Did President Ramotar's son messed up the fibre optic cables? 

Mr Demerara_Guy were you the "specialist engineer" on any of these projects?  

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That's what happens when you give contracts to PPP cronies who do not have a clue about doing the job. Does the name Fip Motilall ring any bells?

and how long the ppp is in power it will keep happening and people wonder why guyana is backward

The bell FIP will always ring loudly. It rang so loud that the APNU could not trust anything relating to Amaila. Mr Demerara_Guy has to wait for his project. But he blames everyone else except the corrupt PPP. 

Mr Baseman/Mr Demerara_Guy since you folks have direct access to OP and MOF, please comment on the status of the fibre optic cables. Thank you. 

The Project Manager should be fired for being so inept.

Troubles plagued fibre optic cable project from start – Source

By Keeran Danny
If Government had contracted the services of a firm experienced in the laying of fibre optic cable in similar geographical conditions to Guyana’s hinterland terrain, this aspect of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) project would have been completed about 18 months ago.
This notion was expressed by a reliable source, who also believes that disagreements between Government’s engineer and foreign consultants plunged the project into troubles in its infancy.
According to the source, “Government had never embarked on a project of this type and instead of listening to foreign consultants with the experience and expertise it chose to listen to its local engineer…In the end the recommendations offered by the foreign consultants would now have to be utilised”, the source said.
The source disclosed that Government was eyeing the Brazilian company that laid the fibre optic cable from Boa Vista to Bon Fin and onto Lethem. However, for reasons known only to Government, it did not pursue that course. The same Brazilian consultancy firm was hired to provide its expertise.
Local construction firms that responded to Government’s advertisement for the laying of the cable were given a site visit.
“And, it was at that initial meeting between Government, the contractors and the consultant, the disagreements between the engineer and consultant started.”
According to the source, local contractors left the site believing the project was “easy peasy” and one contractor even boasted that his company could have done the entire project for $150M. The source said contractors essentially believed that the project was “just digging a hole, placing the cable and covering the hole”.
The source said the bids came in and they were really low. Physical works for the laying of the 560-kilometre cable began in April 2011 and contractors began grumbling about their bids. But they continued to lay the cable nonetheless. By that time, the supervisory consultant had changed and Fibre Optic Solution, a local firm, took up the mantle of supervising the project for at least nine months.
According to the source, Fibre Optic Solution promoted itself as a competent firm, but was not supervising the project effectively. Apparently, the firm was supervising the project from Georgetown leaving the contractors to do whatever they wanted.
The source revealed that the supervisory firm usually made its presence felt when Government’s E-Governance Unit visited the sites. It was emphasized that the Unit did not make any impromptu visits and this, the source opined, was its downfall. In addition, Government’s engineer was too involved in other projects and could not have effectively overlooked the project.
The source said at the end the project backfired, with a significant section having to be retendered.
According to the source, one of the Venezuelan companies reviewing the project told the Unit that it would cost roughly US$30 to lay one metre of cable. The source said that was around the same cost foreign companies had recommended in the initial stage. But instead, locals thought that amount was too high, and accepted bids of US$4.50 per metre.
During an interview with this publication, Alexei Ramotar, Project Manager, had admitted that the project had its ups and downs. According to Ramotar, all that is to know has been made public about the project already and the Unit would not be responding to revelations of the source.
Ramotar said he cannot recall who owns Fibre Optic Solution, but said the company had approached the Unit to supervise the project. He said the company responded accurately to all the questions posed.

Yet another project that will require more money to fix. 

Dem boys seh…Whisky mek Prakash see gold

De other day Donald cuss de Big Market paper and de Waterfalls paper. He claim how de Big Market paper represent a set of people who use to go to Georgetown Club and mek decision over whisky. Well de other day dem had cricket in Guyana and de same Donald sit down in de Presidential box drinking whisky.
Dem boys seh that liquor does mek people do strange things. It does attract people who love de stuff and don’t think when dem drinking. Prakash end up drinking wid Donald in de Presidential box at de cricket. De whisky flow like water that when de cricket done neither Donald nor Prakash know who win.

Ah Kneel been deh too and dem mek sure Prakash glass always full. And that was when dem start fuh talk ‘bout Amaila. During de conversation all people see is Prakash drinking and skinning he teeth. Then Donald tell he to look at de Amaila project and see how good it is. Anything does look good when a man drunk. Some of dem pick up some ugly woman and think she nice.

When Parliament meet a few days later Prakash vote fuh de Amaila project and he claim how he understand that de project good fuh Guyana. De liquor wear off now and he telling people how he sorry. But de story ain’t done deh.

Dem boys want to know how much money he get because dem know that he had to collect. De project had more spare money than some car got spare parts.
De same Prakash run to defend Nigel when de nation find out that he was de company secretary fuh Sithe Global. He tek he drink then he claim how Nigel ain’t do nutten wrang when he didn’t see de conflict of interest. Nigel ain’t saying nutten because he know better.

He know that de whole Amaila thing had loophole fuh people mek money. Everybody woulda mek money—de Chinee, de IDB, Sithe Global and all dem Guyanese who help plan it.

Talk half and keep whisky when you talking to Prakash.

JB, Prakash did the right thing. It would have been a grave insult to the President had he refused the invite.

I don't have a problem with Prak. This was a very funny piece and I'm only sharing. LOL! Your boy Ah Kneel was there too. 

I had a good laugh too this Sunday morning.  Wonder if Kruger was there too?

I have to desist from calling the president Rummouthar. The man graduated to whiskey since he became president. 

That is a funny piece. 

What a grand soliloquy by Mitwala on this thread!   

He does have the training to understand the process. He does not however have the management resume to be tasked with such a complex job. He is there because the PPP only hires their kinfolk so we end up with lots of talk and no action.

This cable was ill planned from the beginning. Its need was more facilitate a leech source for the PPP to line their pockets. It is why the facilitated another son of another PPP crook to head a wireless company with a 38 million dollars Chinese loan.

They aim to consolidate under PPP inc, the entire communication infrastructure from TV, radio to telephones. All this is being done while Indians bask in the reflected flow of Indian success ( most remain dirt poor)  and black "leaders" sit and palpitate their gonads as their people are not even left crumbs.

True statement. This whole project was conceptualised to benefit Pandit Reep's sons, the Ramotars and Brian. 

This is the same kangaroo planning they were trying to do with Amaila. Thanks to APNU the tax payers were not raped this time.