I hope some good person tek over Guyana and mek all these nonentyties into really non-entities.

seignet posted:

I hope some good person tek over Guyana and mek all these nonentyties into really non-entities.

Too bad D'guiar dead eh?

Well Jagdeo did follow up on this Land Give a Away and more story get expose.

The preoccupation of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), Trevor Benn, on how documents exposing the massive giveaway of lands were leaked, was the most substantive issue he dealt with, in an attempt to respond to the revelations that were made by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, last week.

This week, during his Thursday (July 4, 2019) news conference, Jagdeo noted that, to date, Benn has failed to prove that the revelations were false.

“His primary concern is how I got the maps….he did not say that the maps are fake…are the maps lying? No they are not…the facts of what I said have not been refuted,” the Opposition Leader said.

Notably, Benn had said: “There was evidence of the commission’s property being on display at a press conference yesterday (Thursday) without any record in the commission to show payments were made for those properties… this is clear evidence that our staff has been corrupted.”    Benn also issued a call to the police to enquire how the documents got into the hands of Jagdeo, since there was no evidence that the documents were paid for at the GLSC.

Jagdeo said, “If the police have to investigate anything. They should be investigating Trevor Benn.”

The Opposition Leader also called out Kaieteur News for attempting to downplay the damning revelations of the giveaway of State lands.  “Kaieteur News was editorializing in their story… a story that came out even before Benn had a press conference to respond to me.”

The Kaieteur News article – headlined ‘Jagdeo claims massive land giveaway, Lands and Survey refutes it’ – said: “…not a single media outlet carried the fabrication about the land distribution.”

CERES CONTINUES TO MISLEAD
On the issue of comments made by Charles Ceres, one of the persons named as beneficiaries of state lands, who is directly linked to the Ministry of the Presidency, Jagdeo made clear that the issue is not personal, rather it was to expose what was happening – the giveaway of State assets in a less than transparent manner.  “The issue was not personal, it was to expose linkages,” the Opposition Leader said.

He noted that Ceres made a statement on the matter, which said: “I, Charles Ceres was never granted lease(s) for any other lands… I was never granted land in Bohemia.”

Jagdeo pointed to the map, evidence, to show that Ceres was not being truthful. “This is not a fake map…his name is on the map with 112 acres….how did his name end up on the map?”

NO ANSWERS
In the meantime, President David Granger persists in his silence on the issue.

He said, “Granger gets a free pass on issues of corruption under his watch…. he cannot not answer when he is responsible for GL&CS and four of his staff members who are beneficiaries of large tracts of land in recent times, in very recent times, some after the passage of the no-confidence motion, in locations that are critical. I pointed out where we had plans to advance development projects, including deep water harbours…the four names I mentioned are persons directly connected to Granger’s office…Granger must answer.”

Notably, the Lands and Surveys Commission Act of 1999, Section 4 (1) (g) states that: “The functions of the Commission are to receive and evaluate offers to purchase or let public lands and to issue, for and on behalf of the President, grants leases and permits to occupy such lands, in accordance with any law regulating the administration and disposition of public lands.”

Jagdeo stressed the giveaway of laws were done in Granger’s name and he must answer for what occurred.

RACE ISSUE
The Opposition Leader also trashed the arguments about race that were raised after he made the disclosures last week.

He said, “In attempt to excuse this issue, they tried to make it an issue of race. For the last three years, I personally and the PPP have pointed out that regardless of race, if you are cronies, you get beneficial treatment.”

According to him, preferential treatment to Indo-Guyanese, including:  Hardat Singh’s company, HDM Labs, being given preferential treatment to secure major contracts to supply medical supplies to the Ministry of Health; Lloyd Singh and the Wind Farm deal, as well as the problems with that project, not being in line with what should be development goals for the energy sector; Robert Badal on the matter of the sale of NICIL shares in Guyana Stockfeeds Ltd. by the Coalition Government; and BK Tiwarie and the Haags Bosch debacle, where a basic lawyers’ letter saw the settlement of an issue that cost the treasury million.

“How come it was not race when we names these names?” Jagdeo asked, adding that the estimates indicate the cronies of the government benefited from over $100B at the expense of taxpayers.

He added, “I said the last time that this is not about race…thousands of people of every race are affected…Eric Phillips got land equivalent to 10,000 house lots…I saw (Minister Annette) Ferguson telling people that they have to wait 18 months to get your house lots applications even looked at….how come others applied and in three months they got it, but ordinary Guyanese have to wait 18 months?” he questioned.

The Opposition Leader stressed that the arguments about race are intended to obfuscate the issue, nothing more.

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cain posted:

seignet posted:

I hope some good person tek over Guyana and mek all these nonentyties into really non-entities.

Too bad D'guiar dead eh?

You mean Peter Stanislaus D'Aguiar -- the man who joined with Burnham in 1964 to form the government and then later he was unceremoniously heavily "kicked in the ass" and out of government by Burnham.

yep