the coolie who support this man only see he smile but dem na see how he buggerin dem and getting rich 

Govt shovels US$12.8M drug contract to New GPC

…violates the Constitution, exposes Dr. Luncheon as a liar

The Cabinet of Government Ministers last month blessed contracts for the procurement of drugs worth some US$12.8 million (G$2,677,864,510).

Dr. Ranjisinghi (Bobby) Ramroop

The contracts were awarded to New GPC, a company controlled by Dr. Ranjisinghi (Bobby) Ramroop, a friend with business connections to former President Bharrat Jagdeo.
Three Cabinet Minutes have been leaked and reproduced in the electronic media. The Minutes of the Cabinet meeting approving the most expensive contract for $6,730,526 dated April 23, 2015 was signed by Dr. Roger Luncheon in his capacity as Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Presidential Secretariat.
Drug purchases for the past several years have been done on the sole sourcing principle, rather than the more competitive tender process required under the Procurement Commission Act.
It is estimated that over the past seven years more than US$200 million were spent on drug procurement, with the lion’s share going to New GPC. The transactions raised several questions ranging from the authority of the Cabinet to create contracts for the payment of such large sums, to whether Dr. Luncheon has been guilty of perjury in connection with a statement he gave to the Court on Wednesday, through an Attorney-at-Law.
Under the Constitution of Guyana and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act, during the first four months of any year and before the passing of any budget, the Government is only authorised to spend in each

Dr. Roger Luncheon

month, one-twelfth of the amount spent in the preceding year.
The 2014 Budget shows expenditure of $5,138,857,000 which means that for the four months, the amount which could lawfully be spent was about $1.3 billion. This would mean that in one fortnight in April alone, the Government spent twice as much as it was allowed to spend in four months.
One person familiar with Government accounting noted that every month the Government has been purchasing drugs, so that the unlawful spending is considerably more than the April purchases.
The person noted that while the Cabinet, individual Ministers, the Finance Secretary and the Budget Director are all circulated with a copy of the Cabinet Minutes, the responsibility for the Consolidated Fund vests in the Finance Minister, and it is he who would have to face the consequences for the violation.
Observers have been asking almost frustratingly, and without any answer, for the reason why senior, professional persons would go out of their lawful duties to participate in the lawless transactions in which the only beneficiary is Dr. Ramroop.
The Minutes also expose Dr. Roger Luncheon as having caused to be tendered, through Mr. Adrian Smith, Attorney-at-Law in the Attorney General Chambers, information which he must have known to have been false.
Mr. Smith informed the Court on May 6, 2015 that he was in possession of a letter from Dr. Roger Luncheon stating that he, Luncheon, had resigned from his office as Secretary to the Cabinet and Secretary to the Defence Board on March 18, 2015.
Cabinet Paper (2015) 4.3.J clearly bears the royal signature of Dr. Luncheon, and no doubt he will have to explain the presence of his signature on the Minutes. Otherwise he could be brought up for perjury.

Lucheon needs to be tarred and feathered. He is Jagdeo's bird.

This is a real crooked deal...jeez!

 A vote for the PPP is a vote for Jagdeo to continue self-entitlement, self-enrichment, and cronyism.

These tiefmen have no shame. They mean to rape the treasury until their last day in office.

Speaking of bombshells in the closing moments. This is a killer for the PPP. One more example of blatant cronyism. It all ends on Tuesday. Then the investigative commissions begin their work. All will be reversed and criminals will pay.

Only to be replaced by like minded thiefing criminals. They are all crooks bai. You do yourself a great disservice by thinking they are not all so.

Yes, they are no better BUT no one must be allowed to rob the Guyanese People.  I have spoken about this before and I will have much more to say after the Election. This practice MUST STOP regardless of which Party in Power.

I often say we are accumulating negative karma points everytime we support this chap. He and his buddies are such craven thieves!!!