants have indeed had their tax credits denied, but are challenging the denials. He would not name the lawyers hired to defend participants in the scheme.

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9/27/116:34 PM

Former Member

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It seems if you criticize the PPP in anyway you are somehow automatically with the AFC why is this?

Can me fellow PPP Comrades please tell me why is this the case? Do we think the democratic party and republican party does not have opposing views in it?

Are we in the PPP so intolerant of alternative views? Is this what we have become?

Great observation indeed! I have come to the same conclusion after the 1997 elections. The chemistry of the PPP is imbued with this Omniscience Complex and any one who dare to question that infallibility would summarily find themselves out of favor or on the outside. In spite of their palpable success, I believe a lot more could have been accomplished had they been more open to constructive criticism and dialogues. For this, they deserve a spell in the opposition benches or at least less than a an absolute majority. Unfortunately, APNU/ PNC is still the greatest obstacle/ threat to such reality.

9/27/117:17 PM

Former Member

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Originally posted by jags:
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Originally posted by Bookman:
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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

Uncle Book he is tame compared to the ones we gat like Albert, SJ, Bgurdsee and of course who can forget the star of em all Nehru. We should focus on our own before we worry about who the AFC gat mekkin asses of themselves.

An Indian is a traitor if he/she criticizes the PPP. This is as old as Guyana politics.

9/27/117:31 PM

Former Member

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Originally posted by baseman:
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Originally posted by jags:
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Originally posted by Bookman:
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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
caribj is no fool. In my humble opinion he is right when he describes the attributes of the PPP and PNC voter base.

Let's face it the spineless coolies will continue to vote PPP (dem nan know bettah) and the black ingars will continue to vote PNC (as they did in 1992) or stay home(as they did in 2006).

If the electorate does not yield to Guyana a minority Government in 2011 they deserve the bu@@ering Ramotar/Jagdeo will give them.

Brudda Jabr, you remind me of dem loud-mouth hell-and-damnation preachers standing outside Stabroek Market scaring away souls instead of drawing them to the Almighty.
In Guyana politics, if you want people to vote for you, you don't tell them they are "spineless coolies" and "black ingars." Insults don't win votes. You are doing a disservice to the poor AFC, brudda. And you sounding more crazy than that brother preacher in front Stabroek market.

Uncle Book he is tame compared to the ones we gat like Albert, SJ, Bgurdsee and of course who can forget the star of em all Nehru. We should focus on our own before we worry about who the AFC gat mekkin asses of themselves.

An Indian is a traitor if he/she criticizes the PPP. This is as old as Guyana politics.