This thread should be pinned on top.

This thread should be deleted if you ask me. I am surprise it went on to six pages of repeated nonsense.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport is like a Technical Institute for bribery and Corruptions....It is now going the way of Racial Profiling, sometime I wonder if GRA Sattaur is sleeping or the Minister Responsible is sleeping?

Unless the PPP/C rein in corruptions and Bribery there can be no W.

Simply put, the PPP/C supporters will not go out and waste their time voting.

Simply put...asj apply some pressure to the PPP/C and here we go..bingo . Now druggie can go chop off his goadie

CJIA dismisses three staff for

soliciting money from passengers

Saturday, 26 October 2013

The Technical Institute for bribery and Corruptions

So druggie, all that crap that you were spewing, means nothing, expose the bribery and corruptions and then you see what happens. The PPP/C will jump to get actions.

The Charity wharf was not a fraud.  It began to sink because after handing over, the admin ignored the weight restriction and allowed heavy duty trucks with twice that recommended.  Maybe you can blame them for not thinking of the type of trucks which will use it.  However, people brought in heavier than usual trucks than usually went there.  This was a CDB project.

Was the weight restriction posted?

Yes, and there was a simple structure preventing high vehicles from accessing the outer reaches however, the local admin removed it to allow bigger heavier trucks into the restricted area.

$600M Supenaam stelling collapses again

…loading ramp buckles under weight of trucks

- Vehicles, passengers forced to revert to the old Adventure stelling

Four days after a multi-million-dollar stelling opened to traffic in Essequibo, authorities were yesterday forced to close operations as a controversial roll-on/roll-off ramp buckled under the weight of vehicles. Yesterday, angry Essequibo residents said that it was a clear case of poor monitoring of the almost $600M (US$3M) project that has been hailed by government as a major improvement to that county. Calls by Kaieteur News to the offices of the Transport and Harbours Department yesterday afternoon went unanswered and attempts to get explanations were rebuffed by security officials of the new stelling who referred the newspaper to the Adventure stelling. Operations were hurriedly shifted back to the old Adventure stelling to cater for the scores of vehicles that would have been stranded at Parika and in Region Two, Essequibo, even as technical officials of the Ministry of Public Works were reportedly rushed down to the troubled area to assess the damage. Almost 25 staffers, who were moved on Saturday from the Adventure area in what should have been a positive end to a troubled construction, were yesterday told to report back for duties to that stelling until further notice.

The MV Torani at the Good Hope, Supenaam stelling yesterday. The vessel, which was reportedly loaded around 10:00hrs, was delayed for several hours after a loading ramp from the new facility folded.

The gates of the new stelling at Good Hope, Supenaam, were locked yesterday, shortly after 13:00hrs, and frustrated drivers and passengers alike were told to check with the Adventure stelling. No reasons were given. But sources within the Ministry of Public Works yesterday said that troubles with the ramp started shortly before 10:00 hrs. “There are two trips daily for the ferries (to and from the stelling). The MV Torani came and unloaded without no problems. It was when the big trucks were loading on back that one of the stagemen (labourers) there noticed that the ramp was crumbling.” The officials at the stelling were alerted and checks confirmed that there was a major problem with the loading ramp. The entire end was bent from the weight of the vehicles, a clear indication of faults. According to officials, it was decided for safety reasons not to allow any more passengers into the stelling area and the gates were closed. Persons and vehicles were re-directed to the Adventure stelling. This latest incident is one that the government could do without, especially as the facility has been plagued by troubles, since construction began about four years ago. Although completed two years ago, it was not until January that tests were conducted. Faults were found then with the ramp. However, the facility was handed over to government. At the end of last month, days before government planned its opening, the stelling again came into the news after a second pontoon attached to the ramp sank. Employees of the Ministry of the Public Works managed to salvage the pontoon and it was re-attached last week. The stelling was then opened to traffic on Saturday. Government sources had recently criticized the handling of the construction of the stelling, citing technical faults that were evident. However, nobody seems to be taking the blame. Earlier this month, BK International, the contractor had issued a statement distancing itself from the problems of the facility since government ‘was satisfied’ and a Completion Certificate had even been issued back in January. It is believed that in addition to the original $574M spent on the wharf, a hefty sum was also spent to rectify some of the faults, especially with the ramp. An additional pontoon (the one that sank) was added and officials are estimating that the final cost may have been nearing $600M. Earlier this week, Minister of Public Works and Transport, Robeson Benn, confirmed that the old stelling at Adventure, a fixture for several decades for travelers to and from Essequibo Coast, had been closed and all new stelling operations would be conducted at the new facility at Good Hope, Supenaam. The stelling would have been a major ease for travelers to and from the Region Two area, as commuting time using the MV Malali or one of the other ferries was expected to cut travel down by at least 90 minutes. Additionally, fuel costs for the ferries would have been reduced significantly. Before Saturday, travelers from Adventure would have had to endure almost five hours on the ferries. In a statement earlier this month, BK International said that it completely handed over the facility to Government since January. As a matter of fact, said Egan Bazilio, an official of the company, in a letter to this newspaper, two Ministers of Government and other stakeholders were present in January when the structure was successfully tested with an 18-ton vehicle. The firm said that the sunken pontoon was not part of the design of the stelling and “thus was not built or placed by BK International Inc.” The Company noted that the persons who were working on the pontoon that sank were not any of their staffers. “BK International Inc. built the stelling according to the design and full compliance with all technical specifications. The original design and construction was for a roll-on/roll-off gangway. BK International engineers are of the view that the ferry stage (ramp) should be extended, not the gangway. The ferry stage may also be replaced. According to BK, modification of the structure should not have proceeded without consultation with the design and construction firms.

Is Torani still around ? As far as I can remember, Torani was used for crossing the Berbice river.

This is how the PNC judge Jagdeo in 2010....

Were they off Mark?

THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT JAGDEO: UNFETTERED CORRUPTION

April 4, 2010 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, PNCR Weekly Column

President Bharrat Jagdeo must, at this time, be consciously aware that there is the widespread national and international perception – the World Bank, the US Government, Transparency International, et al - that his is the most corrupt Administration since Guyana gained its independence.

In its 2007 Human Rights Report, the United States Government described the situation in the following words: “The World Bank’s worldwide governance indicators reflected that government corruption was a serious problem.

There was a widespread public perception of serious corruption in the government, including law enforcement and the judicial system. Low-wage public servants were easy targets for bribery.”

There is no doubt that the Jagdeo Administration has purposefully and callously visited on the backs of the rapidly growing army of pauperised Guyanese, a coterie of sheltered and highly corrupt officials and “friends” of the Administration – whether they be Drug Lords or Crime Barons - at all levels and in every sector of the society.

In the procurement process, infrastructural works, in the Ministries and Departments of the Government and in the Regions. Yes, bribery and corruption is widespread and very well known. The favoured and protected officials and friends have continued to enrich themselves, through corrupt means, unfettered by any visible official sanctions or credible efforts to curb their activities.

The unparalleled levels of corruption and the blatant lack of accountability by the Jagdeo Administration is demonstrated by the following scams:

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THE PNC WORD......

CHECK AND VERIFY IF ALL THIS THIEFIG

WAS COMMITED UNDER JAGDEO....

 The stone scam;

 The Milk scam;

 The gold scam;

 The law books scam;

 The re-migrant duty-free-vehicle scam;

 The Cane Grove Conservancy Dam scam;

 The IAST scam;

 The wildlife scam;

 The export of dolphins scam;

 The Polar Beer scam; and now

 The Guysuco scam.

 
The cosseted Narco-Trafficking fraternity - which remain invisible to the Jagdeo Administration and the Police Commissioner, even with the external drug interdiction authorities in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the conviction of Roger Khan and others seem unable to provide the hard evidence needed for charges to be brought against any of the well known perpetrators/barons in Guyana.

AGAIN PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE THE PNC

WITHOUT VERIFYING THE FACTS AND RECORDS....
Apart from the well-publicised interceptions of large cocaine consignments from Guyana in suitcases, strapped-to-the body, in the mail and ingested, the Guyanese have gained international notoriety for:

 Cocaine-in-lumber;

 Cocaine-in-molasses;

 Cocaine-in rice;

 Cocaine-in-pumpkins;

 Cocaine- in-cricket-bats;

 Cocaine-in-fish:

 Cocaine-in-eddoes;

 Cocaine-in-coconuts;

 Cocaine-in-pepper-sauce;

Cocaine-in-curry-powder;

 Cocaine-in-rum;

 Cocaine-in-baking-powder;

and Almost any other artifact or commodity leaving Guyana.

Those who have dared to challenge the corrupt “system” have been cruelly rewarded by officially sanctioned punishment,

for example, the unwarranted dismissal of the Customs Officials in the Polar Beer scam

and, very recently, the dismissal of Materials Manager, Mr Aasrodeen Shaw, by the Board of Guysuco.

As reported in the Stabroek News of 24 March, 2010 “According to GAWU, this comes against the background of dubious management decisions such as outsourcing of certain services to certain contractors;

reports of visible, blatant idling of vital GuySuCo-owned machines;

financial billion-dollar losses and fiascoes of Booker-Tate contractors

and the Skeldon bungling;

not to mention the astonishingly low three percent across-the-board wage increase by Arbitration Tribunal towards the end of 2009″

The calculated failure by the Administration to establish the Constitutionally mandated autonomous Public Procurement Commission, which would have provided the needed transparency and fairness for Public Procurement activities, has enabled the continuation of the misappropriation of billions of taxpayer and donor agencies funds into the pockets of relatives, cronies and corrupt contractors.
 

When the PNCR called for “a forensic audit into the assets acquired by senior Government officials and corrupt business people, which bear no relationship to their incomes and earnings”, the regime unleashed the full force and venom of its well financed and staffed propaganda machinery against the PNCR.

However, as even the arrogant and shameless Jagdeo Administration must recognise, the PNCR cannot be terrorised or bullied into submission.

The Party owes it, as our moral duty and responsibility to the People of Guyana, to vigorously continue our campaign to expose the venality of the Administration.

The reports by the Office of the Auditor General have made absolutely no difference. The corruption express has simply gained momentum. The leakages from the public purse into private pockets continue to grow!

At the level of the President, the Lottery Funds continue to be misused as if they are his private property.

The Auditor General’s 2007 Report provide ample evidence of the orgy of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, illegal spending, and the abuse of the financial rules and regulations.

We also have the recent blatant abuse of the Supplementary provisions, by the Minister of Housing and Water, whereby $4.0Bn was used to subsidise GUYSUCO without the approval of the National Assembly.

The Contingencies Fund continues to be abused with sums of money being drawn from it to meet expenditure that do not meet the eligibility criteria as defined in the Financial Administration and Management Act. G$3.945 Bn was drawn from the Fund by way of often questionable advances to Ministers.

According to Law, the Office of the Auditor General is supposed to fall under the jurisdiction of the National Assembly, through the Public Accounts Committee. The reality is that the Office is listed as a Budget Agency under the Office of the President and being starved of staff.

This is a travesty of democracy and of good governance.

The cynicism of it all is borne out by the fact that only 114 out of a complement of 226 staff were in position as the Office was tasked with extending its mandate to include Value-for-Money Audits.

Further, the National Assembly is still awaiting the audited accounts for the funds used during the 2005 Floods, the Cricket World Cup, the hosting of CARIFESTA X and the recently held ICC Twenty/20 tournament.

As if all of the above were not enough, we were faced with the Jagdeo Administration pushing through retroactive legislation to legalise the brazenly provided “sweetheart” deals for their cronies, such as the Queens Atlantic Investment Inc. (QAII).

It should also be recalled that Guyana Stores Ltd. was sold, in October 2000, for US$6M of which US$4M was reported as received with the remaining sum to be paid by September 2002. However, seven years later, this amount still remains outstanding.

A similar situation obtains with respect of the privatisation of the National Paint Company for which US$900,000 remains outstanding on the purchase price.

Unfortunately, the above are only two of the very many examples where State assets have been cavalierly granted to cronies who have failed to meet their payment obligations.

It does appear that this Administration flagrantly disrespects their obligations to account for the assets of the People of Guyana. The day of reckoning will soon be here!

It is apposite to remind President Jagdeo that “Moon ah run til day catch um!”

How can the Parasites, Prostitutes,

Pimps, Panty Fellas,

Dutty Crab-Louse & House Of Isreal Thugs

come here and tell us ....

THIS IS SMALL POTATOES?

Everyone seeing this Barefaced Thiefing

What a Disgrace.....

and this Big Seed fella

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/31/man-scrotum-show/

is not ashamed to come here and tell us

it is Just Small Potatoes

and his Godey is Small Potatoes Too

you Judge for yourself....

Now Would You Believe any of the Lies

Dem Dutty Crab Louse Rev, Ewe-gee, Dem-Guy,

Kwame Or Big_Seed come and tell us here

There was a man who had a TV show

He robbed peter to pay paul 

So the TV people kicked him out

he now turn to Guyana to run he mouth

This robber man is a timid little mouse

And no better than the dutty crab louse! 

Look here how... A Crab Louse

trying to run from the Truth

If Sugrim is a Man

he would try and "show us one"....

"just one"

of the things everyone including the PNC

now talking about

"Which one is not True"

jalill tearin tail, hehehe

Cain how can I allow

a Crab-Louse who cant afford

a legal subscription on Time Warner
come here and try fuh mislead

all abee here pun GNI....

I check he is not a Subscriber,

ee depending pun illegal Box,

Booth Leg Connection....

This time na long time....

Le eee keep dem Tem kinda lies...

fuh when eee playing with Kwame Batti@.

Dem kinda Games not for us here on GNI.

Cain .....My Brother you tell me if I am Wrong?

He is just pointing out some of the corruptions and how rotten the PPP/C has become since the demise of Cheddi

It goes to prove my point that complicity by bribe payers is what allows the bribe solicitors to carry on their evil scheme.

No thanks to your aunt and you, did you report as advised below?

Against this backdrop, passengers are being urged to demand receipts for payments made at check-in, and encouraged to report all requests for money or bribery by staff of the airport.

Further, passengers should also note that there is no additional charge for carrying frozen or cooked foods in their baggage, unless they are overweight.

CJIA is advising passengers to report any misconduct of its staff to the Supervisors or Managers of the respective Airlines or the Airport Duty Office (ADO) on telephone numbers 592-261-2261/600-7022.

Suffice to say, that you might have been in this world a long time, but you simply lack road sense.

1) Bait the bribe takers and you roll them in

2) Make the world see the kind of shitty airport they have and eventually actions will be forthcoming as in this case....who knows maybe my aunt's

distress was photographed.

Trust someone like you to make the victims the criminals

It will do the PPP/C much good to put signs all over  the airport re:

CJIA is advising passengers to report any misconduct of its staff to the Supervisors or Managers of the respective Airlines or the Airport Duty Office (ADO) on telephone numbers 592-261-2261/600-7022.

The CJIA without this sign is just like allowing corruptions and bribery to be the order of the day:

To arrest bribery and corruption you have to apply a multi-pronged approach.  The stick is not the only means.  Bribery flourishes when there is a large discrepancy in wealth distribution where the workers earn little and have little to lose.  You need to give workers a discernible stake in themselves.  Baseman do not believe higher incomes alone or punishment alone will solve the problem.  The PPP needs to look at ways to award some type of deferred comp with vesting criterion, one of which is the issue of bribery/corruption.  The worker must weigh not only losing a meagre income, or punishment, but lost of retirement funds, soft loans/grant preferences for home ownership, scholarship funds for kids, etc etc.

Nothing will ever stop corruption, in China they execute for it and it still happens.  However, the pervasive and open practice will not flourish as it does today.