President David Granger, Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge, Director General, Ms. Audrey Waddell and IDB President, Mr. Luis Alberto Moreno, following the meeting today in New York

Smoking mirrors to get some relief due to PNC mismanagement.  What plans have the claim affected?  The fact that Exxon pulled out, well that was very likely given oil prices and was not an economic contributor anyway.  The fact that Venez cancelled the rice contract, well that's their prerogative.  PNC should have known there would be some reaction given they are viewed as hostile.  This is just part of their portfolio of mismanagement.

Can p someone list one possible investor in the Essequibo who pulled out because of the border dispute. These officials at the IDB are not foolish people. They know what is happening. This is all about public posture. The PNC  and AFC killed the hydro power project, cut the bodget by billions over the two years of the  Ramoutar presidency thereby removing billions from the economy. Now they are in government, they mismanaged the border dispute file, the rice industry, increase uncertainty in the minds of investors as to future BOOT projects, their ability to manage the economy, their spend thrift having over 25 ministers and 4 Vice Presidents, etc. What, do they not realize that the economy has to grow to supply tax revenues for social  and physical infra-structure spending increases? To do otherwise will return us to PNC days when they used borrowed funds to finance these infra-structure and did not have funds for recurrent expenditures, to carry out the programs effectively after it was implemented. The result was what the PPP inherited in 1992.

As I said, smoking mirrors.  Sometimes I wonder who they think they speaking to.

Please outline the IDBs position on the Amaila Falls.  They didn't seem to be too enthused by it.

Many oil exploration projects were halted by Venezuela, and indeed a vessel was even seized.  Exxon only managed this last time as the US gov't intervened with threats should Venezuela seize US property.

Its amazing how you endorse Maduro, even as his soldiers invaded Guyana on MANY occasions, at times even ATTACKING Guyanese. This occurred while the PPP was in power.

The IDB AND the UN are favorably disposed to this gov't, for the time being at least.  They find them more cooperative.

The Berbice Bridge was pure PPP corruption.  Don't fool yourself that it was a valid BOOT project.  Ditto Marriott.

If the oligarchs and Jagdeo wish to have a childish tantrum because they cannot run Guyana, as their counterparts in Honduras, Guatemala, and Paraguay run those nations, TOUGH!  No society where the oligarchs use their monopolistic control over the gov't to rape the country, can sustain itself.

What have they mismanaged? You are that nasty vestige of racism that plagues us. Exxon has not pulled out. They insist they are there for the long haul. Even jagdeo's friends smell money so they are still pursuing the search in their zone. I hope they find none during the tenure of their lease because they are another berbice river bridge. We know nothing of the arrangement between them and the state and given it is the PPP that fabricated it we should expect another loot scheme.

The Venezuelans advised they will pull out before the elections. Any pretense that the APNU caused it by some action is not only ridiculous but a fabricated narrative meant to rehabilitate the corrupt PPP. In all their looting of the Petro Carbide fund they made no effort to find alternative markets for rice not did they seek to diversify the products to be sold from rice. They were more intent on their usual habit of being crooks.

Amalia falls needed to be killed. It was another loot scheme. BOOT as fabricated by the PPP is simply theft.

I have more faith in this administration as being the best they can be than in any remote possibility of seeing the state in PPP hands anytime soon.

APNU needs to get its act together though as their support base is getting restless.  The economy has slowed to a complete stop.  The reasons for this have more to do with the PPP.  However people voted for them to clean up the PPP mess.

At some point very soon, we need to hear concrete plans about what APNU/AFC plan to deal with the economic problems left by the PPP. As well as other more long term plans to move the economy further up the value chain.  How do they plan o deal with the energy problem. Amaila was bad, but what's the alternative?

The fact that their corruption will be less blatant (but it will exist, as these old men need to ensure that they aren't living off only gov't pensions, when they stop working).

Word is that this gov't is extremely short of talent when it comes to issues surrounding economic development, or being able to engage the business sector.

Amaila falls projects will be developed in time.

Amalia falls, however, do not exist.

Lacking the components for economic development, a major aspect for forward progress, is indeed another of the large number of handicaps for the current government.