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Peter should not be taking fall for Paul in CPI position

Dear Editor,


Guyana’s loss of two points on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2021 (CPI) poses a few intriguing questions. Did the arrest of APNU+AFC’s Winston Jordan on charges of Misconduct in Public Office in December 2021 affect the standing of the nation? Has corruption in the Public Sector increased? Has perception increased? In seeking answers, I first looked at how the country’s score is tabulated and the Global Index compiled.
“The Index scores 180 countries based on perceptions of public sector corruption, using data from 13 external sources, including the World Bank, World Economic Forum, private risk, consulting companies, think tanks, and others. The scores reflect the views of experts and businesspeople.”
What’s the source of this?
What I found was that there was a natural time lag. The Trinidad Guardian’s report on that nation’s movement on the CPI stated Trinidad & Tobago Transparency Institute said the score of countries in 2021 was based on data from the year 2020. Transparency International’s local arm, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI), never offered any information on this time gap. Is this a ‘not-so-transparent’ attempt to smear the present People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration for Granger’s sins?
The data submitted to TI for 2020 surely included the attempt by APNU+AFC to firstly rig and then brazenly steal Guyana’s National Elections, using Clairmont Mingo’s fictitious numbers and information that Guyana was run without parliamentary oversight (financial and otherwise) for 635 days. This is specifically between the 21st day of December 2018 and the 16th day of August 2020, when $419 billion was expended during that period.
Those two events would suffice to drop Guyana a few points.
However, I would ask if TIGI reported any or all of the scandalous acts of the APNU+AFC Administration.
Let me give a few examples of what I am talking about.
The Granger Administration began by removing eight (8) containers containing steel owned by BK International from the Ministry of Public Health compound worth millions of dollars. This was done in the first week after the Government had been changed. Further, they gave themselves a 50% pay raise. They fired 192 Amerindian Community Service Officers. They spent over a billion dollars on Durban Park. They gave GRA tax write-offs to companies that financed APNU+AFC’s 2015 campaign. The APNU+AFC Administration entered the 3-year pharmacy bond contract between the Ministry of Health and the Linden Holding Co. for a house in Sussex Street; that is particularly egregious. They paid $1.7 billion as a settlement to BK International for Haags Bosch without an attempt to defend the Government’s position or the taxpayers’ monies. They made a costly but mysterious wind farm deal with APNU+AFC financier Lloyd Singh. They procured $605M drugs from Ansa McAl without following the procurement laws as confirmed by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).
Additionally, they closed several GuySuCo Estates and callously dismissed over 7000 workers. They enabled exorbitant rental of residences for Ministers as policy. Further, Granger made an arbitrary appointment of James Patterson as Chairman of GECOM, in violation of the Constitution. David Patterson, then Minister of Public Infrastructure, handed a sole-sourced $148M contract for feasibility and design studies for the new Demerara River Bridge to Dutch company Lievense CSO. They repaid RUDISA’s (US$16M) claim without any negotiations for a debt repayment schedule, and even though the company owed and appears to still owe millions of dollars in taxes to Guyana. They issued two fuel licences for the importation of fuel to companies that are made up of persons related to top officials and relatives of officials of the Government who have no fuel bonds, storage facilities, or offices.
Further, HDM labs medical supplies was handed a sole-sourced ‘emergency’ drug supply contract worth $366.9M from the Government. Valerie Patterson, while serving as Minister responsible for Housing, gave her husband millions of dollars in housing construction contracts. Government contracts were awarded to Cathy Hughes’s company, Videomega, while Hughes was still involved in the day-to-day running of that company.
Winston Jordan et al played an integral part in the APNU+AFC’s attempt to hide the US$18M signing bonus paid by ExxonMobil. APNU+AFC officials authorised NICIL to transfer numerous plots of State land to APNU+AFC officials and cronies. Further, over 300 want-of-entry vehicles seized by the GRA were sold by Winston Jordan, without going to tender or public auction, to cronies and officials of APNU+AFC. Approval and non-accountability of NICIL and SPU loan of $30B for GUYSUCO. Simona Broomes’s child received a scholarship payment of over $20 million that she did not qualify for, and that payment was made directly into her account instead of to the institution, as per norm.
In light of the preceding and the fact that Winston Jordan’s charges would most likely not be included in the 2021 Index, I can only wonder how much of these events were reported to Transparency International by TIGI, and I would now ask that Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. make public its reports to the parent body for the years 2015 to present.
Further, I ask that they issue an official clarification of the time lag in reportage and calculation of the CPI, as the Trinidad chapter proffered without prompting.
Peter should not be taking the fall for Paul in a matter as important as our CPI position.

Sincerely,
Robin Singh



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Why Cock Robin not explain the upward trend from 2007 to 2016?

The 7000 belong to Clitella class of blood suckers.

If he is so concerned about  the 50% pay raise, he should tell us why his PPP is not eager to reverse it.

Mitwah
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@Django posted:

Guyana Corruption Index

source: tradingeconomics.com

What will Robin Singh conspiracy theory say about corruption index during prior years of PPP/C  in office ?

Guyana Corruption Index

PNCR/AFC in power --- 2015 to 2020 --- from 29 to 41-- highest on record, thus far.

https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/guyana-corruption-index.png?s=guyanacorind&v=202107132317V20200908

Source - https://tradingeconomics.com/guyana/corruption-index

FM
@Mitwah posted:

@Former Member, what is it that the PPP is doing to bring it down?

The Coalition was only in power from 2015 to 2018.

PNCR/AFC/APNU were in power from May 2015 to August 2020.

PPPC was sworn-in to power in August, 2020.

FM
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@Former Member posted:

PNCR/AFC/APNU were in power from May 2015 to August 2020.

PPPC was sworn-in to power in August, 2020.

No the PNCR/AFC/APNU was in power from 2015 to 2018.  What is the PPP doing to reverse the trend of the Corruption Index? That should be the concern and not these erroneous dates.

Mitwah
@Mitwah posted:

No the PNCR/AFC/APNU was in power from 2015 to 2018.

What is the PPP doing to reverse the trend of the Corruption Index? That should be the concern and not these erroneous dates.

PNCR/AFC/APNU was in power from 2015 to 2020 - NOT 2015 to 2018.

From your continued statement -- 2015 to 2018 -- perhaps there was no government in Guyana from 2018 to August 2020.

FM

RE: This thread (Guyana drops two points on Transparency International’s ranking)

According to the report a country’s score is the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean.

During APNU/AFC tenure the scale went higher, so tell us what that means DG?

cain
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@Former Member posted:

PNCR/AFC/APNU was in power from 2015 to 2020 - NOT 2015 to 2018.

From your continued statement -- 2015 to 2018 -- perhaps there was no government in Guyana from 2018 to August 2020.

Mits was too busy with the dead men business to notice. The coalition brought in many dead men contracts for him.

Ali Khan Azad
@Former Member posted:

Guyana Corruption Index

PNCR/AFC in power --- 2015 to 2020 --- from 29 to 41-- highest on record, thus far.

https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/guyana-corruption-index.png?s=guyanacorind&v=202107132317V20200908

Source - https://tradingeconomics.com/guyana/corruption-index

Thanks Guys. I have been looking at it in the reverse.  I confused myself.

The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Hence DG is  showing that there was a vast improvement of the index from 29 to 41 under the PNCR/AFC.

Mitwah

Guyana drops two points on Transparency International’s ranking

Guyana went down by two points with a score of 39 and ranking of 87 out of 180 countries in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released today – the first full year of the PPP/C’s new term in office.

The country however  tops the list of countries that have made significantly positive improvements over the years. In recent years Guyana has been pointed out in the TI indices as one of the better performing countries.

“These countries significantly improved in the last 10 years: Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, China, Cote d’Ivoire, Estonia, Ethiopia, Greece, Guyana, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Paraguay, Senegal, Seychelles, South Korea, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam,” the report stated.

The new report shows that the battle against corruption is faltering with 86 per cent of countries making little to no progress in the last 10 years. It was stated that at the top of the CPI, countries in Western Europe and the European Union continue to wrestle with transparency and accountability in their response to COVID-19, threatening the region’s clean image. In parts of Asia Pacific, the Americas, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, increasing restrictions on accountability measures and basic civil freedoms allow corruption to go unchecked. Even historically high-performing countries are showing signs of decline.

According to the report a country’s score is the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean.

Source & rest of article -- https://www.stabroeknews.com/2...ernationals-ranking/

FM
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@sachin_05 posted:

DG was a former PNC hydroseed engineer so he mastered the PNC counting concept [32>33] y’all seemed to still struggling to grasp theory..

Much respect to Mr. DG. Anyway, you seem to remind me of the posters Goadee Walla and Miss Ivy Leggs.

Mitwah

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