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I will be speaking at Cane Grove this evening SJ...there are many there who have been left behind, and many more that could have been doing much better, for example exporting polished rice instead of paddy, and a host of value added rice products, such as rice cereal, rice cakes, rice pudding in tins made from our own sugar, milk and rice.

These people certainly see progress in Guyana from a different perspective, especially given the state of the access road today, and being one that was rebuilt under the PPP.
FM
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Originally posted by Gerhard Ramsaroop:

These people certainly see progress in Guyana from a different perspective, especially given the state of the access road today, and being one that was rebuilt under the PPP.


Not every road, alley way, curb, bridge, pavement etc can be fixed at the same time given our limited resources. This does not say that these citizens at some point or the other will not experience the development being experienced in other villages, wards, communities et al.

Of course i don't expect your address to them later today to take this line......
FM
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
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Originally posted by Gerhard Ramsaroop:

These people certainly see progress in Guyana from a different perspective, especially given the state of the access road today, and being one that was rebuilt under the PPP.


Not every road, alley way, curb, bridge, pavement etc can be fixed at the same time given our limited resources. This does not say that these citizens at some point or the other will not experience the development being experienced in other villages, wards, communities et al.

Of course i don't expect your address to them later today to take this line......


Tell us about the special water lines and roads being built with taxpayers monies for the "working class, son of the soil etc" leaders who have misappropriated prime ocean front land at Sparendaam.
FM
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
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Originally posted by Gerhard Ramsaroop:

These people certainly see progress in Guyana from a different perspective, especially given the state of the access road today, and being one that was rebuilt under the PPP.


Not every road, alley way, curb, bridge, pavement etc can be fixed at the same time given our limited resources. This does not say that these citizens at some point or the other will not experience the development being experienced in other villages, wards, communities et al.

Of course i don't expect your address to them later today to take this line......
On the contrary, I will be very fair, and that will make my points come across even stronger.
FM
Looking at another dimension, despite the sordid picture they paint of how bad things are in Guyana, the critics themselves have been able to live relatively comfortably lives, some are also unable to explain their wealth:

A broke Mark Benschop prior to his incarceration, became the owner of these two SUVs after being released





He bought this house in Roxanne Burnham Gardens



This Motorcycle was recently shipped and registered in his name



He has control over this South Ruimveldt property(not too certain if it's his)



The East Street building which houses the Benschop foundation was recently transported in his name
FM
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
Looking at another dimension, despite the sordid picture they paint of how bad things are in Guyana, the critics themselves have been able to live relatively comfortably lives, some are also unable to explain their wealth:

A broke Mark Benschop prior to his incarceration, became the owner of these two SUVs after being released





He bought this house in Roxanne Burnham Gardens



This Motorcycle was recently shipped and registered in his name



He has control over this South Ruimveldt property(not too certain if it's his)



The East Street building which houses the Benschop foundation was recently transported in his name


Benschop assets reflect his PPP roots.

Ayu bettah mek he the PM,
FM
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:

Post a picture of Bharrat and Robert ocean front mansions.


You guys did that already. The problem is you only look at one side of the coin. The underlying factor is there has been progress. And even those who say 'no' have experienced it.


Post an updated on nah! One showing the neatly manicured lawns, gardens etc - all maintained by taxpayers monies. Our working leaders deserve nothing but the best.
FM
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:

Post a picture of Bharrat and Robert ocean front mansions.


You guys did that already. The problem is you only look at one side of the coin. The underlying factor is there has been progress. And even those who say 'no' have experienced it.




Jason was born here.
Mitwah


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The Ministry of Housing became a reality under the P.P.P/C administration...
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A rice mill at Cane Grove that has been polluting hundreds of residents with dust for years was Thursday given six weeks to convince authorities that modifications will bring an end to the environmental problem.

Residents complain that the mill, which is owned by Faizul Hack, creates a cloud of dust over their East Coast Demerara community when it is in operation.

A community meeting of more than 100 persons was told by the Head of Guyana's Environmental Protection Agency, Indarjit Ramdass that vents at the top of the silos would be removed and a duct system would be installed to collect the dust that would be pulled by an extractor fan and collected in a bag-house.

“We expect this system to work. There is still some fine-tuning to be done, some further testing but, together with the consultants at the University of Guyana, they have come up with a good solution to the problem here,” Ramdass said.

He acknowledged that the new system would be somewhat expensive but expressed confidence that it would work.

Hack said work has already begun on the modifications. Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud said there would be two trial-periods leading up to the end of August to ascertain whether the modification would work.

Inspections are to be conducted by officials of the EPA, Guyana Rice Development Board and the Faculty of Technology along with 10 community representatives.

Lecturer at the Faculty of Technology, Isidro Espinosa expressed optimism that the modification that has been borrowed from Robert Badal’s mill would work on Hack’s facility.

Espinosa said between 90 to 96 percent of the dust would be collected by the new facility.

Despite a previous recommendation by the EPA that the mill be removed from the community, Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud remained adamant that the facility remain at Cane Grove and allowed to resume operations only after the mill is fitted to stop dust pollution.

“Unless the facility is fixed, the mill will not be allowed to operate or certified,” he said, cautioning that if the mill is shut down permanently it would affect the rice growing community.

Under pressure from one of three vocal residents, Hack admitted that the mill was constructed without permission from the relevant authorities.

Persaud then insisted that Hack receives all approvals and permissions before it resumes operation.

In an apparent reference to the Alliance For Change (AFC) that has spoken out on the issue, the Agriculture Minister urged residents to guard against people “shopping around grievances.”

Thursday’s community meeting was a follow-up to a closed door session with community representatives, President Bharrat Jagdeo and the Agriculture Minister.
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quote:
Originally posted by albert:
A rice mill at Cane Grove that has been polluting hundreds of residents with dust for years was Thursday given six weeks to convince authorities that modifications will bring an end to the environmental problem.

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Thanks to AFC for highlighting this problem.

AFC!!!! flag

Albert before you go and hide in the bag house, you are wanted here: http://guyanafriends.com/eve/f...604972/m/96820321051
Mitwah
quote:
Originally posted by albert:
A rice mill at Cane Grove that has been polluting hundreds of residents with dust for years was Thursday given six weeks to convince authorities that modifications will bring an end to the environmental problem.

Residents complain that the mill, which is owned by Faizul Hack, creates a cloud of dust over their East Coast Demerara community when it is in operation.

A community meeting of more than 100 persons was told by the Head of Guyana's Environmental Protection Agency, Indarjit Ramdass that vents at the top of the silos would be removed and a duct system would be installed to collect the dust that would be pulled by an extractor fan and collected in a bag-house.

“We expect this system to work. There is still some fine-tuning to be done, some further testing but, together with the consultants at the University of Guyana, they have come up with a good solution to the problem here,” Ramdass said.

He acknowledged that the new system would be somewhat expensive but expressed confidence that it would work.

Hack said work has already begun on the modifications. Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud said there would be two trial-periods leading up to the end of August to ascertain whether the modification would work.

Inspections are to be conducted by officials of the EPA, Guyana Rice Development Board and the Faculty of Technology along with 10 community representatives.

Lecturer at the Faculty of Technology, Isidro Espinosa expressed optimism that the modification that has been borrowed from Robert Badal’s mill would work on Hack’s facility.

Espinosa said between 90 to 96 percent of the dust would be collected by the new facility.

Despite a previous recommendation by the EPA that the mill be removed from the community, Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud remained adamant that the facility remain at Cane Grove and allowed to resume operations only after the mill is fitted to stop dust pollution.

“Unless the facility is fixed, the mill will not be allowed to operate or certified,” he said, cautioning that if the mill is shut down permanently it would affect the rice growing community.

Under pressure from one of three vocal residents, Hack admitted that the mill was constructed without permission from the relevant authorities.

Persaud then insisted that Hack receives all approvals and permissions before it resumes operation.

In an apparent reference to the Alliance For Change (AFC) that has spoken out on the issue, the Agriculture Minister urged residents to guard against people “shopping around grievances.”

Thursday’s community meeting was a follow-up to a closed door session with community representatives, President Bharrat Jagdeo and the Agriculture Minister.


These good people at Cane Grove are thankful that the AFC supported them in forcing the government to take action on this matter. The AFC lead the way, and the government followed by taking action. The AFC has shown here it forced this.
FM
Teams have been appointed by President Bharrat Jagdeo and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess the operations of a rice mill at Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, which residents say has continually produced dust clouds over the past 10 years, enveloping their homes and causing them health problems.

Jagdeo and Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud met Cane Grove residents on the issue at the Office of the President yesterday, the Government Information Agency (GINA)
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quote:
Originally posted by SJ4321:
Looking at another dimension, despite the sordid picture they paint of how bad things are in Guyana, the critics themselves have been able to live relatively comfortably lives, some are also unable to explain their wealth:

A broke Mark Benschop prior to his incarceration, became the owner of these two SUVs after being released





He bought this house in Roxanne Burnham Gardens



This Motorcycle was recently shipped and registered in his name



He has control over this South Ruimveldt property(not too certain if it's his)



The East Street building which houses the Benschop foundation was recently transported in his name


Benschop is a US citizen and worked many years in teh USA before moving to Guyana.

Jagdeo was an impoverished civil servant in 1992. How has he been able to amass so much wealth as President?
FM
quote:
Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
SJ Numba,

Do me a favor...please go out and take some pics of major industrial developments that took place since 1992. Give us some pics of a few NEW DDLs and Banks DIHs. Show us workers at work in these massive NEW corporations. Thank you.


Naaah. Is more fun to show wealth that the drug dealing PPP class have.
FM
Housing

2010

 Over $9.6 billion was expended in the housing sector in 2010

 Allocated of 6,331 house lots as well as the distributed 4,591 land titles surpassing our targets of 5,500 house lots and 3,750 land titles

 $343.7 million was expended over the last year for the successful completion of a $2.2 billion housing project which has realised the construction and upgrading of roads, drains and structures benefiting 4,636 lots in areas such as Cummings Lodge C&Y, Sophia, Westminster, Belle West, Glasgow and Onderneeming.

 $680 million was spent on the construction of roads, drains and structures in areas such as Block 8 Mon Repos, Plantation Schoonord, Anna Catherina, Hope Estate

2011

 $3.6 billion is allocated to the housing sector to facilitate the development of housing schemes which is expected to result in the allocation of 7,500 house lots and the processing and distribution of 4,000 land titles.

 $700 million will be spent on improving the road network and water distribution systems to the benefit approximately 1,500 households.

 Under the Second Low Income Settlement Programme, 148 core houses are expected to be completed
FM
The opponents of the state....sees development in the Guyana society all around...yet they bury their heads in the sand...and wanna blog with a fork tongue...they should be ashamed of themselves.......come election day...the masses will vote on issues..they will vote for continued progress...they will vote for the pro working class party...the will vote for the peoples progressive party/civic.


FM
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
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Originally posted by TK_REDUX:
SJ Numba,

Do me a favor...


I don't do favours .....I'm showing you evidence of progress. Progress, the existence of which you have been denying.



SJ housing can only be maintained if people earn money to do so. They can make it from drugs or remittances....or from a thriving economy.

So where is the evidence that we have a dynamic economy with new exporters paying decent salaries?
FM
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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
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Originally posted by SJ4321:
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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:

Benschop assets reflect his PPP roots.

Ayu bettah mek he the PM,


Its speaks of the level of progress taking place which they either deny outright or just down play.


Post a picture of Bharrat and Robert ocean front mansions.


Post also Rohee hotel, which ignored ocean front/sea defence regulations, according to R4 administration.
Tola
$889M from sale of house lots in 2010 seriously exposes PPP’s boast on housing accomplishments
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS

Dear Editor,

The PPP spinners have always claimed and boasted that their party has done wonders with housing, distributing tens of thousands of house lots, opening schemes, etc. I’ve always said these spinners were delusional. Kaieteur News has vindicated me with numbers.

$889 million made from selling house lots and land for private schemes in 2010 tells the story. This so-called progress on housing claimed by the PPP for the past 19 years has always been nothing more than a major money-making scheme. The PPP takes the Guyanese people’s land, clears some bush from it, cuts a few narrow dirt roads and runs some water and some light poles and then sells it to the same Guyanese people for a fortune.

Guyana has 83,000 square miles (214,969 sq. km) of land. Land should be delivered way cheaper to the poor people looking for a better home. Instead, the PPP has concentrated on making as much money from selling people their own land. The Ministry of Housing made $1940 million in 2010 and spent $692 million for a massive profit of $1248 million. In 2009, it was $1180 million in income and spent $226 million for a massive profit of $954 million. The administration is obviously profiting from selling Guyanese people their own land.

The numbers clearly show that they are spending next to nothing on that land to prepare it properly before they sell it to Guyanese. No wonder we get housing schemes without running water, without electricity, mud dams for roads, no playgrounds, no schools, no medical centres and a palpable lack of community services. The PPP spent 19% and 36% of what it collected from the public. That is a shocking number. It is no wonder Diamond Housing Scheme has only one asphalt-covered dam that could barely fit two cars side by side as its only ingress and egress. It is no wonder we get schemes without basic amenities. People are being asked by government to pay millions for a small piece of land with no amenities and poor infrastructure.

When those private businessmen who get huge chunks of land for next to nothing turn around and charge poor people killer prices for small pieces of land, it is another expose of the truth about failure surrounding the PPP’s housing policy. Guyanese people are paying too much for land in a country with an abundance of land. The fact that the PPP is spending only about a third to develop the land they sell to Guyanese when they ‘give’ them house lots, tells us that the price of land is too high; tells us that this thing is a profit-making scheme being run on the backs of poor people already crippled by taxes and VAT.

There is no subsidising the cost of land to the people to whom it belongs. While the administration may distribute house lots, it is Guyanese like you and me who are paying an arm and a leg for those house lots. The PPP forgets to mention that there are really no free house lots in Guyana. You have to pay for that land, and given these numbers disclosed by Kaietuer News, you have to pay a lot for it. Land distribution should not be a profit-making scheme when people have to take on massive loans to build on those lands they have already paid too much for. Making money from selling the Guyanese people’s land back to them ends up taking that money from the Guyanese people and giving it to government in profits, all $1248 million of it in 2010.

When you give a government running a corrupt country $1248 million from mostly selling land to struggling people, who knows where it will end up.
The Guyanese people are the ones who have made housing a success. Not the PPP. For it is the Guyanese man or woman, desperate to make himself or herself better in spite of the slackness and failure of the society surrounding him or her, who takes that overpriced piece of swamp without amenities – that those selling it call a house lot – and struggles to build something from it.

While those who can afford it possibly get preferential rates for their land in areas like Pradoville and Pradoville 2, the poor, struggling Guyanese man has to overpay for his. He bears the burden of a mortgage, not the PPP. He faces the demands of the bank when he misses a payment, not the PPP which sold him the land at a ripoff price. It is he and only he who has to face the consequences of his action. If the administration distributes millions of house lots tomorrow, it does not change that it will make shocking profits on the backs of the struggling Guyanese who bought them.

Nor will it ever change that those who bought them have to lift the financial burden themselves in a country where 33% of their paycheques is lost to income taxes and 16% to VAT and another 5% to NIS payments and where cost of living is driving more and more people into poverty. When the PPP talks of making possible the dream of people owning their own homes, it does not talk about poor-paying jobs, stagnant incomes, high unemployment and rising cost of living causing many of those living this so-called dream to endure a nightmare to enjoy the roof over a house on an overpriced piece of land a callous government ripped them off with.

M. Maxwell

Source
FM
The political parties in Guyana are at high gear competing for to occupy the highest office of the land.....
The electorate will be voting on issue, they will be voting for continued progress....they have saw for the past 19 years how the P.P.P/C has transform this land, and place Guyana on the path of positively economic growth, brought down the external debts to a manageable level....and continues to invest largely in the social sector....

The P.P.P/C will have to campaign yes.....and need not be to complacent....but the evidence and facts are for all to see....the P.P.P/C has done Guyana proud.....the Electorate will be endorsing the P.P.P/C......a truth the opponents of state are fighting daily...
FM
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Originally posted by albert:
The political parties in Guyana are at high gear competing for to occupy the highest office of the land.....
The electorate will be voting on issue, they will be voting for continued progress....they have saw for the past 19 years how the P.P.P/C has transform this land, and place Guyana on the path of positively economic growth, brought down the external debts to a manageable level....and continues to invest largely in the social sector....

The P.P.P/C will have to campaign yes.....and need not be to complacent....but the evidence and facts are for all to see....the P.P.P/C has done Guyana proud.....the Electorate will be endorsing the P.P.P/C......a truth the opponents of state are fighting daily...
So tell us why the turnout was so low in Enmore last night, albert. And this was despite bussing in more than 100 people. What happened?
FM

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