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FM
Former Member

Opulence at the cost of the people

Dear Editor, The trend in the first 100 days reveals a party obsessed with vulgar opulence, beginning with the extravagant inauguration of the President. We were all told that the inauguration at the National Stadium was a private affair supported by the rank and file and by supportive businesses around the country. Every senior member of the Cabinet, led by Honourable Joseph Harmon, promoted the event as being privately supported while vehemently denying that Government resources were used. Now we learn that in fact, the 2015 budget catered for the cost of the grand though the APNU/AFC announces that it couldn’t grant the 20% pay increase promised. It was Nicolette Henry who let the cat out of the bag in Parliament stating that over $7M were used for the inauguration and for T-20 cricket at the National Stadium. Now Ms. Henry backed by Minister Trotman she denies she ever said so. Mysteriously, the signal was lost for precisely those moments during the live online stream of the debate. Ms. Henry spoke out of turn and embarrassed her colleagues by revealing the truth instead of towing the line. Will she be rebuked? Will Ms. Henry be treated like the Chronicle reporter and the Acting Chief Editor who did not follow the script? The vehicle inherited by the Government Ministers seem not to be to their standards to the extent that the new Prime Minister will now travel in a vehicle that costs more than $22M, to see his constituents who cannot afford that with their earnings of a lifetime. The new Attorney General will be getting a new $16M vehicle. Note these costs are duty free charges. Roads are being fixed where ministers live. Home are rehabilitated because they are not good enough for them to live in. Offices are being redesigned, new furniture, new computers and phones are being obtained. Support staff to accompany ministers and help ministers are being employed at salaries way above the regular public servants and all these new positions are “jobs for the boys”. Ministers are travelling regularly out of the country; they miss no opportunity to travel. Unlike the PPP/C Ministers, they travel with support staff. The President mysteriously leaves the country regularly for business that is unknown to the public and even to Parliament. When we add all this up to the cost of maintaining the largest Cabinet in the whole of CARICOM, we see a government that is more concern with opulence than with quality and sound governance. What requires Guyana with a smaller population than Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti, to have a larger Cabinet than Suriname, Belize, the Bahamas and Barbados? The present government also has the largest roll of advisors for any government in CARICOM. Yet this government ended the employment of almost 2,000 Amerindian CSOs. APNU+AFC is paying millions to its friends such as Christopher Ram, to do audits. He earns through these contracted services, over $40M. These contracts were given without consultations, without advertising and tender and are wholly non-transparent. The APNU/AFC spent years accusing the PPP/C Government of living a “Cadillac lifestyle in a donkey cart economy”. Yet, in the first 100 days of their mandate, they have recklessly surpassed the lifestyle of the previous government. Cutting socioeconomic benefits to the people is not acceptable when such extravagances are encouraged by the President himself. These expenses will negatively impact the almost recessing economy, and the huge reserve of almost $US1B, which is now being squandered on bad policies and trivial, pompous indulgences. Guyanese should pay close attention to the actions of the Government, lest history repeats itself and we fall back into a dictatorship rule.

Sincerely, Leslie Ramsammy

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These people are barefaced. Booby the Boob became rich  because his butt buddy doled out contracts to him. This accusation from him and his buddy living caviar lifestyles build on PPP largess is pure audacious hypocrisy. It can only sell because of Indian on black racism. Indians conveniently forget who these people are and where the came from. Ravi, their former vitrolic critic is their general so you think on it.

FM
This government is all about controlling the free press, secrecy, extravagant spending on a donkey cart economy. Guyana is heading for disaster. This is what people are protecting?
FM
Originally Posted by Danyael:

These people are barefaced. Booby the Boob became rich  because his butt buddy doled out contracts to him. This accusation from him and his buddy living caviar lifestyles build on PPP largess is pure audacious hypocrisy. It can only sell because of Indian on black racism. Indians conveniently forget who these people are and where the came from. Ravi, their former vitrolic critic is their general so you think on it.

What right the AFC/APNU alliance have in breaking their promises and blaming the PPP for  them?.  They canvassed on the promises of a good government. They protested, they murdered they threatened that if they do not win the election they will create havoc greater than Wismar.

 

Certain elements of this GNI cussed and verbally abused me for supporting the PPP.  Where are they? why am I not hearing their cried of betrayal?  why? why? why?

R
Last edited by Ramakant-P
Originally Posted by Danyael:

These people are barefaced. Booby the Boob became rich  because his butt buddy doled out contracts to him. This accusation from him and his buddy living caviar lifestyles build on PPP largess is pure audacious hypocrisy. It can only sell because of Indian on black racism. Indians conveniently forget who these people are and where the came from. Ravi, their former vitrolic critic is their general so you think on it.

Supposing that the PPP and their friends were corrupted and benefited from corrupted activities under the PPP administration is it reasonable to dismiss their observations of the sitting government? If the supporters of the current government will look the other way and the previous government must be excluded from making those observation, who will keep the current government in check?

FM
Originally Posted by ksazma:
Originally Posted by Danyael:

These people are barefaced. Booby the Boob became rich  because his butt buddy doled out contracts to him. This accusation from him and his buddy living caviar lifestyles build on PPP largess is pure audacious hypocrisy. It can only sell because of Indian on black racism. Indians conveniently forget who these people are and where the came from. Ravi, their former vitrolic critic is their general so you think on it.

Supposing that the PPP and their friends were corrupted and benefited from corrupted activities under the PPP administration is it reasonable to dismiss their observations of the sitting government? If the supporters of the current government will look the other way and the previous government must be excluded from making those observation, who will keep the current government in check?

because at its core all are brazen lies. Nagamottogot the car budgeted for the office. Ashni has appropriated the money allocated for himself and I guess that vehicle is now in dispute. The lies that the celebrations for the inagural was at state's expense is another. I wonder why they did not comment when indeed the PPP did that all the time inclusive of the Party close out celebration at the elections. They used the state as their piggy bank in every way inclusive of making this  fellow rich. He is the one charging 8 times retail price for wholesale purchases of common over the counter products. He is the one that got 8 million or more the week before the election as advance on for purchases when he is was already delinquent on other contracts. This is the one that gets 3 million a month because Manickchand said he alone has to equipment to deliver e learning. The channel for the most part is defunct over the area it is supposed to serve.

FM
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

because at its core all are brazen lies. Nagamottogot the car budgeted for the office. Ashni has appropriated the money allocated for himself and I guess that vehicle is now in dispute. The lies that the celebrations for the inagural was at state's expense is another. I wonder why they did not comment when indeed the PPP did that all the time inclusive of the Party close out celebration at the elections. They used the state as their piggy bank in every way inclusive of making this  fellow rich. He is the one charging 8 times retail price for wholesale purchases of common over the counter products. He is the one that got 8 million or more the week before the election as advance on for purchases when he is was already delinquent on other contracts. This is the one that gets 3 million a month because Manickchand said he alone has to equipment to deliver e learning. The channel for the most part is defunct over the area it is supposed to serve.

Let us suppose for a moment that it was not all lies (I don't know one way or the other nor do I really care) would the PPP have the right to observe it even with its own checkered record?

FM
Originally Posted by ksazma:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

because at its core all are brazen lies. Nagamottogot the car budgeted for the office. Ashni has appropriated the money allocated for himself and I guess that vehicle is now in dispute. The lies that the celebrations for the inagural was at state's expense is another. I wonder why they did not comment when indeed the PPP did that all the time inclusive of the Party close out celebration at the elections. They used the state as their piggy bank in every way inclusive of making this  fellow rich. He is the one charging 8 times retail price for wholesale purchases of common over the counter products. He is the one that got 8 million or more the week before the election as advance on for purchases when he is was already delinquent on other contracts. This is the one that gets 3 million a month because Manickchand said he alone has to equipment to deliver e learning. The channel for the most part is defunct over the area it is supposed to serve.

Let us suppose for a moment that it was not all lies (I don't know one way or the other nor do I really care) would the PPP have the right to observe it even with its own checkered record?

Dude, Jagdeo is the moral authority on anti corruption. Bobby is the truth teller about the corrupt  practices and Ravi dev is the message maker and editorial writer in chief...do I care to hear of checkered past when I know implicitly these are the worse bitches one can have as the mouth piece of a party? The PPP will not get back in office for another 25 years. The APNU even if they perform with 50% the larceny rate of these crooks will come out smelling like a rose. The US will see we meet the barest minimum financing  to function and creatively we will come up with loans and grants to fund the rest of our needs. These bastards are not seeing the inside of the office of the presidency for another 2 decades and by then we should have controls to thievery in place and the old crooks would have been flushed from the PPP/.

FM
Originally Posted by Danyael:
Originally Posted by ksazma:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

because at its core all are brazen lies. Nagamottogot the car budgeted for the office. Ashni has appropriated the money allocated for himself and I guess that vehicle is now in dispute. The lies that the celebrations for the inagural was at state's expense is another. I wonder why they did not comment when indeed the PPP did that all the time inclusive of the Party close out celebration at the elections. They used the state as their piggy bank in every way inclusive of making this  fellow rich. He is the one charging 8 times retail price for wholesale purchases of common over the counter products. He is the one that got 8 million or more the week before the election as advance on for purchases when he is was already delinquent on other contracts. This is the one that gets 3 million a month because Manickchand said he alone has to equipment to deliver e learning. The channel for the most part is defunct over the area it is supposed to serve.

Let us suppose for a moment that it was not all lies (I don't know one way or the other nor do I really care) would the PPP have the right to observe it even with its own checkered record?

Dude, Jagdeo is the moral authority on anti corruption. Bobby is the truth teller about the corrupt  practices and Ravi dev is the message maker and editorial writer in chief...do I care to hear of checkered past when I know implicitly these are the worse bitches one can have as the mouth piece of a party? The PPP will not get back in office for another 25 years. The APNU even if they perform with 50% the larceny rate of these crooks will come out smelling like a rose. The US will see we meet the barest minimum financing  to function and creatively we will come up with loans and grants to fund the rest of our needs. These bastards are not seeing the inside of the office of the presidency for another 2 decades and by then we should have controls to thievery in place and the old crooks would have been flushed from the PPP/.

Then the Guyanese people are screwed.

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:

They inherited a rich country,

Really, and yet every one else knew that on May 10, 2015 Guyana was poorer than even St Vincent and Dominica, even with their trouble plagued dependence on bananas.

 

Remind us about those huge bacchanalian events which the PPP used to host at the Providence Stadium, paying contractors huge sums to bring in their supporters from Rose Hall.  You know that Freedom House, didn't pay for it. 

 

Even as we speak some of these contractors furnished their bills to government agencies for work done for the PPP, and are enraged that APNU/AFC refuses to honor these invoices.

FM
Originally Posted by ksazma:
Originally Posted by Danyael:

These people are barefaced. Booby the Boob became rich  because his butt buddy doled out contracts to him. This accusation from him and his buddy living caviar lifestyles build on PPP largess is pure audacious hypocrisy. It can only sell because of Indian on black racism. Indians conveniently forget who these people are and where the came from. Ravi, their former vitrolic critic is their general so you think on it.

Supposing that the PPP and their friends were corrupted and benefited from corrupted activities under the PPP administration is it reasonable to dismiss their observations of the sitting government?

Stabroek News and Kaieteur News have loads of credibility to scream about APNU/AFC corruption, if and when they find evidence of it, and I have no doubt that they will.

 

The notion that Guyana Times screams corruption, when they are a rats nest of the criminals, is a joke.  Danyael provided a good response to what they have done, so I have no need to repeat it.

 

ASJ, do yourself  a favor and monitor SN and KN.  GT is like FOX NEWS, and Stormfront.  A source of amusement for comedians, and NOT a serious news source.

FM

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