KN is a disgrace.

Shame on KN.

This pales in comparison to the PPP scam:

RE-MIGRANT VEHICLES:
This saw more than 50 vehicles being imported by persons who falsely declared remigrant status - some of these were/are PPP supporters and businessmen who evaded millions of dollars in duty.

KN busted.

They have zero credibility. Shame on KN.  They are a disgrace to print media.

Stealing from the government is a crime.

GFC illegally paid over $600M to NICIL

- “To add insult to injury, the Auditor General signs off on financial statements approved not by the Board which has the statutory duty for the financial statements but by Mr. James Singh, the Commissioner,” Chris Ram

The Annual Reports and the Audited Financial Statements of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) leaves more worrying

Chartered accountant, Chris Ram

questions than convincing answers, particularly as it relates to transparency and accountability. Chartered Accountant, Chris Ram among other critics, upon doing a detailed analysis of the Annual reports of the agency for the years, 2005-2012 all of which were laid in the National Assembly in November, 2013 found several alarming deficiencies and irregularities. But even in the face of these, the reports were granted “unqualified opinions” by the Auditor General. When a report is given an unqualified opinion by an auditor, it means that he has vouched for the authenticity, accuracy and transparency of the information presented to him. The reports reveal that for several years, the Commission has been transferring millions to the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL) and the Environmental Protection Agency, which is against the law. Ram contends that for the $600 million that the GFC allowed to be paid over to NICIL, all its directors should be hauled before the courts while NICIL should be investigated and disbanded. He said that the combination of NICIL/GFC is not only an insult to the intelligence of Guyanese but a challenge and an affront to decency. To add insult to injury, Ram noted that the Auditor General signed off on financial statements approved not by the Board of Directors of GFC which has the statutory duty for the statements, but by Mr. James Singh, the Commissioner “Surely even the most docile Guyanese must have some breaking point at which they say enough is more than enough.” The Chartered Accountant on his website, Chrisram.net said that one would expect Finance Ministers to be zealously vigilant and robustly protective of moneys payable into the country’s Consolidated Fund. “Instead, we have NICIL, under the

James Singh, Forest Commissioner

successive chairmanship of two Finance Ministers, being used to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars due to the Consolidated Fund. There can be no extenuating circumstances that could excuse, let alone justify such unlawful and reckless conduct, fully aware of the nescient (ignorant) state of the Auditor General’s Office,” The accountant expressed. There was also a published series on the said shortcomings of the Commission’s reports done by Janette Bulkan and John Palmer. The duo also pointed to the NICIL/GFC fiasco. In their detailed analysis, they too pointed to the fact that large amounts of monies, and large variations from year to year between line items in the Commission’s annual reports  appear to have been unquestioned by the Auditor General. Bulkan and Palmer said that no explanation was offered as to why the GFC should be holding over US$4 million in cash each year, why transfers are made to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NICIL, but none to the Consolidated Fund. They said too that no explanation was given by the GFC as to why it is acquiring and disposing of fixed assets and why it has current tax liabilities of up to US$10 million in a year – dwarfing other line items. They stressed that there is a legal requirement for the GFC to make transfers to the Consolidated Fund (Section 16 (2) in the GFC Act 2007), but no requirement to send money to the EPA or NICIL. Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Carl Greenidge, in support of their findings, said that this is an important and contentious issue. The former Finance Minister reiterated that the Forestry Act of 2009 makes no reference to either NICIL or the EPA so an explanation is definitely needed as to the relationship of the two entities and their claims on GFC funds. “We need to know what instructions or secret agreements were made to facilitate this blatant disregard for the law. Did the

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo

GFC Board actually take this decision or was it a calculated move by the Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud? The people need to know,” Greenidge concluded. A Partnership for National Unity’s Member on the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources, Joseph Harmon said too that even from a limited review of the reports of the Commission, “it seems like the GFC is another milking cow for NICIL, more food in the trough for Brassington and his crew. As these emerge, Guyanese people see clearly how the country’s resources are siphoned off to a parallel budget over which the National Assembly has no control.” Moreover, Ram had also stated that the GFC is just another example of the perpetuation of Jagdeo’s legacy of financial lawlessness, a situation that is as wide as it is deep. He said that the state of financial lawlessness created by former President Bharrat Jagdeo surely allows for the GFC’s “incomplete and deceptive” reports to be tabled and accepted by the National Assembly without any questions being asked or challenges posed. Ram asserted that the chaos created is one in which the national accounting body, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana, remains silent even as basic rules of accounting are violated with impunity. The state of lawlessness that exists, is “One in which the parliamentary bodies are paralysed by their own mediocrity. One in which we even have a mini-parallel Consolidated Fund called NICIL and where the evidence of slush funds everywhere mounts,” he added. On his website, Ram said that only a wide-ranging, independent investigation into the public financial management of this country generally and of NICIL specifically can stem the relentless decline in accounting and accountability. He opined that the Government will not allow it and the weak opposition will not ask for it but the people of Guyana must demand it. On his website, the accountant provides further details about his findings of the reports of the Commission for the years 2005 to 2012 which were all laid in Parliament in November, 2013.

A most unwarranted attack against the media

The government is the elected representative of the people.  It is there to pursue the interests of the people and these include creating conditions that would make the people contented. Those conditions would include social services, jobs and protection for the people by way of established institutions such as the police and supporting services. Running a country also includes monitoring its assets for the creation of wealth, which in turn would create better living conditions for the people. Indeed, the Guyana Government is not creating the wheel; it has the examples of numerous other countries, some of which were at the same stage of development as Guyana a few short years ago, but which have gone so far ahead that none of us alive would see such level of development in the years to come. One of the most talked about countries is Singapore, which unlike Guyana, has no natural resources and a population fifty times larger than Guyana’s. Today that country is a first world country, enjoying a level of development that is inconsistent with Guyana’s. Our country, despite our best efforts over the past 25 years, remains the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. But this rating needs not be the case. Like Singapore, Guyana sees the need to attract direct foreign investment. Unlike Singapore, Guyana has not applied conditions to the foreign investors that would help the people of Guyana. For example, investors were compelled by law to employ Singaporeans at every level of the investment and to train the Singaporeans so employed. The investors never balked because they knew what was at stake. They saw their profits and the cost of extracting those profits were considered favourable. The Guyana Government has been stumbling from pillar to post when it comes to foreign investors, to the extent that the government has now resigned itself to accepting the terms and conditions laid down by the foreigners. One glaring example was found during the construction of the Marriott Hotel. The Chinese contractor had developed a method of erecting tall buildings without driving piles. Most Guyanese engineers had never been exposed to this technique. Instead of the government insisting that locals be hired among the foreign contracting staff, the Guyana Government claimed that the locals did not have the work ethic of the Chinese. This is poppycock. The very Guyanese opened up the interior so that foreigners can now come in and extract as much gold and diamond as they could. The very Guyanese went to remote places, braving hardships just to make Guyana develop. In any case, even Guyanese labourers were never employed on the Marriott project. It is the same with the airport expansion project, except for the fact that the protest at the Marriott development has caused the Chinese contractors to pledge to hire some Guyanese at the lowest level of the project. Bai Shan Lin, with its investment in the forestry sector, is using local loggers simply because some of the concessions being exploited are held by Guyanese. Sadly, the government holds the view that even this is a good thing, because the Chinese are putting money into the pockets of the local concession holders. We are certain that the local concession holders had no say in what they were being paid. To add to the obvious exploitation of the low level Guyanese labour, we now hear of loggers who work but are not being paid. And despite complaints, the government has done nothing. Instead, when the media highlight the obvious wrongs and the rape of the country, the government attacks the media. Just the other day the government encouraged thugs to attack those media houses that have been critical of the exploitative nature of the Chinese investor. Simple Guyanese who contend to be leaders in the manufacturing sector, before recognizing that there is much more to be had from the sector without the addition of another acre, are content to accept the proverbial crumbs that fall from the Chinese investors. The government itself has made no bones about abusing the media for highlighting the nature of the exploitation. This could only be described as a case of self interest.

How can KN talk about corruption ?  They must take a close look at what they themselves are doing.

Stealing from the government is a crime.

Mitwah is attempting to derail this thread.

Shame on KN.

Stealing from the government is a crime.

KN is a disgrace to print media.

Those who attempt to quote or read this Newspaper should bow their heads in shame.

You are a disgrace for supportin this YUJI.

Waste recycling MOU hits further controversy -Canada company claims ownership of name
November 14, 2013 · By Johann Earle · 20 Comments    Next Article »Print

President of Panther Recycling Corporation of Canada, Michael Mosgrove has rubbished a memorandum of understanding that Guyanese-born Canadian citizen Mohammed Osman signed with the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development saying that he, not Osman, is the owner of the name Natural Globe Inc.  On Monday, Osman was introduced as the CEO of Natural Globe Inc. at the signing of an MOU between that company and the Ministry of Local Government for the establishment of a recycling plant. At the ceremony, Minister of local Government Ganga Persaud made remarks justifying the need for the facility and pointed out that because the country has been developing so rapidly, there has been an increase in waste.

In a telephone call to Stabroek News yesterday, Mosgrove explained that his company Panther Recycling Corporation only recently incorporated the name Natural Globe Inc. Mosgrove said he felt the need to make contact with the newspaper after reading the Stabroek News article captioned, ‘Businessman in waste recycling MOU has only done prototype before’ online yesterday. Mosgrove said that the Government of Guyana should  be wary of Osman and his claim that he is going to build a recycling plant worth US$30 million and which will employ 500 people. “I own Natural Globe Incorporated. … This guy is doing nothing but lying here,” said Mosgrove. “This is not good for Guyana,” he said.

He said that the misrepresentation only happened in Guyana and thus if he leaves Guyana without penalty that would be the end of the matter. “The Government made a choice and I think it is a bad choice,” he said. Karl G. Melinz, Panther Recycling Corporation’s Barrister and Solicitor in Canada, “The name Natural Globe Inc. is available to use. I have also done an Ontario corporate search which came back that there is no such corporation in Ontario.” Mosgrove said that it is folly to believe that one needs US$30 million for a waste management and recycling facility when a similar facility that serves a community in Ontario with a population similar to what could be found on Guyana’s coast costs a lot less – in the neighbourhood of less than US$5 million. He also called laughable the idea that the facility in Guyana would need 500 persons to operate it.

Mosgrove said that since his company owns the name Natural Globe Inc., it follows that it also owns the MOU in its name. “It is our MOU and we would be more than willing to build a facility…we had made a number of proposals to the Government, inclusive of water treatment plant, morgue and recycling facility,” he said. His company has recycling operations in Jamaica and Trinidad.

When Stabroek News made contact with Osman yesterday, he promised to return this newspaper’s phone call but up to press time had not done so. He said that at the time when this newspaper contacted him that he was in a meeting. When this newspaper had spoken to Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Colin Croal on Tuesday, he had said that over a period of time a number of firms had sent in proposals and expressions of interest for a facility of that nature. Those expressions of interest were received by the Office of the President and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment. Croal said that after considering the proposals, it was decided that Osman’s was the most suitable and Cabinet gave a no-objection for the inking of an MOU.

Observers pointed out that it is baffling to learn that the Ministry actually performed a due diligence as part of its decision making in granting Osman an MOU above other companies. They said that because of the nature of the arrangement there is no way to determine whether the Government made a good choice since there is no formal way of finding out what other companies made proposals.

Surprise is also being expressed at the admission by Osman in yesterday’s Stabroek News that the closest he had come to a waste recycling plant was a prototype.  Questions have also been raised as to why the soliciting of expressions of interest was not done under the public procurement laws of the country.

Shame on you YUJI for supporting this:

Businessman in waste recycling MOU has only done prototype before
November 13, 2013 · By Johann Earle · 34 Comments    Next Article » Print

A Guyanese-born Canadian businessman who plans to soon start construction of a US$30 million waste recycling facility and with whom Government has inked an MOU has told Stabroek News that his company has so far built only a prototype of a facility similar to what he plans to build here. And the Ministry of Local Government which signed the MOU with Natural Globe Inc. on Monday could not explain why there was no public procurement call for the facility to be constructed. Efforts to make contact with the Minister of Local Government on this proved futile.

Speaking to this newspaper, Mohammed Osman said that his facility when built and in operation will provide some 500 jobs, most of which will be local. However, the land for the project is still being identified. He is hopeful that Government provides land for the building of a waste management facility and several satellite transfer stations and wants to commence construction of the US$30 million project by January. “Initially we are looking at 500 plus employees. We want to have more workers from Guyana but initially we will have to bring in engineers, chemists and environmental specialists,” he said. “We will transfer knowledge to the local workforce and for this we will seek to recruit persons coming out of the University of Guyana,” he said.

“Our recycling programme is of a new technology. It will not only take material and process for recycling but also manufacture new material which could be used for purposes such as road construction,” he said. He said too that the plant will be able to handle several different types of material and would be able to make that material reusable. He said that everything will be done locally and the material that comes out of the business end of the plant will be meant for local use. He said that only when the local market is satisfied would the material be sent overseas.

“We want to get the public involved…the project is one that is for the whole country,” he said. “We are concerned about the environment and we would be providing bins to households so that they would be able to separate their degradable from their non-degradable waste,” said Osman. Asked whether the company would be asking persons to sort their different kinds of non-degradable waste, he said that it would be too much to ask them to separate the items further. He said that in the initial stages, his company’s workers will be taking on this task. He said that it will take some time to get the Guyanese populace in the habit of sorting waste.

Osman said that the company is still to get the land for the operation. He said that the company has not made a formal application for this and noted that that the MOU with the Ministry marks the beginning of a formalised arrangement with Government to get the project moving. “We have not yet made a formal application but we will do so when the land has been properly identified,” he said.

He said that while the company has no operations in the Caribbean per se, they are providing consultancy services for a company in the Dutch island of Aruba and he said that Suriname has expressed an interest in having a similar facility. “Our project will have a ripple effect,” he said, noting that items and materials that would have been otherwise disposed of in an environmentally unfriendly way would be utilised. “Our first concern is the environment. For the last 20 years all our products have been developed in a way [that is not harmful to the environment],” he said.

He said that while the name of the company has changed from time to time, the entity that he owns has been in business for the last 20 years. Over this period, he said that the company has been doing a lot of research into recycling and waste management and has come up with a patented technology which he would not want to disclose at the moment because of issues of confidentiality. Ask how it is that this project will generate enough returns on its investment, Osman said that since his facility will be processing many materials and not just one or two he is not worried about the venture being able to make money. “If you decide to recycle one product, you dead…but if you recycle many different materials, they come in every day,” he said.

Searches on the internet revealed no results for a company called Natural Globe Inc. Speaking to Stabroek News, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Colin Croal referred this newspaper to Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud when asked whether was a public procurement process or a call for proposals for the facility. He said that over a period of time a number of firms had sent in proposals and expressions of interest for building and operating such facilities. He said that these expressions of interest went to the Office of the President and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Croal said that after considering the expressions of interest, his Ministry compiled them and made a presentation to Cabinet following an evaluation which determined that this company had the best proposal. He said too that Cabinet then gave the go ahead for the inking of an MOU with the company. He said that an evaluation of this company was followed by a due diligence and it was determined that the company was fit and proper to engage with Government on the setting up of the facility.

Croal said that the fact that an MOU has been signed means that there is now a formal arrangement between the company and the Ministry. He said that on the basis of this MOU, the Ministry could now go ahead with the arrangements for the project. According to Croal, the company has requesting three sites on the East Coast and two on the East Bank. There will also be a central location at a site yet to be determined. This central site will house both a recycling and manufacturing facility.

Croal said that the Government is going through the process with the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission to identify lands suitable for the operation of the plant and its satellite stations on the East Coast and East Bank.

Shame on KN:

Or is it you YUJI trying to derail the truth that the PPP are the worst CROOKS in Guyana.  You support these crooks YUJI.  Check this out and juggle you memory little.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...mou-recycling-plant/

The Government of Guyana (GoG) yesterday withdrew the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it had signed with Natural Globe Guyana Inc for the construction of a recycling plant.

The MoU was signed last Monday, and the Local Government Ministry had said that the firm was selected since it was deemed to be the fittest to carry out the necessary work.

But at a press conference today Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon told reporters that after a meeting yesterday

YES, check the other three fingers they are pointing right back at you YUJI.  Shame on you three times.

REAL SCAMPS all of alyu in the PPP.

Minister’s daughter to invest US$15M as business partner – says Canadian investor Mohamed Osman

Govt. inks US$30M MoU with ‘Ghost Company’ for recycling plant…

- Company only registered three months ago, not six years as claim

- Media scaring away foreign investors – Govt.

Natural Globe Incorporated, the company, with which Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to set up a US$30 Million recycling plant here, was only registered in Guyana three months ago.

CEO of Natural Globe Inc., Mohamed Osman

This is a clear contradiction to what the CEO of the Company, Mohamed Osman, told this newspaper on Wednesday. He had previously claimed that the company is six years old but public records have since revealed this as not being factual and that Osman only registered the company, Natural Globe Inc., three months ago, on August 13, 2013.
He had said too that the proposal for the recycling plant was submitted 14 months ago.
Osman yesterday told Kaieteur News that the company, registered locally, has as its directors himself, his son and another female, whom he refused to name. But in a surprising twist of events, the public records disclosed that the other director and shareholder is in fact Adrianna Webster, the daughter of the Human Services Minister, Jennifer Webster.
The names on the business registration were Mohammed Osman, Adrianna Webster and Imzamam Osman.
Adrianna Webster also resides in Canada. Osman told this publication that it is he and this female investor that would be putting US$15M each. He said that they are not looking for other investors and that they had all of the required cash and are just waiting on the ‘go-ahead.’
Asked about the source of his finances to back such an ambitious project, Osman claimed that he is the Vice President of a Canadian Company, Mogford Enterprises, and that he owns half of this company along with a man he identified as John Mogford.
As he made this claim, a Kaieteur News reporter commenced an online search, to no avail, as no website for this company could be found and Osman was at a loss to give an explanation.
Pressed further on the source of his share of the financing, he said that Mogford Enterprise is the parent company for a subsidiary called the Tadger Group International.
While there was no website found for the parent company, one was located for what he claimed is the subsidiary.
When questioned further about this company; details such as contact information, among other things, Osman said he could not recall at the time and would text Kaieteur News the information.

Minister Jennifer Webster

Efforts yesterday to contact the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud proved futile. A woman identifying herself as the Minister’s Secretary repeatedly claimed that Persaud was in a meeting.
The Minister however released a public missive yesterday evening which in itself exposed Osman and again contradicted his claims.
According to the Minister’s statement, “Osman is also an active member of the Tadger’s Fuel Economy Solutions, which is also a key player for environmental management in Ontario, Canada…Mr. Osman serves in the capacity of Technical Adviser to this agency.”
On Wednesday this newspaper had done a search throughout several Canadian business registration listings and nothing was found on Osman or his company.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon in announcing the MoU last week, had said that it was a Canadian Company. The Company was later identified as Natural Globe Inc., registered in Guyana, with Osman as a shareholder.
Osman had told Kaieteur News that Natural Globe Inc., has a Canadian parent company with several branches.  He was however unable to give this publication a name for this company, only to say that it operates in Ontario, Canada.
When asked about the fact that none of the companies he mentioned can be found on the internet, Osman then said that they do not do any “internet ads.’ He said that this was because his company “uses innovative techniques which persons could steal.”
Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud on Wednesday last had also said that he could not say for sure whether Dr Luncheon made a mistake by saying the company was Canadian.
According to the Minister, he does not know if the company is registered in Canada, but he knows that it has a Guyanese registration.
Questioned about whether any investigation was undertaken by the Ministry into the background and ability of the Company to undertake what it has promised, Persaud responded that government is “satisfied” with all the information which was submitted by the company.
“We just needed a recycling plant which is in keeping with the needs we outlined,” the Minister said.   He said that he does not know about the technical capabilities of the company, or about its business in Canada.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Local Government in its public missive deemed the articles written by both this newspaper and the Stabroek News as incorrect, mischievous and misleading and questioned the intention behind the articles.
The Ministry questioned if the articles were meant to scare investors from Guyana.

Stealing from the government is a crime:

KN is a disgrace to print media:

KNEWS is the number 1 newspaper in the country and even though they have been sued a record number of times by the PPP crooks they have withstood all of those baseless accusations and continue to be a beacon of freedom.

Anyone who defends KN should be ashamed of themselves.

Stealing is a crime.

Shame on KN.

Taron posting as Horseman Redux today.  You see what i say.  YUJI catch the disease - INSANITY.

Anyone who defend Jagdeow should be ashamed of themselves.

Quote from the article:

"It appears, therefore, that the Government was cheated out of a total of US$189,000 (US$94,500 times 2), or almost $40M in import duty for the two vehicles which Lall and his wife are driving."

$ 40 million is no small change.

Knews is most readers first choice. I read Knews everday. Snews is my second choice.

did you just say stealing is a crime,no shit

Warria

Where were you bro ? Hope all is well.

You missed out on some heated debates. Anyway, take your shots now.

As for corruption and politics, it exists in every country. I have seen time and time again where one bunch of crooked politicians being replaced by another even bigger crooked bunch.

That said, yuji is 100 percent PPP because I do not to want to see a repeat of 28 years of crooked PNC. 

Listen, Granger still has his bad habits. He just rigged his own leadership race.

And the recent breaking story on KN. That is very dirty of KN.

yugi KN is not the government,its a private enterprise,if KN commit a crime a government worker is involve.

OK bro, let us how this plays out.

Back to the fighting.