2000 new jobs in the bauxite industry???
October 18, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters
Dear Editor,
The PPP held a rally in Linden on Sunday. Donald Ramotar said many things. I know that politicians deliver fabrications all the time, making promises they can’t keep. But when Ramotar promised 2000 jobs will be created in Linden almost immediately if he is elected, I decided enough is enough.
It is one thing to make outlandish promises you know you cannot keep, but it is another to make such statements to people in the grips of economic hardships and facing terrible unemployment.
Donald Ramotar and the PPP should not lie to vulnerable people like that. Why do I say Ramotar, Jagdeo and the PPP are lying to the people in Linden about creating jobs? The proof is in the pudding. The PPP has not created jobs in 19 years. It has been worse in Linden. The only people who have found jobs in the past 19 years are those involved in corruption, wrongdoing, crime and the underground economy. Employment has boomed in those areas only.
If you look at the PPP’s 19-year track record, you will notice the party does not care about the people of Linden. In fact, the PPP’s record in the bauxite industry and Linden is one of cutting jobs and depriving people of their employment and benefits.
If the PPP has not created any jobs in the bauxite industry in 19 years, how in heaven’s name does Donald Ramotar plan to create 2000 jobs in Linden almost immediately upon winning power?
I’ve heard some ‘stupidness’ but this has to take the cake. Does this guy think people were born yesterday? All I see in this PPP masquerade is two familiar failed masks in Sam Hinds and Donald Ramotar. One failed on sugar and the other on bauxite.
Listen to this nonsense – Ramotar says if elected to power the PPP “will negotiate, encourage and press the two bauxite companies that operate here to expand their production, to develop new products to have value added to our bauxite industry. And we expect that we will succeed in pressing them in this direction.”
Is the PPP telling us that after 19 years of no job creation by the bauxite industry, the PPP can get bauxite companies to suddenly create 2000 jobs? Does this man understand that the world prices for aluminium have been falling for the past year? Does he understand that bauxite companies looking for productivity and profits will not increase their labour costs?
If for 19 years these private entities did not expand production, why should they in a scenario of falling world prices? If Donald Ramotar is familiar with economics, he would know that the bauxite industry will never increase production when prices are falling. If it does, it definitely will not do so by increasing its labour pool.
The PPP copied this idea of value added processing in the bauxite industry to produce aluminium from the AFC. But does Donald Ramotar really know the astounding level of electricity an aluminium smelter needs to convert raw bauxite into aluminium?
Let me put it this way, if the PPP opens an aluminium smelter in the bauxite industry, Guyanese will have to live with near constant blackouts that will be worse than the PNC days.
If the PPP thinks the Amaila Falls hydro project is going to take care of that, they are dead wrong. The cost of power from Amaila is already too high, with US$835 million already committed and Fip Motilall moving slower than a snail in building the access road. At this rate, Amaila will take another 6 years to build. The cost of power will barely change for Guyanese.
Every nation that runs an aluminium smelter has to subsidise the cost of electricity to these smelters. That will drive up the price of electricity for customers, even with Amaila on board.
These statements confirm to me that Donald Ramotar, Bharrat Jagdeo, Campaign Manager Robert Persaud and others in the PPP simply don’t have a clue. What they are doing is like throwing mud, hoping some will stick. I think the people of Linden already know this PPP train wreck is off the rails.
M. Maxwell
October 18, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters
Dear Editor,
The PPP held a rally in Linden on Sunday. Donald Ramotar said many things. I know that politicians deliver fabrications all the time, making promises they can’t keep. But when Ramotar promised 2000 jobs will be created in Linden almost immediately if he is elected, I decided enough is enough.
It is one thing to make outlandish promises you know you cannot keep, but it is another to make such statements to people in the grips of economic hardships and facing terrible unemployment.
Donald Ramotar and the PPP should not lie to vulnerable people like that. Why do I say Ramotar, Jagdeo and the PPP are lying to the people in Linden about creating jobs? The proof is in the pudding. The PPP has not created jobs in 19 years. It has been worse in Linden. The only people who have found jobs in the past 19 years are those involved in corruption, wrongdoing, crime and the underground economy. Employment has boomed in those areas only.
If you look at the PPP’s 19-year track record, you will notice the party does not care about the people of Linden. In fact, the PPP’s record in the bauxite industry and Linden is one of cutting jobs and depriving people of their employment and benefits.
If the PPP has not created any jobs in the bauxite industry in 19 years, how in heaven’s name does Donald Ramotar plan to create 2000 jobs in Linden almost immediately upon winning power?
I’ve heard some ‘stupidness’ but this has to take the cake. Does this guy think people were born yesterday? All I see in this PPP masquerade is two familiar failed masks in Sam Hinds and Donald Ramotar. One failed on sugar and the other on bauxite.
Listen to this nonsense – Ramotar says if elected to power the PPP “will negotiate, encourage and press the two bauxite companies that operate here to expand their production, to develop new products to have value added to our bauxite industry. And we expect that we will succeed in pressing them in this direction.”
Is the PPP telling us that after 19 years of no job creation by the bauxite industry, the PPP can get bauxite companies to suddenly create 2000 jobs? Does this man understand that the world prices for aluminium have been falling for the past year? Does he understand that bauxite companies looking for productivity and profits will not increase their labour costs?
If for 19 years these private entities did not expand production, why should they in a scenario of falling world prices? If Donald Ramotar is familiar with economics, he would know that the bauxite industry will never increase production when prices are falling. If it does, it definitely will not do so by increasing its labour pool.
The PPP copied this idea of value added processing in the bauxite industry to produce aluminium from the AFC. But does Donald Ramotar really know the astounding level of electricity an aluminium smelter needs to convert raw bauxite into aluminium?
Let me put it this way, if the PPP opens an aluminium smelter in the bauxite industry, Guyanese will have to live with near constant blackouts that will be worse than the PNC days.
If the PPP thinks the Amaila Falls hydro project is going to take care of that, they are dead wrong. The cost of power from Amaila is already too high, with US$835 million already committed and Fip Motilall moving slower than a snail in building the access road. At this rate, Amaila will take another 6 years to build. The cost of power will barely change for Guyanese.
Every nation that runs an aluminium smelter has to subsidise the cost of electricity to these smelters. That will drive up the price of electricity for customers, even with Amaila on board.
These statements confirm to me that Donald Ramotar, Bharrat Jagdeo, Campaign Manager Robert Persaud and others in the PPP simply don’t have a clue. What they are doing is like throwing mud, hoping some will stick. I think the people of Linden already know this PPP train wreck is off the rails.
M. Maxwell
