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Surprised because there were no apologies for having the community wait so long for the project to continue, as it was started years ago with $23M being spent laying pipelines.

Jocelyn Morian

The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done.

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:

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Surprised because there were no apologies for having the community wait so long for the project to continue, as it was started years ago with $23M being spent laying pipelines.

Jocelyn Morian

The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done.

I'll finish your post DG


.....The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done....finally a few months before elections.


No need to thank me DG, I'm cool.

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Originally posted by cain:

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:

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Surprised because there were no apologies for having the community wait so long for the project to continue, as it was started years ago with $23M being spent laying pipelines.

Jocelyn Morian

The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done.

I'll finish your post DG

.....The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done....finally a few months before elections.

No need to thank me DG, I'm cool.

You like dat eh? hehe

Great stuff, Cain.

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:

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Surprised because there were no apologies for having the community wait so long for the project to continue, as it was started years ago with $23M being spent laying pipelines.

Jocelyn Morian

The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done.

I am very familiar with conditions in the upper Berbice River....the folks there want to see results and not mere efforts ! ....

on a very general level, to someone without really any material knowledge of what's going on in guyana, just based on glancing at headlines, it seems like there is always "millions of dollars" being spent on projects that never seem to go anywhere. is that true?

You got it correct there. Money gone, projects stall.
Projects promised in election year, might not happen.

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Originally posted by the new yorker:
on a very general level, to someone without really any material knowledge of what's going on in guyana, just based on glancing at headlines, it seems like there is always "millions of dollars" being spent on projects that never seem to go anywhere. is that true?

U think there might be room for an honest person.

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Originally posted by cain:

Money gone, projects stall.

If money is finished, wouldn't projects stall?

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Originally posted by cain:

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:

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Surprised because there were no apologies for having the community wait so long for the project to continue, as it was started years ago with $23M being spent laying pipelines.

Jocelyn Morian

The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done.

I'll finish your post DG


.....The important aspect is that efforts are in place to get the work done....finally a few months before elections.


No need to thank me DG, I'm cool.

Also add that the only locals who will find work from this will be those whose job is to fetch water.

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Originally posted by caribj:

Also add that the only locals who will find work from this will be those whose job is to fetch water.

Amazing revelation, indeed.

DG, This SHAMELESS Katahar must be ignored. I wonder what Planet is he from, animal maybe???

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:

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Originally posted by caribj:

Also add that the only locals who will find work from this will be those whose job is to fetch water.

Amazing revelation, indeed.

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Originally posted by Nehru:

DG, This SHAMELESS Katahar must be ignored. I wonder what Planet is he from, animal maybe???

Addressing the issues is another option, Nehru.

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Originally posted by Nehru:
DG, This SHAMELESS Katahar must be ignored. I wonder what Planet is he from, animal maybe???

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Originally posted by Demerara_Guy:

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Originally posted by caribj:

Also add that the only locals who will find work from this will be those whose job is to fetch water.

Amazing revelation, indeed.

I heard dat lately a certain group of people dem even lower than animal planet banna.
I hear dem rass so low,they could milk a pregnant snake tarass.
Want a hint who Iman talkin bout?

Is the Kwakwani $23M pipeline project to be a white elephant?
By STABROEK STAFF | LETTERS | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Dear Editor,

Two months ago, the residents of Kwakwani were invited to an historic event, being the signing of a contract valued $83M to upgrade their water treatment plant and pipe network. As a concerned resident, I made it my duty to be present so that I could hear about it for myself and participate in any discussion, as this would be a benefit for my community.

At this historic event, I specifically asked, “What will become of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP) $23 million water-line project?” This project involved the laying of a new network of pipelines to replace the asbestos and corroded galvanized pipelines. I was told that this $83 million contract would be used to make individual service connections to the $23 million network and rehabilitate the water treatment plant.

Editor, to say that I am angry and upset about what I am hearing from residents and the foolishness I saw on the ground, is putting it mildly. They are installing connections to the old pipelines, and not the $23M pipelines. I just cannot see the sense in installing an additional service connection for residents to the old corroded galvanized pipe network.

As a participant of the PSRP consultations, from the community to the national level, I was directly involved in this donor agencies‘ funded project. It was virtually impossible for them not to sign on when they heard about the state of the Kwakwani network. After all these years, the non-use of these pipelines will not go down well with the international donors who funded the project.

Even though I am happy and grateful to the contractor for keeping his promise to employ most of the labour force from Kwakwani, I will not accept that the $23 million network of pipes that was laid for the residents of Kwakwani to stop using water from the old mains must be converted to a white elephant.

Yours faithfully
Jocelyn Morian

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