The PPP are burning logs to hide evidence, they are tearing down websites and withdrawing information from the public domain. Unfortunately the cat is already out of the bag.
They have unleashed their thugs Bynoe and others to intimidate the people of Guyana. The irony in this is that while Baseman criticizes the people of Ferguson he praises the actions of Bynoe who is now his most favorite son in Guyana right Dr. Baseman?
Stats bureau website suspended
Posted By Staff Writer On August 20, 2014 @ 5:15 am In Local News | No Comments
The Bureau of Statisticsβ website has been suspended for unknown reasons and officials are unable to say why.
The timing of the suspension raises questions as it follows recent reports by Stabroek News which states that logging figures offered by Finance Minister Ashni Singh in his mid-year report were contradicted by figures released by the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).
In its bi-weekly report, released last Friday, the ITTO, citing figures supplied by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) said that log exports rose by 80% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year. This revelation contradicts Singh, who in his mid-year report in the economy attributed the 31.3% increase in timber export earnings to βan expansion in plywood earnings.β
The state of the website was discovered yesterday morning and it remained this way until press time last evening. A reporter from this newspaper visited the Bureau around 3:35 pm yesterday and waited for more than an hour to query the development with Chief Statistician Lennox Benjamin who was said to be in a meeting at the time.
When the reporter left at around 4:45 pm Benjamin was said to still be in his meeting.
Efforts were also made to speak to the agencyβs Information Technology (IT) staff about the suspended site but a message from the department referred the reporter back to Benjamin. Eventually, a representative of the Bureau explained that the suspension of the site was noticed by them on Monday.