The joint opposition in fishing for cheap political points...

Get real! Do you think you aim for caviar taste with these postings of checks to Nagamotto etc? You are about cheap low life character assassination tricks. Even so those are parlor tricks compared to the rise of pradoville and the in your face flaunting of cash we know came from the treasury since these were not sons of magnates.

I wonder how much semen you swallowed in order to come up with the above.

You're doing the same by having this posted twice. See DG's post.

The Guyanese populace will be eagerly watching tonight debate.Tune in now on NCN Channel 11 and online at www.ncnguyana.com for Corruption debates. Tonight's topic is Public Procurement.

Minister Nandlall’s defence of Jagdeo’s Pradoville II houselot is puzzling

Dear Editor,

Please allocate me, temporarily, a plot of space in your letter pages to seek clarifications from the Honorable Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall, on a question he posed Sunday evening to Nigel Hughes, Chairman of the Alliance For Change, during the fourth installment of the seven-part debate series, that centered on the “President’s Benefits and Other Facilities”, being hosted by the National Communications Network (NCN) on corruption in Guyana.

In the debate Mr. Nandlall asked Mr. Hughes what is wrong with former President Bharat Jagdeo selling his property (a house built on a houselot allocated to him by the Ministry of Housing) and thereafter getting another allocation of two acres (or a size approximating that) from the said Ministry.

In light of Mr. Nandlall’s question, Mr. Editor, and as a potential applicant for a houselot from the subject Ministry, I would be thankful if Mr. Nandlall can clarify for all actual and potential land allottees the following: (1) Wasn’t former President Jagdeo treated preferentially when, unlike ordinary Guyanese, he was not prohibited from selling before the stipulated time (I think ten years after acquisition) a houselot allocated to him by the Ministry of Housing (MOH)?
(2) Wasn’t former President Jagdeo treated preferentially, yet again, when, based on Dr. Roger Luncheon’s High Court testimony, a call was made to the former Regional Chairman of Region 10 pertaining to a potential allocation of a houselot, far less than two acres, in Pradoville II?

Mr. Editor, in light of my second concern, I would be intellectually indebted to Mr. Nandlall (who  claimed that similarly to former President Jagdeo, the other allottees of land in Pradoville II could have also gotten two acres if they had so desired, and that there is no empirical evidence to conclude otherwise), if he can clarify for me, and perhaps all Guyanese, whether the call made to the former Regional Chairman of Region 10, is not tantamount to the empirical evidence he sought from Mr. Hughes in support of the claim of preferential treatment given to former President Jagdeo.

Mr. Editor, does Mr. Nandlall wants Guyanese to believe that former President Jagdeo was the only “entitler” to land in Pradoville II who expressed the desire, and had the financial capacity, to purchase two acres at GY$5M per acre? Or, Mr. Editor, is Mr. Nandlall saying to Guyanese that only former President Jagdeo was entitled to sell, before the stipulated time, a houselot allocated to him by the MOH and then be given another shortly thereafter? And therefore, none of the other “entitlers” to land in Pradoville II could have taken a loan, purchase as many acres as possible (since, according to Mr. Nandlall, it seems that “entitlers” could have purchase more than they did), and shortly thereafter, quickly resold at market value, and happily repay the loan.

However, Mr Editor, it seems to me that, contrary to Mr. Nandlall’s arguments, the allocation of land in Pradoville II was done not on the basis of market forces (demand and supply through the “invisible hand&rdquo, nor was it done on the basis of demand through the “visible hand”  (the “entitlers” whom Mr. Nandalall seems to claim were not interested in having the same size of land as did former President Jagdeo), but rather on the basis of “preferential supply” through the “visible hand” (the caller/s).

Cindy Sookdeo

These 40 and 20 foot containers, and Courida Park houses ( top right) surround Jagdeo’s L-shaped palatial compound.

Above water: The women of the Ramdass family gather together on Sunday at Radica’s home in Plastic City.

Anand Persaud in front of his home in Plastic City.

Right here in America we have the same discrepancy in living standards. hahahahaha

B'Gurd, post a pic of a house in America as shown in posts above yours.

Hahahahaha

Dakota Indians living in poverty, hahahahaha

It’s Hooverville on the Hudson.

Like a throwback to the Great Depression, a shantytown has risen in Union City, NJ, on the embankment of the river, plywood hovels with million-dollar views of Manhattan.

“We don’t have it bad,” said Pat, who lives in a 10-by-16 shack with a propane stove. “We get by.”

She and her boyfriend, Frank, 52, don’t have a street address. Their outer walls are blanketed with carpet padding for insulation, and their floors are covered with a patchwork of old rugs. A tattered American flag sits atop their pitched roof.

For them, it’s home sweet home, with no rent and the freedom to drink whenever they want, unlike living at a homeless shelter.

J.C. RICE

SHACKING UP: Shantytown resident Keith Labuz outside his hovel in Union City. Increasingly, down-on-their luck Jersey residents have taken to the hills.

ANGEL CHEVRESTT

Increasingly, down-on-their luck Jersey residents have taken to the hills.

ANGEL CHEVRESTT

 

 

For others, the tent city is temporary, a way station to wait out a bad economy.

Carlos Perez, 42, and Victor Alsamendi Changa, 39, sleep in an encampment just north of Frank and Pat, past the viaduct connecting Hoboken and Union City.

Perez, of Guatemala, and Changa, an Argentine, are saving up for an apartment. “We’re working on it,” Changa said in Spanish. “Winter is too cold.”

Mark Albiez, a Union City spokesman, said that because the embankment is public land, the city can’t force people to move.

“There’s really nothing we can do,” he said.

“There are safety concerns. We try to help them . . . Especially in the winter.”

For the time being, Changa and Perez, who have lived there for about two months, prefer their casita. The nearest homeless shelter makes people who stay overnight clear out by 6 a.m., and the Pentecostal church up the hill requires Bible study in exchange for a bed.

“I don’t have to pay rent here,” said Perez, a day laborer who sends most of his money to his wife and five children in Guatemala. “I’m here with my good friends.”

Their house — which consists of plywood boards, sheet metal and blankets underneath a thatch of vines — is just west of the NJ Transit trolley line that wakes them every morning.

Once they’re up, they hike up the hill to wait on a street corner, hoping a boss will pick them for a day’s work.

Before, they had apartments and steady construction work. Changa lost his job when his boss died. Perez left his when his boss stopped doling out a steady paycheck.

They don’t mind living outside, but only if it doesn’t last much longer.

“This is not a real life,” Changa said.

But for some — like Cruz Melendez, the “king of the hill” who says he’s lived here 31 years — this is as close to normal as it gets.

Melendez, 70, built three of the shacks and lives in one of them. Pictures of Jesus and a horse adorn the wall above his front door. He said living in a home like this reminds him of his first house in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Just not in the winter.

That’s when Melendez stocks up on rum and wine and starts heating his shack.

“I have a little fireplace in there,” he said. “It has a chimney.”

Frank and Pat cook and heat their place with propane tanks and plan to stay put this winter, as well.

Pat works the stove most evenings.

She plans to serve turkey, sausage stuffing, brown sauerkraut and yams this week.

“And a lot of beer,” Frank added, raising a can of Keystone.

They hang their clothes from nails on the western wall. On the floor, there’s a grid made from duct tape where Frank plays tic-tac-toe.

“I do side jobs here and there,” Frank said. “I work at least two or three times a week.”

He worked a steady construction job before this, but then he lost it and got divorced.

“Everything went downhill from there,” he said.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/l...gMqS4M#ixzz25eDj19AC

Very good B'Gurd, very good.

Now, post us pics of huge homes built with the public's $$$$ in a community where only members/friends of the govt reside.

another home in plastic city.

One of the houses being built at Prado 2 by a PPP elitist. 

Keep on laughing with that high pitched voice.

I thought there is no one thoroughly despicable, and that we cannot descend much lower than an idiot.  I have to admit that Bgurd-see has proven me wrong.

Whilst he laughs and treats the needy and homeless with ridicule or contempt, my group reaches out to the homeless.

Shame on you!

NOt laughing at the homeless but laughing at you who try to perpetuate that homelessness and shacks only exist in Guyana, ahahhahahahah.

Excerpt from Maxwell's letter:

In eight years, the president earns $96 million tax free. That is US $480,000 tax-free over eight years. However, Jagdeo was in power from August 11, 1999 to December 3, 2011, a period of 12 years 3 months. At $1 million per month, Jagdeo would have earned $147 million or US$735,000 tax-free during his tenure.

Bump!  Any pics yet?

Oi Butthead battyboy, what's the meaning of the hilited area?

It means jagdeo thief allyou ***** blind and allyou ah joree lagrima pun GNI every frigging day. It's bad when old hard back men keep crying every day over the same frigging thing.

This is what most of us (the ones with morals) have been saying for years, you just realized this.

FYI. As for this " joree lagrima" I for one do not speak whatever language you think you know, so this went over my head.

Cheddi Jagan did not own anything when he came to power in the 1950s. He owned just a home and probably modest savings when he became President in 1992. He arrived in the office of the presidency with nothing. He took nothing as his pay was laughable compared to what Jagdeo paid himself. He left with nothing and he asked for nothing.

Cheddi Jagan’s own son wrote that Cheddi Jagan was homeless and broke when the PPP lost power in 1964.

This is a man who founded the party of these vagabonds now defending pillage and outright usurpation of this nation’s resources by handing outlandish pensions to their master.

You probably wasn't paying attention when Jagdeo built his mansion, it went under your ass rather than over you head. 

You should go after Jagdeo and have him locked up for breaking the law, and you should advise all politicians to do the same a s Cheddi, especially Granger and Ramjattan.

Aright, so you do not know the meaning of words you used so instead you just post shit because you got nothing to do with your hands nuh. Why you doan go diddle yourself...jerk.

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In every society of the world, slums existed, its not unique to this country

barrat dog house looks better than that brother house sad sad sad

You are one dumb ass beyond comparison and help. You act as though your stupidity is a virtue.