The PSC is a very biased body. It is a joke and many business people say it is a Jagdeo/Ramotar sham associat.

Its clear to see the joint opposition has slap the private sector in the face, its a sad day when the joint opposition in a country with a "majority" in the National Assembly blatantly voted down the private sector petition......who knows the decision that the joint opposition toke, will come back to haunt them in the future...

You would not know bias if it is etched on your empty head. Cooloie Crabdaag like you always cry like Bitches when Al Yuh dont get it al yuh destructive way.

Why do you take your Friday pay cheque to the prostitutes at Gaumont? Go home to your wife 

Cause I can handle lots of women, including you. Just say Butta Bing Butta Bang Butta Foooookoooooo.

The joint opposition goons are throwing a school of red herrings into the forum in a bid to derail its true purpose. The decision made by the joint opposition in Parliament last evening against the private sector, will without a shadow of a doubt, come back to haunt them....

Go suck a spoil egg. 

Whenever the joint opposition goons runs out of constructive criticisms they resort to hog wash chatter , they are in damage control mode, the private sector bears the blunt of the joint opposition's wrath, now the AFC/APNU appears to wanna rekindle the relationship they once shared.....the PSC now greets them with cold shoulders.

I hope Mr Mitwah can give you a spoil egg. 

Govt. used $3.3B without parliamentary

approval

Quite a slap in the face of the National Assembly, government went ahead and spent $3,384,528,708 to provide cash to several entities and projects that the Opposition didn’t see as worthy of receiving state funds.

When Guyana is placed on the blacklist compliments of AFC/APNU even the best financial backers of the AFC/APNU will be grossly affected. A list of name ready comes to mind....

The school of red herring grows, as the opposition goons desperately tries to derail the thread away from the blatant disrespect shown to the PSC by the joint opposition....

There is need for a snap election. It is clear that Ramoutar wants to hold on to power that he does not have and will not have if the opposition continues to have a majority.

Borapork seh: There is a deficit of trust in Guyana because those in power do not govern with the belief that one day they will be in the opposition. The government rules with vindictiveness and expect to be treated in like manner if they should relinquish power. I see no future for Guyana but only constant repetition of manufactured grievances.

Rama:

The truth is Uncle Ramo is quite happy with the status quo---he likes being President Ramotar---he doesn't care about Minority or majority---either way he is President Ramotar---right now Uncle Ramo is dead set against any snap election.

Rev

Guyana president Donald Ramotar using his office budget to hide paying PPP cronies big $

Guyana’s Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Friday heaped scorn on the combined opposition for rubbishing its petition to the National Assembly for passage of amendments to the financial crimes law.

The PSC said it was “disgusted at the treatment” of the combined opposition of its petition to parliament on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (AML/CFT), and the Bill itself. The business umbrella organisation stopped short of denouncing the opposition, saying that the two parties denied the engine of growth a voice in the National Assembly on Thursday.

“This action reveals an inexplicable contempt for the stakeholders of this country and/or a lack of understanding of how the economy functions,” said the PSC.

The 65-seat House, which is controlled by 33 members of the combined opposition, is being held “accountable for any damage that may accrue to the Guyana economy going forward.”

Government and key Western nations have warned that if the amendments were not passed, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force and the Financial Action Task Force could impose severe sanctions on Guyana which could result in delays and higher costs in international transfers of cash for remittances and the purchasing of fuel, pharmaceuticals and other necessities.

The PSC felt that it had a right to be heard in the House because of its broad-based representation across all areas of economic life including rice, mining - gold and bauxite, banking and insurance, construction, telecommunications and associated services, domestic aviation, manufacturing, fishing, tourism and forestry. 

“The Private Sector collectively is one of the most important stakeholders in this country with a legitimate and irrefutable interest in preserving the health and stability of the domestic economy and it is for this reason - to protect against further economic slippage - that the Private Sector Commission petitioned Parliament.

excerpts from demwaves

A shower of red herrings to derail the thread shame on APNU/AFC goons.

PICHA LAKA PICHA NO PICHA.   PICHA LAKA PICHA YES PICHA

Go suck a ganda egg.

When one examine "Mitwah's" posts its leaves much to be desired, he/she seems to be an expert in cut and paste basically parroting any anti-government tale that flies by, pity on his/her soul. I a wish of most on this forum for he/she to be an independent contributor.

You are fed poop all day and now you come on to spew it here. You have no conscience. You are a person with low or no moral values.

Mitwah....stop throwing red herrings into the discuss, either put up or shut up... so far you have failed to make an independent contribution to this forum, instead you resort to cutting and pasting. I have a challenge for you, lets hear your "independent" view about the voting down by the joint opposition against the AMLFT act.....I dare you

REO executes Govt’s plan to stifle Region Eight

Dear Editor I have observed from time to time that there are lots of negative reports being peddled by certain officials about the  Regional Chairman and Councillors of Region Eight. While it is not the policy of the RDC to be responding to every critic, it is important that we respond sometimes to set the record straight. First of all, the reasons we chose to be Councillors is because we want to assist in the development of our Region, and also to ensure that Region Eight plays an important role in Guyana’s development. To this effect we are prepared to work with Government and all the other stakeholders to make this a reality. However, while we from the RDC are working assiduously in the Region to realize this dream, we are not getting support from the Regional Administration and I guess it is because of politics. Had the Regional Executive Officer been cooperating with us, many of the issues affecting the residents in the Region could have been dealt with at the regional level, since our policy is to deal with issues at the regional level first and see how best we can address them. It is only when we are not getting anywhere that we would take it to another level. Because of this non cooperation from the REO, our every effort to bring development to the people is being stymied. When the GWI contractors  wanted the region excavator to  assist in clearing the pipelines around Mahdia so that the residents can access potable water he refused to  send the excavator. The operators claimed that the excavator keys were lost. After a little persuasion the keys were found and the excavator was sent. Lo and behold the excavator was re-directed a little after to load sand for a private person. When the Councillors wanted the region dump truck to do some self help road repairs  to the inner Mahdia road we were told by the operator that all the truck need was a pair of u- clamp to start working. When we sourced the u-clamp from a private person and took it, we were told by the REO that the truck need additional parts. He then give us a list of parts that the truck needed; the only thing missing from that list that he give us to make a complete truck was a shell for a truck. When the garbage site in Mahdia was filled to the road and the council requested that he send the RDC excavator to clear it. He refused, claiming that it was too small when in fact that was the same excavator the former REO was using to clear the dump site. What is important to note is whenever the region vehicle is required to do any work that will benefits the residents there is always a problem with the vehicle, however, when private persons need them they are always in working order. Our Regional Chairman wrote him of his concerns about his behaviour but he still continued with his anti-development behaviour, the Regional Chairman even wrote the Minister of Local Government complaining about behaviour to no avail. After he was continuing with this non-cooperative behaviour the council was forced to move a motion of no-confidence against him. Anybody with a modicum of common sense would realize that these negative behaviour by the REO is a sinister plan by Central Government to make the region ungovernable because they lost the Region at the last elections. However,  we will remain resolute in our obligations to the electorate of Region Eight as we are prepare to fight the struggle until good governance come to Guyana. We know that one day good will overcome evil. Naieem Gafoor Regional Democratic Councillor

I have a challenge for you, lets hear your "independent" view about the voting down by the joint opposition against the AMLFT act.....I dare you Mitwah

Does the PSC have a say on projects like the Marriot or the expansion of CBJ Airport?  Is the PSC allowed to have representation on the Police Commission and can the PSC review the contracts of the PPP cronies at the OP?

Jamaica seizes cocaine found in

shipping container from Guyana

Friday, 08 November 2013

(JAMAICA OBSERVER).-KINGSTON, Jamaica.- Fifty-two packages of cocaine weighing 57.5 kg, with an estimated street value of US$57,000 or J$57 million, were seized Thursday in a joint operation by Jamaica Customs and the Trans-national Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) at Kingston Freezone.
According to the Jamaica Customs Department, the contraband was found wrapped in brown masking tape in a 40-foot import container with commodities declared as tea bags from Guyana.
No arrests have been made in connection with the seizure, however, investigations are ongoing.

Mitwah fails to give his independent views on the thread, but instead chooses to resort to what he does best...cut and paste in a bid to derail the thread.

Stabroek News, October 7, 2013

Dear Editor,

I was in the audience (as a scribe reporting for community publications) last Friday evening at the Queens public meeting where President Donald Ramotar updated the diaspora on the state of affairs in their homeland and fielded questions.Donald was booed a couple times (for remarks contrasting crime and sanitation with other countries and on corruption) and praised several times. What struck my attention was not what the President said but what he did not do or say. He failed to acknowledge and recognize the significant contributions of some towering New York-based personalities who helped to put the PPP into office and who played a critical role in the restoration of democracy in Guyana. He should have used his trip and or the speech to bring healing to and unite the disparate factions of the PPP’s support group, Association of Concerned Guyanese.

At the Ramotar public engagement, I saw former loyalists of the Association of Concerned Guyanese, support group of the PPP in America, who had a public fall-out with Mr Ramotar and who were very critical of him prior to the November 2011 elections. I know these individuals very well since 1977 having joined them (though I am not an ACG member) in protests, rallies, picketing exercises, etc, against the 24 year old PNC dictatorship. They were a small group but very dedicated to the cause and effective at organizing public actions and several of them attended numerous protest events and rallies organized by myself, Dr Baytoram Ramharack and Vassan Ramracha – all pioneers and founding fathers of the New York Guyanese revolutionary movement that helped to usher in democracy in the homeland. The PPP and Guyanese owe the ACG early activists (such as Arjune Karshan, Chuck Mohan, Mel Carpen, Joe Kanhai, Flatty Singh, Danny Singh, John Drepaul, ‘V’, etc), and later ones like Joe Kanhai, Abudul Hafeez, Chris Sarabit and his brother Michael, Samad Ally, individuals like Ramharack, Ramracha, Joe Ragnauth (DLM), Mahadeo Persaud, Dr Ravi Dev, Pandit Ramlall, Ramesh Kalicharran, Vishnu Bandhu, others activists of the WPA support group, etc a debt of gratitude for their commitment to the struggle. Political struggle was not easy. Very few people were interested in Guyana and we could not raise a dollar from them. Only a handful of us took up the cudgel — unrelenting in our activism to lobby international organizations and governments for the restoration of democracy in our former homeland. Even a Chinese Jamaican, Richard Chin, who joined us in the struggle, deserves kudos. Many of the activists suffered tremendously because of their commitment to the struggle – families were neglected and broken. Because they were so strongly wedded to the anti-dictatorial movement, some marriages ended in divorce. Some of the activists like Ramharack, Vassan, and myself gave virtually all of our financial resources to the movement; our incomes were used to fund activities and print literature for free public distribution. Virtually no New Yorker, apart from Karshan who served as Ambassador to Suriname for over 10 years, who partook in the revolution was ever recognized, honoured or rewarded for their immense contributions to the struggle. A few opportunists were highly rewarded. The ACG splintered after the restoration of democracy and the departure of Karshan who was the leader of the group for many years.

President Ramotar had a historic and unique opportunity last Friday to make a gesture to those former stalwarts of the struggle of the need for healing and a desire to reconcile factions. The presence of some of these ACG founders and activists, once critics of Mr Ramotar and former President Jagdeo, at the meeting was a clear signal of their desire for reconciliation with the PPP leadership but no one paid heed. President Ramotar should have taken advantage of his presence in NY to unite the various factions and to bring former stalwarts together.

Compromise and reconciliation with critics (overseas and domestic) are critical for the PPP especially if it is to recover lost support. The former PPP activists, turned critics, are not enemies of the party. They ought to be recognized for their hard work to help liberate Guyana from oppressive rule. On the issue of reconciliation, the PPP also needs to reach out to others who left (or were pushed out) for whatever reason. One name that comes to mind (and there are several including Lionel Peters, Sasenarine Singh, etc) is the experienced and highly respected Ralph Ramkarran. The PPP cannot afford to lose one vote and it will be very difficult for the party to win a majority in the next election without Ramkarran (given that Moses Nagamootoo is campaigning against the PPP) high in the line-up. And elections are not far away with Moses threatening a no confidence vote, the PNC saying it is ready for an election, and the PPP saying elections will be held soon. Reconciliation with constructive critics and former stalwarts, overseas activists, etc, is urgently needed by President Ramotar and General Secretary Clement Rohee in order to strengthen the party.

Yours faithfully, Vishnu Bisram

Conclusion: Mitwah is brainless and cannot think independently, pity on his soul.

Go lick de butta from Kwamee BT.

Mitwah's post are a true reflection of his/her IQ, its a waste of time arguing with a complete idiot, one must have pity on his soul. He/she is clearly desperate, derailing the threads the speaks of the sinister motives of APNU/AFC

Go kiss Kwamee PP. You are good on your knees. You can't post anything without his permission. Go, get a life miserable little man.

I notice DaCouncsta has something stuck in his moustache.....it brownish.

They may have called themselves PNC in the 1970s and now call themselves APNU, but their resentment of, and hostility and destructive attitude towards, the private sector remains strong, Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh said in an invited comment on the Opposition’s recent stance on a number of major private sector developments.

 “If we examine the facts, during the 1970s and most of the 1980s, the PNC destroyed and decimated Guyana’s private sector. They expropriated the private sector’s assets, intimidated and effectively banished the entrepreneurial class, and completely destroyed the environment for doing business. Their attitude today reveals that, although they are attempting to hide behind the thin veil of a new name, their hostility towards the private sector is much the same, and they remain diametrically opposed to private sector led development. This is perhaps unsurprising, considering that some of their main ideologues remain the same, in particular (Carl) Greenidge as the economic czar that presided over the destruction of the Guyanese economy from 1983,” he stated.

Mr. Granger is acting as the PPP/C wants him to

Dear Editor, The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, currently the subject of intense speculation and national debate, was being considered by a Select Committee prior to the National Assembly proceeding on its two months recess. Despite the urgency that the Bill be passed into law to prevent Guyana being deemed as non-compliant with its international obligation, no work was done by the Select Committee for the entire ten weeks or so from the recess date. We have since learnt that shortly after the Select Committee’s resumption, at a meeting which none of the opposition members could attend, lead PPP/C member Ms. Gail Teixeira, Chairperson, abruptly terminated consideration of the Bill and brought the Committee to an end. Her action deprived not only the opposition MP’s but also members of the public the opportunity to appear before the Committee to present their views. She will now be presenting the Bill to the National Assembly with recommendations that it be passed with all its several and serious flaws on which both of us have written publicly, and one of us made written submissions to the Select Committees of the original 2009 Bill and the Amendment Bill. It is against this background that we express our dismay over a statement attributed to Mr. David Granger in which he distanced himself from the public commitment of the AFC that essentially states that that party would not support the Bill unless the constitutionally mandated Public Procurement Commission is established. Mr. Granger states that he sees no nexus between the two. Fundamentally we find it regrettable that after so many months considering this Bill, the Leader of the Opposition could not bring the opposition parties to find common ground in addressing the Bill, or indeed a legislative agenda that serves the national interest. On November 28, 2011 the people elected them to the National Assembly to make laws as well as oppose any bad laws proposed by the ruling Party. We are not the first to call on these parties and their leaders to get their act together. We share Mr. Granger’s interest in having a proper anti-money laundering Bill that will work to stamp out money laundering. Where we disagree strongly with him is that there is no nexus in the elements of a meaningful national legislative programme. In taking such an approach, Mr. Granger is acting as the PPP/C wants him to. It is more than twelve years since the Guyana Constitution mandated a Procurement Commission; a Local Government Commission; legislation to set a fair mechanism to allocate resources among the regions; and a Public Service Appellate Tribunal to protect the interest of public servants. It is years since we last had an Ombudsman, the defender of the interest of the poor. To call for these immediately is not petty politics but the essence of our democracy and responsible and responsive leadership. We therefore believe that it is entirely unacceptable that the Leader of the Opposition should act in any way that gives support to the PPP/C’s belief that they are free to decide those of our constitutional rights we will enjoy and those which we will not; whether the National Assembly will function as it was intended to do or merely to serve the interests of the PPP/C; which Bills will be properly considered by Select Committees and those which will not; those Bills the President chooses arbitrarily not to give his assent to and those to which he will; if and when we will have local government elections, a Procurement Commission and an Ombudsman; and which projects will be passed through the National Budget and which will be diverted through NICIL. Two years into this new Parliament is more than enough time for these fundamental questions to have been resolved. With or without the Anti-Money Laundering Amendment Bill, the matters referred to above are vital to our democracy and are linked in our constitution. Mr. Granger must therefore resist any attempt by the Government, the PSC or the diplomatic community to designate these as secondary issues. We fear the consequences of not having the democratic and governance structures much more than we fear the consequences of a delay in passing the amendments. We believe that the consideration of the Anti-Money Laundering Amendment Bill which the Government and the PPP/C are now rushing to pass presents the ideal opportunity to deal with this unacceptable state of affairs. It is for these reasons that we propose that the Opposition Parties demand action on these critical issues as a necessary precondition for even agreeing to discuss the Bill and the Principal Act. Ramon Gaskin Christopher Ram 

..........we express our dismay over a statement attributed to Mr. David Granger in which he distanced himself from the public commitment of the AFC that essentially states that that party would not support the Bill unless the constitutionally mandated Public Procurement Commission is established. Mr. Granger states that he sees no nexus between the two. Fundamentally we find it regrettable that after so many months considering this Bill, the Leader of the Opposition could not bring the opposition parties to find common ground in addressing the Bill, or indeed a legislative agenda that serves the national interest. On November 28, 2011 the people elected them to the National Assembly to make laws as well as oppose any bad laws proposed by the ruling Party. We are not the first to call on these parties and their leaders to get their act together..............

The joint opposition (APNU/AFC) has to stop playing partisan politics and get their acts together, by working along with the Government towards the development of the country, Guyana must always be place first