PEEPING TOM: The Alliance for Change (AFC) has some nerve. Imagine, it is making an accusation against NICIL, and then demanding that NICIL prove the allegation.
This is what the AFC’s stance as regards how much money NICIL is supposed to have amounts to. It was the AFC which went public with the claim that NICIL was conceivably sitting on some fifty billion dollars.
Well, if you make an allegation, it is your duty to prove the allegation. You cannot on the one hand accuse NICIL of having fifty billion dollars and then ask NICIL to prove you wrong. This is exactly what the AFC is asking of NICIL. The AFC makes the accusation and then wants the accused to prove the accusations wrong.
The AFC has failed to do this. It had an opportunity to do so and thus embarrass the government on national television. But it was a “no show,” offering the excuse that it does not wish to debate the head of NICIL; it wants to interrogate him.
But on what basis is it going to interrogate him? Is it going to interrogate him on the basis of what he calls “jumbie arithmetic”? Or is it going to interrogate him by asking him to produce the very evidence which is likely to contradict the AFC’s position?
On top of this, some of the mouthpieces of the AFC are now claiming that persons should stick to the fifty-billion-dollar figure, because NICIL has not disproved it. It is not for NICIL to disprove anything. It is the AFC’s duty to establish the veracity of its claim that NICIL is sitting on fifty billion dollars. If the AFC cannot do this then its credibility is seriously tarnished, and it needs to offer an apology for misleading the nation.
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Originally Posted by albert:
PEEPING TOM: The Alliance for Change (AFC) has some nerve. Imagine, it is making an accusation against NICIL, and then demanding that NICIL prove the allegation.
This is what the AFC’s stance as regards how much money NICIL is supposed to have amounts to. It was the AFC which went public with the claim that NICIL was conceivably sitting on some fifty billion dollars.
Well, if you make an allegation, it is your duty to prove the allegation. You cannot on the one hand accuse NICIL of having fifty billion dollars and then ask NICIL to prove you wrong. This is exactly what the AFC is asking of NICIL. The AFC makes the accusation and then wants the accused to prove the accusations wrong.
The AFC has failed to do this. It had an opportunity to do so and thus embarrass the government on national television. But it was a “no show,” offering the excuse that it does not wish to debate the head of NICIL; it wants to interrogate him.
But on what basis is it going to interrogate him? Is it going to interrogate him on the basis of what he calls “jumbie arithmetic”? Or is it going to interrogate him by asking him to produce the very evidence which is likely to contradict the AFC’s position?
On top of this, some of the mouthpieces of the AFC are now claiming that persons should stick to the fifty-billion-dollar figure, because NICIL has not disproved it. It is not for NICIL to disprove anything. It is the AFC’s duty to establish the veracity of its claim that NICIL is sitting on fifty billion dollars. If the AFC cannot do this then its credibility is seriously tarnished, and it needs to offer an apology for misleading the nation.
This took place quite some time ago
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Peeper needs to start looking instead of peeping and it would serve him well. How the hell can one prove without existent records that a specific estimate is correct or not? One can only go with the available date. To say the AFC has to prove what a holding company is obliged to report is not only monumentally stupid bur the reason the company is robbing us in the first place. Ignoramuses as this prick allows it the latitude to obfuscate and detract from its obligation while it convert our nations assets into the private properties of political operatives.
Former Member
| PPP/C looked like Muhammad Ali during NICIL debate |  |  |  |
| Written by PETER BROWNE |
| Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:11 |
| I WATCHED in amazement as the NICIL debate got underway in the studios of NCN with Michael Gordon, as moderator, and a panel which included the Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh; NICIL”s CEO Winston Brassington; chartered accountant and TV host Christopher Ram; Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall and his editor-in-chief, Adam Harris. Great show and kudos to all those responsible for the initiative and the end product. But the show had to go on without the ‘no show’ rock stars, the ones who kept pressing charges of corruption and mismanagement of NICIL by Brassington, accusations of a $50B, placed somewhere in an account , somewhere over the rainbow. What happened to AFC’s Ramjattan and Nagamootoo? I repeated in a letter addressed to the editor a few days ago, that these two are cowards. The debate was not the best in the world, but the civility in which these people of opposite sides conducted themselves, must be admired, as well as the commended efforts of Michael Gordon. NICIL’s Brassington, quiet for most of the night’s proceedings, finally called upon by the moderator, referred to the accusations of, and especially directed to the AFC, as ‘jumbie Arithmetic’, since they, the opposition, cannot come up with one shred of loaded evidence, regarding the $50B. Adam Harris and his bossman tried to get cute with both the Finance Minister and Brassington, asking a basic question, getting a basic answer, but using drama, like Ram, to express his importance to his boss and as a late-entry member of the panel discussions. Of course, he was invited to sit in, because of a question posed to Glenn Lall, who offered a direct answer through his editor. I think the forthcoming answers from the minister and Brassington, confused Christopher Ram, to the point where he was stressing, and showed his discontentment. These people are just plain and simple, ‘PPP/C Haters’. He asked questions, got satisfactory answers, but because these people have it in for the PPP/C Government, not a single explanation was good enough for him, nor Lall. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, all info regarding NICIL are available to the public, yet the same information was totally disregarded by the AFC. They, Ramjattan and Nagamootoo were disappointed that the corner which they forced the PPP/C into or thought they had, was not tight enough for the PPP/C, who danced elegantly out of the way of accusations continuously thrown at them. But like the world’s greatest heavyweight boxer of all time , Muhammad Ali, that’s how the PPP/C looked, in the eyes of the public on NCN Tuesday night. The Finance Minister did a class act, I would say. The man maintained his composure throughout, while Ram and Lall seemed excited and emotional, for the most part. Dr. Luncheon is a stalwart in the truest sense of the word. I loved his style, the way he handled Lall and even Ram, with kids’ gloves, reminding Lall that his paper still stinks, in the most diplomatic form of course. Dr. Luncheon is not a pushover, nor is he a stranger to the type of politics played out by all the opposition parties, now and in the past. Ramjattan and Nagamootoo were both saved by the bell Tuesday night. The referee, in this case the moderator, would have had to come to their rescue, all night long. Guaranteed! |
Former Member
If you fight yourself you can characterize your fighting self in as glowing terms as you can. NICIL directors did not account for our cash or offer reasons why they did not do so in close to 10 years. As managers of what is not their own one can only hazard a guess that they are bumbling idiots. I take them at their words that they are smart so the only reason they do not have any transparent accounting of what happened to the nations assets is because they are consummate crooks.
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