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Jagdeo’s latest secret deal…Land three times the size of Barbados committed to ANSA McAL

February 24, 2012 | By KNews | Filed Under News


In an agreement reminiscent of the secret US$138M airport deal with a Chinese company in Jamaica, the former administration under President Bharrat Jagdeo, in September, signed yet another one…this time for the building of ethanol production plant.
Yesterday, the Trinidad Guardian announced the agreement which was signed since September 30th, 2011, but which has not been made public to date by the Guyana Government. It is not dissimilar to another major deal signed last year with a China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) in Jamaica. The deal only came to light after a newspaper report in Jamaica was published.
According to a press statement yesterday from ANSA McAL, on Friday September 30, 2011 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Guyana Government and the Trinidad-based Trading Limited, for the establishment of an ethanol production project.
The statement said that the agro-energy industrial project will be built on 110,000 (approx. 425 square miles) hectares of virgin land. The island of Barbados is 166 square miles.
“In conjunction with the Government of Guyana, ANSA McAL is currently conducting an in-depth feasibility study, which includes infrastructure and development works; plant and equipment and rolling stock. This ethanol plant is projected to have a capacity to process up to 2,000,000 tons of sugarcane per year and produce up to 40 million gallons (nameplate capacity) of ethanol per year.”
Partner
The MOU was signed by Dr. Roger Luncheon, Head of the Presidential Secretariat; Desmond Mohamed, former Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) and Anthony N. Sabga III, Business Development Executive, ANSA McAL Group of Companies. The signing was witnessed by former Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud; Aneal Maharaj, Group Finance Director, ANSA McAL and Beverley Harper, Managing Director of ANSA McAL Trading Guyana.
“As a strategy for economic development, the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana has adopted a policy to foster the development of economic activities in Guyana in an efficient, environmentally safe and sustainable manner.”
The statement did not immediate say yesterday whether Guyana will be investing in the project. But in addition to the 110,000 hectares of virgin land, the conglomerate, which has several holdings in Guyana, stressed that this country will “partner” with them.
“As a result, the Government of Guyana and a subsidiary of the ANSA McAL Group of Companies, a regional conglomerate, has agreed to partner to establish a world scale bio-fuel project.”
ANSA McAL said that it is expected that through the synergies of the Guyana Government and the ANSA McAL Group, the people of Guyana will benefit through the generation of entrepreneurial service industries, resultant employment and wealth creation for nationals of Guyana.
It will also grant an “opportunity for Guyana to become the regional leader in the development of regional policies, standards and frameworks for utilization of alternative fuels, with the potential of reducing the region’s dependence on fossil fuels. The proposed ethanol project will be well positioned to successfully become a low-cost, globally competitive provider of ethanol to international and regional markets.”
Questionable
There are several projects sealed by the former government under Jagdeo, which are being questioned not only in the manner that they were awarded but with the staggering amounts involved.
This is in addition to the fact that the deals were only made known to the Guyanese public after the agreements would have been signed. Details of many of the projects are still vague.
Some of the questionable projects include the controversial Amaila Falls hydro and its related road project, the Marriott Hotel planned for Kingston and the Specialty Hospital for Turkeyen, whose ownerships and details are also opaque.
Regarding the Amaila Falls hydro, the ballooning costs which climbed to over US$800M, likely to be Guyana’s most expensive project ever, has several question marks still hovering over it with a controversial US$15M road contract to Synergy Holdings Inc. ending in disaster recently with government being forced to take it back because of non-performance.
It will be recalled that in November, it was only after Kaieteur News and other local media houses ran a story of the deal with CHEC, which was announced by a Jamaican newspaper, that government acknowledged the signing.
The government here had chided the company for releasing details of the project and blocked it from speaking to the media.
The project was not open to bidding, since no such advertisement was placed on the government’s procurement website under the Ministry of Public Works through which the airport is administered.
According to the company, the agreement signed will see the construction of a modern terminal building and the extension of the runway by 1,066 meters to reach a total of 3,336 meters.

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Dem boys seh…Is pimping and thiefing all de time

February 24, 2012 | By KNews | Filed Under Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News







People like fuh claim family especially when dem want do wrong things. De Rat guh to India fuh look fuh family because he believe that once he find family in India de people in Guyana would forgive he fuh all de thiefing that happen.
Dem had a man pun de Essequibo Coast. He lef West Coast Berbice and when he reach de coast all of a sudden he claim how he is Uncle Donald family. He put he eye pun a li’l gyal and he call she teacher. De teacher accustom to helping dem big one family suh she set up de gyal wid de man.
De gyal smart. Is when she ask fuh talk to Uncle Donald, de problem start. De man was a minibus driver and Uncle Donald didn’t even know he. De teacher start fuh cry. She did get ketch a time before when a man tun up and claim how he name Wazir Jagdeo also known as Wazir McCoy. De man did ask she fuh some young things and she, de teacher, did get some young boys because she thought he was de Real McCoy.
Nobody didn’t complain suh when this one come she decide that was more of de same suh she find a 15-year-old girl. Dem boys seh that this thing really easy suh dem plan to change dem name to Obama and guh to de headmaster fuh he pimp dem that same teacher.
Some other people calling name fuh seh is dem family. Brazzy deny he own though. When de Feds guh after some of dem in de States he claim how dem is no family.
Is de same attitude mek nuff of dem disown wha dem do. De RAT sign nuff deal just before he come out of office and disown that he sign anything.
But wha got dem boys worried is how de man think he smart. He lying low nowadays because he don’t want people call he name but he doing things. He signing deal in quiet. And all of dem just before he lef office de last time. He signing deal in de Santa complex by night and back date it.
When dem boys seh that he was selling out Guyana people think was joke. De other day dem boys realize that he sell out a piece of land three times de size of Barbados to de people who does mek Carib Beer.
And while he selling, de police thiefing. Ash Knee seh how de Rat tell he to give de police $90 million and he send de money. When dem boys ask he who he give de money to, he claim how he can’t remember if he give Cement or Henry de Yellow. And none of de two saying anything.
Cement had a big birthday party and Henry de Yellow spend pun that young, sexy gyal who now got he in trouble.
Talk half and pimp de other half.
FM
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
Noel,

If Ali Baba comes back to Earth and starts to run a newspaper by the name of "AFC Falls News)would you start running if he tells you the sky is falling?
you is stupid like a billy ram goat
FM
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Originally posted by warrior:
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
Noel,

If Ali Baba comes back to Earth and starts to run a newspaper by the name of "AFC Falls News)would you start running if he tells you the sky is falling?
you is stupid like a billy ram goat


Jackasses like you will one day wake up to reality and recognize that those in opposition who professed to be intelligent and honest men are nothing but charlatans out to fleece Guyana and its people. It will be too late when you wake up. That's the tragedy awaits this country.
Billy Ram Balgobin
Thank you Sir. People can only think as much as their intelligence allows them. OW Bhai dem nah kno bette but dem ah God's children.
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
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Originally posted by warrior:
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
Noel,

If Ali Baba comes back to Earth and starts to run a newspaper by the name of "AFC Falls News)would you start running if he tells you the sky is falling?
you is stupid like a billy ram goat


Jackasses like you will one day wake up to reality and recognize that those in opposition who professed to be intelligent and honest men are nothing but charlatans out to fleece Guyana and its people. It will be too late when you wake up. That's the tragedy awaits this country.
Nehru
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
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Originally posted by warrior:
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
Noel,

If Ali Baba comes back to Earth and starts to run a newspaper by the name of "AFC Falls News)would you start running if he tells you the sky is falling?
you is stupid like a billy ram goat


Jackasses like you will one day wake up to reality and recognize that those in opposition who professed to be intelligent and honest men are nothing but charlatans out to fleece Guyana and its people. It will be too late when you wake up. That's the tragedy awaits this country.
i though that is what happening at the moment in guyana,the ppp crime family is robbing the tax payers blind
FM
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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
Warrau,

People like you have no fear of a return to power by the PNC because you will benefit from their corruption like you did in the past.
grabing at straw,well you should not have sold your soul.now you have to support evil
FM
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According to a press statement yesterday from ANSA McAL, on Friday September 30, 2011 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Guyana Government and the Trinidad-based Trading Limited, for the establishment of an ethanol production project.

The statement said that the agro-energy industrial project will be built on 110,000 (approx. 425 square miles) hectares of virgin land. The island of Barbados is 166 square miles.



I wonder why this was kept as a secret just before the elections in November?
Mitwah
What a Slap in the face and kick in the A$$ for all our Guyanese Brothers and Sisters in Trinidad working as SLAVES(Maids and Farmers etc).This call for an Investigation ASAP,Also another Deal with an India Group of Investers that was also signed by past Pres.(Phamacitical Drugs Manufacturing Plant)
FM
I am not racist against anyone. I have had alot of experience dealing with many cultures. I would prefer dealing with Pakistanis, south Indians and East Indians than to deal with Syrians and Indians from North, West and Central India. They will sell anyone for a bag of potato chips if they get the opportunity.
FM

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