On page 15 we shall deal with how Jagdoe gives away the Assets of Guyana on a platter to his friends and cronies for little and nothing.

How the PPP/C have raped Guyana:

THE HEIST OF GUYANA:

THE HEIST OF GUYANA

Hey you! Yes, you, our valued readers! Please do not miss our forthcoming series about how Guyana has been parceled out and handed out to friends and cronies of former President Jagdeo.
Most of you who have been following the news and features in this newspaper may have an idea of the rampant corruption, nepotism and cronyism that characterized the second term of the Jagdeo administration. What you may not appreciate is how almost every major developmental decision was tied to the personal and selfish interests of Jagdeo and his friends; how the national interest became subservient to that avaricious class of friends and cohorts; how one deal was linked to another and how today what we have is an economy that is in the control of a small band of powerful individuals with strong ties to the then Jagdeo administration.
In this series, we will show you how Guyana has been stolen from right under your noses, how political power has been used to feed the appetite of a grouping that is now firmly in command of the economy of Guyana, how major projects are all part of efforts to plunder the wealth of the country to enrich a few at the expense of many.
We will also establish how certain foreign companies fit into this scheme of things. In short, we will connect the dots for you.
We are doing this because we believe that what has taken place under the Jagdeo administration was morally depraved and should not be repeated again in this country. Unless we expose how political power and political office were used for profiteering and personal enrichment, we risk making the same mistakes under the present and any future administration.
If the period 2006-2011 has taught us anything, it is that we must now be circumspect with major policy initiatives, because what looks like icing on the cake may be poisoned with the dart of deception. The blatant exercise of cronyism must not be allowed to repeat itself again in this country, whatever little may be left of it, following the rampage of recent years.
Kaieteur News is well aware of the risks involved in publishing this series. We can predict the harsh reaction from vested interests, but we believe that we have a sacred duty to publish this series because as our publisher, Glenn Lall, has so often reminded, ‘If you do not stand up for something, you will fall for anything’.

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• best friend Bobby Ramroop

• The Berbice Bridge Scheme

• The Sanata Complex Giveaway

• The Marriott Scheme

• The Media & Telecommunication

• heist of Guyana

Great things are happening in Guyana

July 10, 2009 Peeping Tom 

Why are persons being critical of press freedom in Guyana? Why? Guyana has the freest press in the world. The press is so free in Guyana that some of them are operating virtually free of expenses.[Come on Rev, Ewe-gee, Kwame & the Other Batty Boys & Crab Louse…. lets hear it from the boys……and lets Give the Boys a Hand]

One company is being floated by government ads even though its circulation is less than two thousand per day. These two thousand copies, it is estimated, would cost the company a variable cost of about $100,000 per day but with the close to one million ($1,000,000) in ads that it gets from the government each day, it is able to not only cover its variable and fixed costs but also to make a whopping profit. [Is this the Company that was started up by Jagdeo Personal Friends, is it the same company involved in the Illegal Purchase of Govt Property which was Exposed by Yesu Persaud….. Remember the Comander –in –thief  Cuss out Yesu for exposing the Illegal sale to his Friend …… then Jagdeo Railroaded the sale in Parliarment to make it seem legal or Kosha.]

On top of that, the company enjoys a great deal of printing jobs from its friends in high places thus allowing the company greater profitability. A great many printing jobs are going its way. This company is doing well. It is a success story. No media outlet in the world can boast that it has such a supportive environment. [ Jagdeo say PNC thief nonstop for 28 years……..so under him it’s just Business as Usual with a PPP or PNC Govt]

And this is why the Alliance For Change should seriously withdraw its charge about the lack of press freedom in Guyana. It is simply not true. Where else in the world would you find media houses being so unashamedly subsidized?.........[Exactly, this is Rev & Kwame’s Logic……..further AFC lucky Jagdeo only thief one seat from them in the 2006 Elections…..so them should shut them mouth and keep quiet]

Where else in the world would you find media houses being so buoyed by support such as what exists in Guyana?.....................[ Only in Guyana Under Jagdeo…..and that’s what Friends are for…….Keep smiling…..Knowing you can always count on Govt as long as Jagdeo Large-and-In-charge.]

But this is not the only positive thing that is happening in Guyana. There are a great other many good things also happening in Guyana. We have some very good Ministers in the country and they are doing a fantastic job with the very limited resources at their disposal…………..[ Rohee & Nanda-lall, Benn & Brassington, Man-ni-ram & Webster , Kill-o-wan-large & Kwame,  La-mum-ba & Lamb-bad-da ….. all them bhai Bad fuh Days ]

This is why it is surprising that the Office of the Auditor General would highlight minor issues in his audit about bank accounts being overdrawn. Why should this be a problem? The reason why these accounts are overdrawn is because enough funds were not allocated in the first place to cater for the great amount of work that had to be done………….[ We have to Agree with Rev, Kwame and them ………Jagdeo, Ramotar and his Ministers were never charged by the Police…… Forget about the Auditor General…. He wicked ]

We have Ministries that are spending a great deal of money and they are busy doing so. They are serving the people of this country and because there is so much work being done, it is to be expected that in some instances there will be minor administrative details that will be left unattended to.

 Come on Mr. Auditor General, you have to show more understanding!................[ Mr Auditor General how come you miss Jagdeo Fruad Wedding which he pull pon de Hindus in Guyana…..dem Muslim Bhai would have`sling him up fuh disrespecting them sister like that……Just Imagine how Butty-Bhai Lucky, them hindu really understanding and forgiving]

Each day we wake up we learn of the wonderful work that the government is doing to help the people of this country. Money is being spent to improve health care, education and buy the pumps to bring an end to the sewage problems. These pumps could not be brought in earlier because if you have to buy the pumps individually, it would be more costly than if you have to buy them in bulk…………..[ Judge fuh yuh-self……where de money going…..Rev & Kwame say nuff pumping going on…..]

Money has to be found also to host all those consultations of the Low-Carbon Development Strategy. With this strategy Guyana will make money. So we have to spend money to make money………………[and den spending it, left, right and center…. Rev & Kwame saying …aya must….just stop asking question]

One Ministry that understands the importance of investing to make money is the former Ministry of Agriculture…..Now Minister of Oil & Pumping… That Ministry is investing in our future……………..[and more so his future,  the Baby MBA’s  were born in USA……..AMERICAN CITIZEN…….and Aunty-man say Moses Driving a Bentley in Guyana….3 year ago ]

One presumptuous person dared question the success of the Grow More Food Campaign using figures supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture, but forgot to mention that had it not been for climate change the numbers would have been different…………….[ Dem bhai got answer fuh every-thing]

The Grow More Food Campaign is successful but is being affected by the climate change and all the carbon that is being given out which is damaging the crops and causing it to appear as if production is not increasing…………[so don’t talk about corruption, thiefing and mis-management under Robert and Uncle Bharat]

Billions are being spent on the agricultural sector. But these lazy reporters we have in this country are not reporting on how this money is being spent to benefit the people of this country………….[ de problem is the Free Press and them Lazy reporters]

All they want to do is to go to the press conferences and stay silent. How are Guyanese then to know about all the seeds that are being distributed and…… the pumping that is taking place to drain the farmlands of excessive water?...................[ Nuff PUMPING going on between Robert and Jagdeo……Rev & Kwame]

These reporters need to go out and find out how these billions are being spent so that the Guyanese people can celebrate that they have a hard-working and caring government that is accounting for every cent that is spent………………………[Rev & Co tell abee where them Pumping again]

Instead of concentrating on these efforts, the media seems obsessed with where the Lotto Funds are and why it is not being paid into the Consolidated Fund. The reason is simple.
The Consolidated Fund is already consolidated and cannot hold any more money. This is why the Lotto Funds are not being put in to the Consolidated Fund……………[ What A Jerk off the Nation witnessing with Jagdeo…….. Insulting de Hindus and Pumping  them fuh keep them quiet]

Jagdeo & Rev know how fuh pump dem Hindu.

Dem say dem is "House of Isreal Hindu"...

Rev say Jagdeo is dem Pundit....

It is time to put a cap on the PPP gravy train

Dear Editor, That video from Channel 8 News, Berbice with the voice of a sugar worker explaining the plight of the people clearly highlights why many of us are in politics; notwithstanding we suffer personal attack quite illegitimately by the compromised forces in the PPP.  This video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...klK_MmXI—JZqrg and the real message starts at about four minutes into the video. In the past decade, technology has reshaped so many economies, yet the sugar belt seems to be stuck in pre-historic days. As the global market takes shape, Guyana always seem to have too little money for critical valued-added items such as wages for its workers, the re-shaping of the planting beds to adopt new technologies and research into scientific techniques to make the industry more efficient.  But As Mr. Paulton Austin, the GAWU Rose Hall representative highlighted, they have millions for the likes of Raj Singh who manages Guysuco by remote control from New Jersey, USA. If these trends persist, Guysuco will have far too few workers on their payroll to meet production targets and the industry will suffer even more, all because the PPP just does not get the basics as outlined by Mr. Austin,  “the roots of the sugar industry, just like a tree, is what holds the sugar industry up; trim the top!” I have been writing on this message for years and thus it is not that the PPP is ignorant of the facts; they are just plain wicked as they remain committed to compromise vested interest, political friends and business interests.  Real Guyana is the least of their concern.  It was in service to those vested interests, political friends and business interests that a Chinese firm was commissioned to spend some G$44 billion to build a white elephant at Skeldon, when an Indian, Brazilian or South African firm would have done a much better job for less money. That is why the majority opposition has to remain firm and unyielding on the Public Procurement Commission; it is time to put a cap on the PPP gravy train and all those billion dollar beach front properties owned and controlled by the white collar criminals who stole them from the people.  Sasenarine Singh

Robert Persaud Admit the PPP took some good blows at the last elections.

He further admit the PPP is losing political support daily and he was their Campaign manager.

Who is Rev, Ewe-Gee, Big-Seed, Skeldon, Kwame or Councie to tell us differently.

Local govt poll delay costing PPP- Robert Persaud

• Monday, 18 November 2013 23:54

Minister of Natural Resource Robert Persaud flanked by senior officials of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, Guyana Forestry Commission and the President of the Georgetown Chamber  of Commerce at the Stakerholders Forum

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“Politically, we lose every single day with the current state of local government bodies in terms of their lack of effective functioning,” he said.

Heist of the telecoms, media sector…AFC looking to strike out mandatory licences for Jagdeo’s friends

- We will move to change this criminal nonsense – Ramjattan

Legislators, studying measures that will allow new operators to enter the local telecommunications

AFC’s Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

market, have vowed to make critical changes before new proposed changes are voted on.
This is following shocking revelations over the weekend that Telecommunications Licences will be handed to four companies, three of which share close ties to former President Bharrat Jagdeo.
The three companies, Quark Communications Inc., Global Technology’s i-Net Communications and E-Networks armed with such a licence would be able to compete directly with Digicel and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), once the laws are passed in the National Assembly and assented to by President Donald Ramotar.
More glaring is that the three companies would have been rapidly expanding their distribution network knowing that the proposed changes in the law mandates that they would be given a licence while others interested in the market would have been restricted.
Following complaints that telecoms players were kept in the dark about the proposed licences, Kaieteur News in its investigations and subsequent exposure over the past few weeks made some startling revelations.
Registration documents filed with Government found that all three companies were filled with shareholders who have known ties with Jagdeo with at least one person being directly related.
With Government unveiling an aggressive project to connect 90,000 poor families with internet, any company receiving a telecoms licence will be poised to capitalize also on the mobile phone market, an area

Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop

that is jealously guarded by the current companies and worth billions of dollars.
Recently, after several months in limbo in the National Assembly amidst ongoing negotiations with both GT&T and Digicel, Government re-tabled legislations to break the former’s 20 year-old monopoly on landline and international calls.
The Opposition, however, sent the proposed changes to the law to a Special Parliamentary Select Committee saying that it wanted to study it further.
Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, yesterday told this publication that his party, which controls seven of the 65 seats in the National Assembly, had found it strange that Government had decided upfront who are the four companies that will be receiving licences.
“A telecoms licence is not a joke that is handed willy-nilly to anyone…We are supposed to have an open, transparent system allowing everyone to have a chance to compete.”
Ramjattan said that “to decide beforehand who you want to operate in the market is indeed strange and worrying…We can draw some conclusions from this…We will move to make some changes to change this criminal nonsense.” Ramjattan’s worry is not unfounded.
Jagdeo’s best friend, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, is a director in Global Technology.  Quark has its operations running out of Ramroops’ property at Versailles, West Bank Demerara.
Winston Brassington, a controversial figure who spearheaded a number of large scale projects for Government including the Marriott Hotel and the troubled Amaila Falls hydro facility, is a central figure in Quark.
Quark’s main founder is Brian Yong. He is known to be a close friend of Jagdeo and was even on his party’s elections campaign as a candidate in 2011.
Vishok Persaud, a main principal in E-Networks, is also a close friend of the former President and the son of a former party stalwart, the late Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud.
Already, both E-Networks and Quark have been awarded licences for operating cable TV. The controversial approvals were made days before Jagdeo ended his Presidential term of office in 2011 when he also greenlighted the operations of several radio stations, most of them going to persons and companies with close ties to the ruling party.
Several established media houses who had applied for licences, including Kaieteur News, Stabroek News

From left: E-Network’s Vishok Persaud, Bharrat Jagdeo and Quark’s Brian Yong

and CNS 6, were overlooked in the 2011 decision by the former president.
“To place this much power under unclear circumstances in a few persons’ hands is highly dangerous, and not only to national security. We already know how much resentment this has generated in the minds of Guyanese.
“I do believe that these actions by the former President were never intended to come to light; it is only through the good works of Kaieteur News that we know now.”
According to Ramjattan, the control of the state media by Government has increasingly become a dangerous one as the Opposition is sidelined from airing their views.
“We are allowed little or no access to send our message to the people who are the real owner of the state media.”
The MP made it clear that Government nor any companies should not consider it a done deal that any licence is automatic.
“I want to make it clear that is highly irregular. It is not a done deal and is evidence of the eye-pass and totally disregard of the Guyanese people…This administration have been operating as if they are a law unto themselves,”

Winston Brassington

said Ramjattan
Earlier this year, Opposition Leader, Brigadier (ret’d) David Granger, prepared a report of almost 100 cases of bias by the state-owned Government Information Agency (GINA).
For the second consecutive year, the Opposition reduced the budget of GINA, citing unhappiness over its operations.

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Black House of Isreal Hindu Killer

allowed to run free in Guyana

Guyana most corrupt country in

English-speaking Caribbean

-watchdog body calls for Procurement Commission, new Integrity Commission,

“When desperately needed development funds are stolen by corrupt individuals and institutions, poor and vulnerable people are robbed of the education, health care and other essential services.”- UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon

Four days before the world observes the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day, new rankings have placed Guyana as the most corrupt country in English-speaking Caribbean countries.
According to rankings released yesterday by watchdog corruption body, Transparency International (TI), the 2012 Annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has placed Guyana at a lowly 133 out of total of 174 countries. Guyana managed a miserly 28 points out of 100.
And in the presentation of the Transparency International findings, head of the local chapter, Attorney at Law, Gino Persaud, and Secretary Frederick Collins, both lauded Kaieteur News which has been highlighting corruption in Guyana.
The newspaper has been investigating the various contracts issued under questionable circumstances and examining the numerous projects, many of which were believed to be overpriced.

TIGI officials: From left is Vice-President, Dr. Anand Goolsarran; President, Gino Persaud and Director, Frederick Collins.

The results were released by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI), the local contact of TI.
TI would have conducted its surveys gauging perceptions to corruption by examining relations in the public sector, the local police, Customs, procurement and doing business.
The index has become a signature tool widely used around the globe to measure the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries and looked at keenly by investors and multilateral lending agencies.
Denmark, Finland and New Zealand tie for first place with scores of 90, helped by strong access to information systems and rules governing the behaviour of those in public positions.
Guyana tied Comoros, Honduras, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
“This ranking places us at the bottom of the English Speaking Caribbean with only Haiti below us at 165. It is noteworthy that in the Caribbean, Barbados ranks at 15 with a score of 76; both St. Lucia and Bahamas rank at 22 with a score of 71 and St. Vincent and the Grenadines rank at 36 with a score of 62,” TIG’s President, Gino Persaud said during a press conference at the offices of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Waterloo Street.
Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia once again cling to the bottom rung of the index. In these countries, the lack of accountable leadership and effective public institutions underscore the need to take a much stronger stance against corruption.
At the press conference also were former Auditor General, Dr. Anand Goolsarran, who is TIGI’s Vice President; and Director, Frederick Collins.
Persaud, a lawyer, said that the advocacy body will be writing government on the findings of the index.

Integrity Commission…
TIGI listed a number of measures that Government will have to implement to raise Guyana’s rankings. These include the appointment of competent and independent members of the Integrity Commission to scrutinize the financial disclosures of politicians and bureaucrats and with adequate staff and resources to ensure the Commission can adequately fulfill its mandate.
Persaud noted that Prime Minister Sam Hinds in June had promised to have new members of the Integrity Commission sworn within a week.
Among other things TIGI is also calling for the urgent appointment of members of the Public Procurement Commission to regulate government contracts and minimize their involvement; the implementation of modern anti-corruption legislation; implementation of whistle-blowing legislation; the enforcement of existing anti-corruption laws by investigating and prosecuting the corrupt and the strengthening of existing anti-corruption institutions such as the Guyana Police Force and the Financial Intelligence established under the money laundering legislation.
“These institutions are weak and unable to counter serious white collar crime and corrupt activities,” Persaud said in his read statement.
Guyana should also appoint an Ombudsman to address grievances from members of the public; ensure that all public monies are placed to the credit of the Consolidated Fund, and no public expenditure must be incurred without Parliamentary approval.
TIGI also called for all appointments to public offices to be advertised and made with due regard to technical competence, and not loyalty; and for the Access to Information Act passed in Parliament to be strengthened and made operational.
TIGI also called for the strengthening of civil society and for organisations such as the Guyana Bar Association, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Private Sector Commission, Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and the Guyana Press Association to become more involved in combating corruption by speaking out against corruption and being proactive within its own membership on tackling corruption and by partnering with us for collective efforts.
“We call on the press corps to be more vigilant in acting as a professional, impartial and responsible watchdog body against corruption.”

Corruption exists
According to Goolsarran, most countries are doing everything possible to “get to the top of the table” of rankings. He urged, as a start, that government accept the index in good faith and do something about it.
The officials drew reference to a judge in Brazil who targeted a number of politicians close to former President Lula and who was the laughing stock of many. The politicians were brought to trial.
Asked to comment on the impact of the findings, Dr Goolsarran said that serious investors use the findings by Transparency International to determine whether they would invest in a country. Many have opted to cancel plans for investment in Guyana.
TIGI is seeking funding now to educate Guyanese and will seek to meet with government and Members of the Parliament to discuss the issue which ultimately affects the way Guyana is perceived.
The TIGI officials refused to be drawn into answering questions whether President Donald Ramotar had done enough to tackle corruption in Guyana.
According to Collins, newspaper reporters and even the Auditor General’s annual report have been indicators of the situation of corruption in Guyana.
TIGI also disclosed that it has been asked by the Minister of Natural Resources to work with his Ministry on mining, an area which has been besotted with issues of corruption and lawlessness in recent years.
According to TIGI, the index demonstrates that corruption continues to ravage societies around the globe. Two-thirds of the 176 countries ranked in the 2012 index score below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean), showing that public institutions need to be more transparent, and powerful officials held more accountable.
According to Huguette Labelle, the Chair of Transparency International, “Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all public decision-making. Priorities include better rules on lobbying and political financing, making public spending and contracting more transparent and making public bodies more accountable to people. After a year of focus on corruption, we expect governments to take a tougher stance against the abuse of power.”
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon has said that corruption afflicts all countries, undermining social progress and breeding inequality and injustice.
“When desperately needed development funds are stolen by corrupt individuals and institutions, poor and vulnerable people are robbed of the education, health care and other essential services. All of us have a responsibility to take action against the cancer of corruption.”
The private sector, too, stands to gain enormously from effective action, he said. “Corruption distorts markets, increases costs for companies and ultimately punishes consumers.”
According to the BBC, corruption was the world’s most talked about issue in 2010 and 2011.

More AFC  Lies:

Say no to Lies:

Muslims draw the Line

on Bharat & Ramotar....

Hang all dem antimen...

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

Guyanese Muslims

to resist decriminalizing

Homosexual laws – CIOG

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

The Muslim Community will continue to resist any decriminalization of homosexual laws and practices locally. This is according to President of the Central Islamic Organization (CIOG) Fazal Feroze, which represents a large section of the Guyanese Muslim population.

According to the CIOG President, while he has not been presented with any formal proposal from the Guyana Government as it relates to amending the Laws, he is aware of a promised consultation on the matter. He said that he is cognizant of the fact that Guyana has signed on to several international conventions that would speak on the matter of homosexuality and the death penalty among others.

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

According to Feroze, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the CIOG had been informed sometime back of a promised consultation on the matters at hand. He was quick to point out that while the Muslim Community will speak out against any such proposal he cannot make any more definitive statements yet.

Feroze told this publication yesterday that at present the CIOG is not aware of the “full ramifications of what is being proposed.” According to the CIOG head, while the Muslim Community would not support such homosexual postures, it will not discriminate.

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

He says that the Islamic teachings would not allow the community to discriminate. In seeking to expand on his position despite not being in possession of the full implications of what is being proposed, he said that any such changes to the legislation would have to be accompanied by a public education campaign.

He said that the Muslim community would be opposed to persons going to schools teaching children that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

Feroze reminded also of the previous instance in 2003 when the Government had made similar intimations. According to Feroze, should the administration pass a law where a legal union between two men or women is condoned then a Muslim Marriage Officer could be found in breach of the law for refusing to partake in such practice. “We still don’t know the full ramifications,” said Feroze, who added also that on the issue of the death penalty, Islamic law does provide for interpretations.

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

He said that he is fully cognizant of the fact that Guyana is not an Islamic State and reminded that the Muslim community will wait and see what proposals are being made by the Guyana Government. There has been intimation on the part of the administration, to commence some sort of consultation process with a view to soliciting the views of Guyanese on the matters. The United Nations has over the years been pressuring the country to repeal its homosexuality laws as well as the death penalty provisions. Human Services and Social Security Minister, Jenifer Webster says that the matter will be dealt with at the level of a Special Parliamentary Select Committee.

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

Rev say....Who Vex....Vex

Guyana most corrupt country in

English-speaking Caribbean

Another racket looms

Dear Editor,

Is there anything that the PPP can do without committing racketeering?  Skeldon Factory—fraud; Kingston Hotel — fraud, Fip vis a vis the Amaila Road – fraud; Specialty Hospital – fraud; procurement of medical supplies  — fraud and now the alleged investment by Minister Webster’s daughter into a Ghost recycling Company called Natural Globe, Inc.
We have been reliably informed that its CEO, Mohamed Osman has embellished his qualifications and work experience in order to get the contract. This is another major failure at due diligence by Roger Luncheon and his corrupt PPP cabal.
Like Fip Motilall who did not have any experience in road building but was given a US$15 million to build the Amalia Falls road, the same is true for Mohamed Osman who has no experience in the technical aspects of recycling. We have also been reliably informed that Mohamed Osman and some of his friends in Toronto were a major contributor to the PPP in the 2011 elections.
So what Roger Luncheon and his crooked friends at the Robb Street big house have done is to pay back their friend with a huge contract at the expense of the poor and the working class. This is a blatant form of corruption and we call on all the members of the Private Sector Commission, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, and the ambassadors of the American, Canadian and European embassies to publicly condemn the PPP for this nefarious act.
They have been notorious for pressuring the opposition to vote for the Anti-money Laundering Bill but not for the Procurement Commission, now we want to hear from them on behalf of the people, especially the taxpayers who have to foot the bill.
Can the PPP regime give the people a break and stop plundering the pockets of the taxpayers of Guyana for personal enrichment. Shame on the regime!
Now we are reading about this Ghost waste recycling plant that is being procured in the name of a company that the procurer does not even own and the real owner has labeled him a “liar” that no such company exists and this deal between the Government of Guyana and this phantom company owner is bad for the people of Guyana.
Plus there is the pricing. The experts say the price for a plant to service Guyana will cost the taxpayers US$5 million, while the PPP has signed a contract for US$30 million; another fraud. Who is getting the US$25 million.
To the sugar workers of Enmore, Rose Hall, Blairmont, Albion and all the other estates, are you prepared to work for the rest of your lives to pay taxes so that the PPP bigwigs can swindle this nation US$25 million?  Well Mr. Austin from Rose Hall estate had the right answer  – he asked what are we the workers going to do and his answer to his brothers on the picket line was he see “all of we (workers) will be hungry, and we will wuk’ hard until we dead out.”
It is time for a revolt against the PPP because the party members are just too greedy and crooked and do not care for the economic welfare of the poor and the working class.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S.Singh

Heist of the Telecoms, Media sector…  Proposed legislation will place Guyana’s future in the hands of a few…something must be done to stop this – APNU

“Something has to be done about this wholesale heist of the telecommunications sector by a few persons to control this major growth sector. This lawlessness must never happen again”.

Joseph Harmon

This is the view expressed by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian, Joseph Harmon, who supports the views held by leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan, who had denounced the fact that three of the four companies named in a proposed law to be handed Telecommunications Licences are closely aligned to the former President, Bharrat Jagdeo. Harmon told this publication yesterday, that given the nature of, and projected growth of the communications sector in Guyana, those who have been identified for licences will literally hold the fate of the country in their hands. He said that by arbitrarily putting all this power in the hands of a few, it will allow them to have control over the future of the country. Harmon said that no matter which Government is in power, it will be these few non-elected persons who will decide and “control the future of Guyana for the rest of our lives.” This, he said, cannot be allowed to happen, and the Opposition parties will have to ensure that the playing field is once again leveled so that all can have fair access to be able to compete in the sector. Kaieteur News in recent weeks has been publishing a detailed series, illustrating how a few persons would have essentially been positioned to take over the communications industry in Guyana. Three companies, Quark Communications Inc., Global Technology’s i-Net Communications and E-Networks have been identified to receive Telecommunications Licences under the proposed changes to the Telecommunications Law. Armed with such a licence, the companies would

be able to compete directly with Digicel and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), once the laws are passed in the National Assembly and assented to by President Donald Ramotar. More glaring is that the three companies would have been rapidly expanding their distribution network knowing that the proposed changes in the law mandate that they would be given a licence, while others interested in the market would have been restricted. Registration documents filed with Government found that all three companies were filled with shareholders who have known ties with Jagdeo, with at least one person being directly related. Harmon told this publication that APNU would be looking to work along with the AFC on the way forward. He said, too, that it is not only the Telecommunications Law that needs to be addressed, and he will also bring amendments for the Broadcast Act.

Winston Brassington

According to Harmon, too much power is placed in the hands of the Minister of Information, a portfolio that former President Jagdeo had arrogated unto himself. The status quo remains, with the sitting president holding the portfolio of Minister of Information. It was this overarching power in the hands of the Minister that allowed Jagdeo to name the three companies to receive licences, according to Harmon. He said that the power has to be devolved from the Minister and placed into bodies such as the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, which then has to be accountable to the Parliament. While the select committee is yet to be named to address the amendments to the Telecommunications Bill, Harmon has made it clear that changes have to be made to ensure that the ‘dictatorial and arbitrary’ practices do not continue. Ramjattan on Monday told this publication that his party, which controls seven of the 65 seats in the National Assembly, had found it strange that Government had decided upfront who the four companies that will be receiving licences would be. “A telecoms licence is not a joke that is handed willy-nilly to anyone…We are supposed to have an open, transparent system allowing everyone to have a chance to compete.” Ramjattan said that “to decide beforehand who you want to operate in the market is indeed strange and worrying…We can draw some conclusions from this…We will move to make some changes to change this criminal nonsense.” Ramjattan’s worry is not unfounded.

Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop

Jagdeo’s best friend, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, is a director in Global Technology.  Quark Communications Inc. has its operations running out of Ramroop’s property at Versailles, West Bank Demerara. Winston Brassington, a controversial figure who spearheaded a number of large scale projects for Government including the Marriott Hotel and the troubled Amaila Falls hydro facility, is a central figure in Quark. Quark’s main founder is Brian Yong. He is known to be a close friend of Jagdeo and was even on his party’s elections campaign as a candidate in 2011. Vishok Persaud, a main principal in E-Networks, is also a close friend of the former President and the son of a former party stalwart, the late Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud. Already, both E-Networks and Quark have been awarded licences for operating cable TV. The controversial approvals were made days before Jagdeo ended his Presidential term of office in 2011 when he also green-lighted the operations of several radio stations, most of them going to persons and companies with close ties to the ruling party. Several established media houses who had applied for licences, including Kaieteur News, Stabroek News and CNS 6, were overlooked in the 2011 decision by the former president. “To place this much power under unclear circumstances in a few persons’ hands is highly dangerous, and not only to national security.”

These three companies were mandated to receive Telecommunications Licences.

Anyone know if they stoned the Iman to death who sodomized those little boys? I haven't heard anything more about the story.

He was Charged by the Police,

Hauled before the Court....

but is free on bail,

with no a word from

CIOG, DPP, Police, Court, AG or Govt  

So technically the Imam is Free

So far...He was not found Guilty by the Courts.

And if you are Accusing CIOG for Coverup.

You should ask your beloved Leader right here

how an Imam/Teacher at the CIOG School

who was caught and accused of

Raping a little Black Girl at school

and he was Quickly & Quietly

 smuggled out the country by his Brothers

while the police was investigating

and about to lay Rape Charges.

What you are saying is exposing

 the level of Corruption in Guyana

by this Govt under Jagdeo & Ramotar

where serious crimes are committed

and CIOG, DPP, Police, Courts, AG & Govt

come together and protect criminals.

Jagdeo & Ramotar fellas

Councie, Kwame, Rev and Ewe-gee

need to come clean

They keep switching positions

Like Councie & Kwame doing here

Poor observer aint seeing

wha really going on...

He can easily be caught eating too...

not knowing what ee eating....

Rev posing as a Decent Man

Who Vex ....Vex

Rev admit Jagdeo & Ramotar thiefing

 like dem PNC Bhai under Burnham & Hoyte

Rev say......Who Vex ....Vex

Ewe-gee say Jagdeo & Ramotar don't thief

Ewe gee claiming.....Rev.... mek mistake.

Rev say all them minister is thiefman

and they should be jailed

Who Vex ....Vex

Ewe-gee saying

"De current minsta's ...dem is not thiefman"

only thiefman minister eee know bout

"is De Past minista's under PNC"

and down de road....

"De Future AFC minista's"

Ewe gee claiming.....Rev.... mek mistake.

Rev painting PNC as Bad

and Ramotar & Jagdeo Stink

but nat as bad as PNC

Rev say......Who Vex ....Vex

Ewe gee claiming.....Rev.... mek mistake.

Ewe-gee on the Other Hand

Painting a different Picture of Guyana Govt

According to ewe-gee....

Burnhan & PNC is Rotten

Jagan ....fair to average

Jagdeo & Ramotar....is de Best

and AFC is de worst...

All Dem Donkey know AFC not in Govt

and AFC cannot thief State money...

But as mitwa and redux would say

 this one Jackass in de World think different

and...Here....Comes.....Ewe-gee

Rev say......Who Vex ....Vex

Ewe-gee is eee Brother...Dem is de same

These Donkey den decide to

label all Indians who support

PNC or AFC

"Dutty Indians"

Now Rev....the same fella

who was posing as a decent....Man

Start sucking everything

flowing from the ass

Ewegee and "Rev De Side Kick"

Now Braying..... Moses, Ramjattan, Ralph,

Ramphal, Insanally, Sahabadeen,

Luchoo, Ramsahoy, Kenard,

Beharry, Tulsie, Mazharally,

Roopnarine, Kissoon, Goolsarran, Ram

 Boyo, O'lal, Fazal ........

and the thousands who follow them

are all "Dutty Indians"

Ewe-gee & Rev ........singing "Dutty Indians"

Two disgraceful $hit-face.

Now when we point out if you can call Indians

who refuse to Support Jagdeo & Ramotar

"Dutty Indians"

others.... on GNI must be free to call "De Black Thugs"

who now working for and Supporting Jagdeo & Ramotar

"PPP Black House of Isreal Hindus"

Both Donkey start cry and run complaining.....

The Laws of Guyana states

Buggering is a Crime

and when caught you must face Death....

When we on GNI say

Councie, Kwame, Bharat & Manny

Break the Laws of Guyana....

REV say ....them is Nasty Dutty Lowlife

and as the law say...they should be Hanged

Ewe-gee start cry fuh Kwame'

and eee shame fuh mention Bharat Name....

But eee crying non stop....

Ewe gee claiming.....Rev.... mek mistake.

When we explain on GNI

Muslims  and Islam against

Buggery, Vulgarity, Indecency, Lawlessness & Corruption..

Dem try fuh tell us that....

All dem PPP Hindus following Jagdeo & Ramotar

will tolerate and accept 

Buggery, Vulgarity, Indecency, Lawlessness & Corruption..

When we ask them about

the Black House of Israel Thugs

now with Ramotar & Jagdeo in

Office of the President & Freedom House...

Rev & Ewe-gee say

De PPP Hindu's like and accept them....

Dem two tell us on GNI....

No Problem....

All dem PPP Hindus following Jagdeo & Ramotar

 tolerate, accept, practice & Love 

Buggery, Vulgarity, Indecency, Lawlessness & Corruption..

So our Question

to Rev and Eve-gee here and now on GNI

is if what they say is true

about The PPP Hindus love and Relationship

with The Black House of Isreal Thugs....

Why are you upset......when we say.....

"All Black House of Israel Thugs......

are now PPP Hindus"

Ewe gee claiming.....Rev.... mek mistake.

Rev say......Who Vex ....Vex

As Mitwa & Rudux would say

Dem two Jack-ass

need fuh stop being $upper $uckers

Stop eating from the other BT

come with a clean face

and tell abee about dem

"Dutty Black PPP House of Isreal Hindus"

after we understand that....

we can discuss anything........

Come on ....Don't be shame

OPPOSITION LEADERS MADE GOOD ON THEIR PROMISE TO THE CORRUPT PPP/C

No anti-money laundering

Bill…Guyana

blacklisted

…warns its members against financial deals with this country

In November 2011, international regulators told the Bharrat Jagdeo administration that the country needed to take steps to ensure that the nation had strong financial regulations.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall

Two years later, the country is still to comply with the necessary measures and as such the Caribbean Financial Action Taskforce (CFATF) has essentially blacklisted Guyana. It has also notified its member countries to put counter measures in place when dealing with Guyana’s finances given the risks involved.
The issue centred on the passage of amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act. CFATF then said that these measures should be in place by May 2013.
Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon explained, last month, that the amendments were fashioned by CFATF and that Guyana had no option. However, for the two years that CFATF   ordered Guyana to get the necessary legislation in place, the administration did nothing.
The CFATF decision taken yesterday will affect payment for oil, family remittances, payment for goods and a host of other transactions that could virtually cripple trade.
The issue has been a hugely troubling one for the administration as the country could see severe backlash from the sanctions that could be imposed by member countries of the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF), including the United States of America.
Guyana has been found to be non-compliant as it relates to addressing its deficiencies in dealing with the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism legislation.
The contentious issue reared its head in April when Government brought the proposed amendments to the law into public focus for the first time. It wanted an immediate vote, but the political Opposition sent it to a Special Parliamentary Select Committee for a review. They claimed that the proposed legislation was deficient.
Six months later, Government, through its chief whip, Gail Teixeira, wrapped up the work of the Committee and sent it back to the House without the Opposition involvement.

President Donald Ramotar

The Opposition promptly voted against the law reforms when the amendments came up for the vote on the main floor of the National Assembly.
When CFATF completed its routine review session in the Bahamas yesterday, it called on its members to consider implementing counter measures to protect their financial systems from the ongoing money laundering and terrorist financing risks coming from this country.
Guyana will again be reviewed in May next year to see if the deficiencies have been corrected, according to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, who would have led a team this week to the Bahamas plenary.
With the news of the country being blacklisted, Government and the Opposition continued pointing fingers at each other over the delays and fallout.
CFATF, in a statement on Guyana to its members, explained that in November 2011, it notified its members that certain deficiencies in their Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) will have to be corrected. An action plan with target dates was developed by both Guyana and CFATF to address the deficiencies.
The body, in rendering its decision yesterday, said that as a result of Guyana not meeting the agreed timelines in its action plan, it has recommend counter measures be put in place when transacting business with Guyana
According to CFATF, “Guyana has made efforts to address its deficiencies, however, it has not taken sufficient steps towards improving its AML/CFT compliance regime by failing to approve and implement required legislative reforms.”
Needed measures

Opposition Leader, David Granger

Guyana is required to pass the relevant legislation and implement all the outstanding issues within its action plan, including fully criminalising money laundering and terrorist-financing offences, addressing all the requirements on beneficial ownership, strengthening the requirements for suspicious transaction reporting, international co-operation, the freezing and confiscation of terrorist assets, and fully implementing the UN conventions.
Failure will see the regional body referring the Guyana case to its head, FATF, and its International Corporation Review Group (ICRG).
FATF will have its next plenary meeting in February 2014, and at that meeting, on its own accord and independent of CFATF, can select Guyana for its own review.
Both the Government and the Opposition pointed fingers yesterday at each other for the mess.
On his Facebook page, President Donald Ramotar, fresh from his Sri Lanka trip, blamed the Opposition for the delays.
“It is with great displeasure that I announce that our country has been deemed non-compliant by the CFATF…This comes after the opposition failed to cooperate with government in passing the anti-money laundering legislation. This will have adverse effects on the private sector and the Guyanese people.”
He said that transactions through banks and agencies like Western Union will take more time and inevitably cost more. “The Government will remain steadfast in its approach in resolving this problem.”
Opposition Leader David Granger told reporters yesterday as he made his way to the Parliamentary session that Government, knew that law changes would have had to been made over a decade ago following the United States actions in response to financing of terrorism following the 9/11 attacks.
Granger said that after starving the Financial Intelligence Unit, a body empowered to investigate money laundering of resources and personnel for years, it was only recently that changes were made.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds

Granger said that Government “blundered” by refusing the Opposition to complete its work on in the special select committee
“All is not lost…Our intention now is to go back the National Assembly,” said Granger.
He added that the Alliance For Change (AFC), the other Opposition party in the National Assembly, is of the same view…that the Special Select Committee has to complete its work.
“We take no blame whatsoever. (This is) entirely the fault of Government.”
Teixeira said that the issue is a serious one for Guyana. The Opposition parties should “hang their heads in shame” for voting against the reforms, despite knowing of the deadlines, she added.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds also at the beginning of the parliamentary sitting updated the House on the CFATF decision. He said that Guyana will be severely affected, with the banking and insurance sectors under scrutiny, and will face serious consequences for financial transactions.
It will also impact Government’s provision of goods and services, according to Hinds.
The Prime Minister argued that the defeated Bill was a major part of the measures that had to be implemented. That defeat affected the country’s review this week in the Bahamas.
There may be “worse to come”, if Guyana is not able to put its house in order by February. Other countries have taken years to comply, according to Hinds.
Citibank in the US has already terminated its relationship with its local counterparts, while Trinidad & Tobago in recent weeks started putting measures in place for greater scrutiny of funds emanating from Guyana for the purpose of doing business there

So here we see  the PPP/C's incompetency as explains by Roger Luncheon:

"Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon explained, last month, that the amendments were fashioned by CFATF and that Guyana had no option. However, for the two years that CFATF   ordered Guyana to get the necessary legislation in place, the administration did nothing."

I tell aya this Roger is a Good Black PPP Hindu.

Rev is a Numbers man....

Rev better than Vishnu Bisram...

Rev did de Numbers fuh Jagdeo & Ramotar...

"Fuh every Good Black PPP Hindu"

we got "10,000 Dutty AFC/PNC Indians"

Rev say...Who Vex....Vex

Any aya Question De Rev Numbers?

"

OPPOSITION LEADERS MADE GOOD ON THEIR PROMISE TO THE CORRUPT PPP/C

No anti-money laundering

Bill…Guyana

blacklisted"

Who vex....vex.

Donor nations must probe deeper for corruption- Caribbean professor

• Saturday, 23 November 2013 21:35

Executive Director of National Integrity Action of Jamaica (NIAJ) Professor Trevor Munroe. At left is Transparency International's Coordinator for the Americas, Maximilian Heywood.

Professor of Governance and Politics at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trevor Munroe wants donor countries and agencies to dig deeper to ensure that their taxpayers’ cash is not ending up in the pockets of corrupt politicians.
Munroe, who is also Executive Director of National Integrity Action of Jamaica (NIAJ), also called on Transparency International (TI) to adjust its rules to become a watchdog against corruption in the private sector.

Delivering the feature address at the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc’s (TIGI) 2nd annual fund raising dinner on Friday night, he defined political corruption as “the misuse or the use of entrusted political power and authority for illicit gain more often than not at the expense of the public’s interest.”

 

 

Munroe argued that donor nations must be more enquiring about how their funds are used even at the risk of being accused of meddling in domestic affairs.

 

“Our International Development Partners need to understand that what aid they give to us is coming from their taxpayers under pressure and they have an obligation to ensure that that aid reaches our taxpayers, our people and is not interrupted along the road.

“I need to make it absolutely clear that even at the risk of accusations of interference that their money, their aid, their grant is intended for the people and not for the pockets of the corrupt.

 

Rev say Jagdeo & Ramotar Thiefing....

But that is Ok because they are Indians....

Who Vex...Vex

An NIAJ-commissioned survey had showed that 43 percent of Jamaicans did not believe that greater involvement by donor nations and agencies in determining whether monies were being misappropriated amounted to interference in internal affairs.

 

Those who opposed were 35 percent.

“The point I am making is that in this period of globalisation the corrupt in high places would try and play the nationalist card as they tried in Jamaica,” he said.

 

Reunion of Crime & Corruption Fighters

Moses Nagamootoo, Rupert Roopnarine & Trevor Munroe

in Guyana 22/11/13 at anti-corruption forum

Professor Munroe noted that the United Nations estimated that corruption prevented 30 percent of all development assistance from reaching its final destination.

That, he said, amounted to US$300,000 of every US$1 million which is siphoned off into the pockets of public officials and private persons.

Himself a former politician, the Professor recommended that Transparency International amend its definition to permit as much focus on private sector corruption as is being done on the public sector.

 

He said it was not fair and just for transnational companies to pay fines while remaining rich and wealthy.

“I say to Transparency International: Yes, we need to sustain the focus on public officials, yes we need to look at the abuse of entrusted political authority for illicit gains but we now need to take much more seriously the abuse of market power for personal and private gain by transnational corporations in the way that they have been doing recently,” he said.

He noted that the World Bank in 2004 estimated that US$1 trillion was paid in bribes from private sector to public sector functionaries.

 

He recalled that JP Morgan concluded a US$13 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice including US$2 billion in fines for improper conduct during the global financial crisis.

 

The British bridge building firm Mabey and Johnson paid a more than 6 million pound sterling fine for pleading guilty for bribing public officials in Ghana, Iraq and Jamaica.

Touching on the wider Caribbean, Professor Munroe noted that several surveys show that people across the region perceive corruption and political corruption as one of the main things wrong in the region resulting in least confidence in political parties.

Building integrity and combating corruption, he said, could be gradually achieved by conducting rapid corruption risk assessments in each CARICOM country.

 

In the case of his native Jamaica, he said an assessment in 2008 had showed that that country had been in “clear and present danger of State capture by criminal or commercial interests.”

 

An alternative option for Guyana, he suggested, could be a national integrity system study to ground anti-corruption activities in a systemic understanding of which are the strong and weak institutions to arrive at priority actions to be targeted.

 

Professor Munroe further recommended that laws be passed to register political parties and campaign financing to provide for disclosure of big donors.

The campaign financing law, he added, should provide for the banning of illegal organisations that give money to political parties and election campaigns.

“The longer we take to plug this and similar loopholes is the more of our people should lose confidence in the rule of law, in the justice system and ultimately in democratic governance,” he said.

He strongly suggested that Guyana press for political party registration and campaign financing in keeping with recommendations made by the Organisation of American States Mission that observed the November 2011 elections.

That mission had, among other things, observed that the system allows for the use of State resources for campaigning.

The UWI academic passionately demanded that Caribbean people easily access campaign financing information about their own countries in the same way they could for the United States and the United Kingdom.

“None of us can know who is giving how much to political parties here in our own Caribbean territories and it is they who exercise power over us- not Obama’s Democratic Party or Romney’s Republican Party.

 

We need to know who is giving how much to who and, therefore, who have the capacity to exert undue influence on whom,” he said to loud applause at the dinner that was held at the Guyana Pegasus.

 

While Munroe noted that the Caribbean was not alone in grappling with corruption, he lamented that in the region there was little or no successful investigation, prosecution and conviction of persons in high places for illicit enrichment.

“In too many CARICOM states, there is regular prima facie evidence pointing to irregular procurement procedures, pointing to bribery payments as well as kick-backs and improper expenditure of public funds,” he added.

 

Professor Munroe further queried why little or no action is being taken to address breaches chronicled in the various Auditor General’s Reports.

 

Among his recommendations is the need for radical institutional reform to build capacity to strengthen anti-corruption laws and institutions and integrity building activity.

“The consequences of continued failure in these regards are grave and serious,” he said, adding that poverty would worsen.

The World Bank says that countries that stamp out corruption can yield a four-fold increase in per capita income and an increase in annual growth rate by two to four percent.

He noted that Global Corruption Barometer 2013 surveyed over 114,000 persons in 107 countries where in most of them the people themselves in the country perceived the political party as the institution most affected by corruption.

 

 Prof . Trevor Munroe of Jamaica

with AFC leaders Nigel Hughes & Khemraj Ramjattan

at last-night's anti-corruption forum at Pegasus, Guyana.

Munroe also referred to the findings a United Nations Development Programme’s 2010 Citizens Security Survey that shows that almost 50 percent of the people in seven countries believe that the justice system is corrupt.

In Jamaica, 70 percent believed so to a low of 34 percent in Barbados shared that view.

 

Related, he said, 52 percent of the people in those countries believe that politically connected criminals go free and 47 percent thought that powerful criminals with money and contacts go free.

Over the last five years, only three CARICOM member nations-Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines- were consistently scoring high on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index as being relatively clean.

The NIAJ Executive Director lauded activities such as TIGI’s fund raising dinners and public awareness messages through the media.

 

He, however, argued that nothing beats grassroots contact. “All of that is good but ultimately you have to go down on the ground, you have to meet the people where they are in their districts and their villages and town halls. Talk with them and hear from them as to what their experience has been and is and that has served us very well and perhaps others in the region can learn from that,” he said.

First Jagdeo & Ramotar tek De House of Israel Thugs to Berbice and say.... aya Berbicians did not vote for us....so we gon tek dem Black Thugs and give them wuk in Freedom House & Office of the President.

Further we gon elect Kwame McCoy a member of the PPP Central Committee right here where Jagan Born...and aya cant do a thing...

 We gon mek Kwame, Bynoe, Lamumba, Hamilton and all Dem other House of Isreal Thugs..... PPP Black Hindu....aya gon got to pooja dem....

If aya want wuk.... yuh must ask dem Black PPP Hindu..... them in charge of hiring at Office of the President & Freedom House

  If aya na learn yet fuh behave... we gon move in de GDF ....to aya Village like in PNC Days

Now .....Black GDF Solders with Guns move into Rose Hall all over de Town.....Aya Berbicians ask fuh this.... 

Soldiers in Rosehall Town on training & Military operations

3 Armed GDF at ever Corner

Demerara Waves

Rev say.....Who Vex....Vex

AFC Berbice leadership recently.

Berbice AFC fighters re-commit to struggle against corruppption.

Moses, David and Dominic grounding with AFC's Essequibo leaders

 

Venezula can tek over de whole Essequibo....But De Army & House of Israel Black Hindus will hold Berbice Hostage 

Berbice Under Seige ...

Dem Black PPP Hindus

will Stop the AFC

The PPP is about to complete yet

another billion dollar raid on State

resources.

 
Dear Editor,
One may ask, what is a government elected to do?  Our primary understanding would be to govern in the national interest for the betterment of all the people; not in the interest of a few. So why is the PPP only fostering the business interest of a small group of people closely aligned to that party? This issue has been studied with much diligence over the years and the Kaieteur News expose captioned “The Heist of Guyana – the Communication Scheme” is just another revelation of how the PPP  hierarchy is about to complete another billion dollar raid on the Treasury to enrich themselves, relatives and friends. They have done this many times before but this is going to be the largest raid ever on the people’s money. It is wrong and we must vehemently condemn it.
The general thrust of owner Glen Lall and editor Adam Harris’ Kaietuer News article “The Heist of Guyana” points us in the right direction – namely, the Jagdeo cabal with the full collaboration of the Ramotar bunch have made plans to retroactively transfer one of Guyana’s greatest and most valuable assets— the wireless telephony spectrum—from the people of Guyana to themselves and friends for a pittance. This is worse than the most outrageous corrupt practice or any highway robberies.
The greatest political act in the history of Guyana was when the PPP was relegated to a minority Government status.  The main causation of that political revolution was the PPP’s gross acts of massive corruption and mal-administration of the affairs of the State, including the whole scale plundering of the people’s resources. Yet, the PPP will not stop such depraved behavior; in fact, they have caught the disease called “kleptocrotitist” meaning the inability to prevent theft from the Treasury. This is a disease that is easily spread among the group and can only be cured by therapeutic help from well qualified and experienced Psychiatrists, most of whom can be found in the developed countries.
The electro-magnetic spectrum is worth billions of dollars (the last estimate was G$24 billion) but yet we find that the PPP is determined to transfer these expensive spectrums for little or nothing to their friends and family through their back door corrupt practices which were perfected by the Jagdeoites.

This spectrum supports businesses in the quad-play sector which constitutes cable businesses, businesses using the broadcast television frequency, radio frequency and the jewel in the crown — the wireless (cellular) telephone frequency. No government in its right mind, except for the PPP would give away such treasured state resources to their friends and relatives for nickels and dimes. As APNU—MP Joseph Harmon rightfully said, “them eyes pass we.”

In 2011, the Jagdeo regime literally gave away the radio and television frequency for absolutely nothing to their friends and family creating the conditions for them to earn billions of dollars at the taxpayer’s expense.  In April 2013, Prime Minister Sam Hinds confirmed that the PPP will not collect fees from two companies in the cable business, both owned and controlled by persons close to former president Jagdeo. Again, more milk and honey for a pittance for the best friends of the PPP.  The fact remains, Jamaica was able to leverage some US$40 million for just one cable license. Score sheet so far -Guyana ZERO; Jamaica US$40 million.

The PPP did not stop there. They wanted total domination of the airwaves in Guyana. While we acknowledged that the drafted telecommunication legislation meets the basic international standards, we are quite disturbed that the PPP cabal, like a thief in the night, inserted the licensing of three PPP aligned telecommunication companies—Quark Communication, E-Networks and Global Technologies—all owned by friends of the former president, again for a pittance. This goes to show how crooked this regime is as they continue to bleed the nation of all its vital resources. This is not what the people had expected when the PPP promised to level the playing field and bring order to the telecommunications industry.
The risks that GT&T and Digicel took, and the investments they have made over the years are enormous and should be respected by the PPP cabal; and this should easily justify their place at the table. However, these three PPP fly by night operators have done very little in terms of investing in technology for the wireless communications network over the years and should not be given licenses for a pittance? What risk did they take?  What investment have they made for the direct benefit of the Guyanese people?
Have they ever built any children hospital like Digicel or paid the billions of dollars in taxes like Digicel and GT&T did over the years? How dare these members of the “Committee for the Re-election of Jagdeo” popularly referred to as the CREEPS, reap the rewards by not taking the appropriate risk and truly investing in the Guyanese people?  Why is the PPP giving away the state’s valuable airwaves frequencies to their rich friends? The only answer is the PPP has taken corruption to its highest level; therefore, we will be forwarding this letter to all the members of CARICOM and to all regional and international communication bodies.
We demand that the PPP cabal rescind their preferential treatment to the three communication companies owned by their friends this telecommunication bill be sent to the select committee for further scrutiny. We also demand that the playing field should be leveled and regularized between GT&T and Digicel first, before any other players are invited to take part in the process. The market place can be opened to all other players by way of a spectrum auction in a regulated manner once it is regularized and they are prepared to pay the fair market value for the available band width.  If the friends of the former President need space on the spectrum, let them compete in a transparent manner like everyone else in the world; they should not be given preferential treatment by the PPP. We strongly opposed this corrupt PPP minority regime for giving their friends and relatives who are the owners of Quark Communication, E-Networks and Global Technologies and to have free access to the state most prized resources. We also called on all Guyanese to revolt against this corrupt regime for such unethical practice.
We say thanks and Glen Lall and Adam Harris of Kaieteur and we salute them for exposing the racketeering and plundering of the state resources by the PPP. They have done their part diligently, so now is the time for the people of Guyana to follow suit. We can no longer stand idle and allow this crooked and immoral regime to commit such blatant crime against the state. We are calling on the majority opposition to use the powers granted to them by the Constitution to investigate this criminal act and surcharge the alleged perpetrators for their twisted ways and warped mentality. This is the time for the opposition to unite and vigorously defend the interest of the people.
Furthermore, the majority Parliamentary opposition must take their responsibility more seriously and design laws in such a way to meet the objective of fostering competition while at the same time securing the best value for money for the people of Guyana. Once this cat is out the bag, there is no opportunity for any future government to roll back this conspiratorial PPP plan and thus if this is not done using best practices, the nation will have opportunity losses to the tune of billions of dollars that will never ever be recovered. Is that a price we as Guyanese are prepared to pay to please the economic oligarchic who controls the PPP? We say no and hope you do as well.

Chandra Deollal, Esq. Mark Dacosta, Dr.Terrence Simon,
 Joycelyn Wilson, Guyatree Balgobin Esq, Aubrey Reteymer,
Noel Moses, Sasenarine Singh, Asha Balbachan, Derrick Arjune, Esq.
Donna Mattho, Asquith Rose, Ricky Bisnauth, Harish S. Singh.

Stabroek News was told by multiple library staff at Parliament that only the Design and Supply of the Co-Generation Plant under the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project (SSMP) made its way to the National Assembly to be deliberated on. The reason given was that this component of the SSMP was being done through a government concessional loan agreement between the finance ministry and the Import-Export Bank of China in January 2005.

• BORAPORK

Guyana is no different to the syndicate that runs North Korea. Nepotism and under the table deals are emptying the treasury and the resources of the country are being stolen and distributed among the elites.

BORAPORK

Had I overseen this project, i would also keep all the documents hidden. This is one of the greatest frauds committed on the people of Guyana and not a single person was fired for this fiasco. Instead more money is being poured into this expanding sinkhole.

BORAPORK

will be another bogus fraud that brazzy and his PPP has cooked up.

These shameless scandals will continue to ooze and the Guyanese people will continue to wince to the next election where they will be forced to vote conscience and get rid of them.

dezetante

The EU should be DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY for our TAXED Euros. Itis heart breaking to see how many young couples have lost their homes because of the Euro crisis, how many taxpayers end up at the food banks and Salvation Army; while Europians are STARVING and HOMELESS EU is PUMPING our money in the Pockets of the Prominent Presumptuous Pirating /Cabal......I wonder if there is some form of CORRUPTION as that of the American visa scandal? KYAAN TRUSS NO-BADDY NOW-ah-DAYS!!!! I cannot imagine that with the Euro crisis, the Europian Union continues to PUMP money into a BOTTOMLESS PIT without ASKING QUESTIONS or HOLDING anyone RESPONSIBLE for Europian taxpayers money

caban

Those document will have to be altered now that questions will be ask

Kaieteur_Canada caban

Or disappear altogeter like the 2000+ court files.

dougla

SN needs some big big excavators like KN to dig deep deep and they will find, evey Tom, Dick and Harryram digging now

Patriot

I know it's hard for you. All the mess have you giddy .

dougla

Since Nov 2011 they digging and only KATAHAR they finding,EH HEy,,,

you damn right since 2011 the PPP digging their own grave and Aunty Dora find a lot more than Katahar.

De amalia falls skinup find nuff nuff skullduggery.

De thiefin at GPL is being skin up daily.

De thiefin at GuySuCo is being skin up daily

De Thiefin all ovah de country getting skin up.

dezetante

Dugs yu shore yu aint gat dem PAY-pas dis?

INDRANIE SINGH

The little red PPP COMMUNIST DICTATORS are doing the exact thing that the big red COMMUNIST REPRESSIVE dictators are doing in China.The irony though is that the PPP and their paid soupie Cuban educated blaggers have the timerity to use the word DEMOCRACY when referring to the the Marxist PPP.

long_legs

they are a stupid bunch but not as stupid as we might want to believe!

all their wheelin'-and-dealin' is cloaked in secrecy and they expend a lot of energy covering their track. however, we will know sometime down the line if they did a good job or not.

All about thiefin

Thiefin is all about thiefin and mo thiefin and more thiefin.

dezetante

Is that the reason why the President got "SICK?" and could not have attended the dinner at the Pegassus? I am so sorry for that man. Jag-D-oh Put-in Done-al pon share PUCK-ah-terry

caban

Spending US 200,000,000 with out any proper documentation and boasting about being transparent, no wonder it had to be repaired and continue to be repaired at the taxpayers expense just after it was handed over, if any one buys an item for more than US $100.00 in most develop and developing countries they are offered warranty but spending US$ 200,000,000 has none.

dezetante

Over here a fifteen euro telephone, water-cooker or a rice steamer for 20 euros has a guarantee for two years from any recognized shop. I hope that those who swollow from the cup that is FULL & RUNNING OVER with CORRUPTION will SOBER UP some day before the next election

long_legs

naah, the soup drinkers turn out here to call everyone pncites if you criticize their honest and beloved government for things such as this!

i cannot think about where in the world such delusional people will come from except guyana.

long_legs

either they darn well cannot run the country or they are very much a crafty and cunning bunch skimming off of the backs of the guynese people.

either ways they bode unwell for the country!

H_ali

so the Guyanese taxpayers do not know who benefitted the most from this US$200 million scam! than you have the PPP sheeples chanting for the rat third term when in fact he is the de facto president, the duck is merely the sitting duck

wtf2011

The Lapdog members of Parliament are too weak to mount an inquiry into the Skeldon Taxpayer Funded Project!

dezetante

Dem 2 WEAK or dem KOLLECK 2?

Ghost Contracts

Ghost Recycling Company, Now we gat Ghost contracts at GuySuCo.

Big important spend like that and the people of Guyana cannot see the contract what utter bulls--t is this SN?

PAC makes headway in quest for

Procurement Commission

A matter which has been on the agenda of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is finally seeing some sort of progress, as the body has started the deliberations on the nominees for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

Carl Greenidge

The PPC has attracted much attention over the past few months as members of the Opposition, particularly the Alliance for Change (AFC), expressed that they wanted the Commission to be established before lending support to the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill.
The Auditor General’s 2012 report has also urged the Ministry of Finance to comply with the law and establish the Public Procurement Commission.
Discussions were stalled for sometime as the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, to date, has not submitted its nominees.
On Monday last, members of the PAC decided that it was time to move forward. At the meeting, they discussed the criteria and process of assessing applicants for senior posts in the Audit Department and the Public Procurement Commission.
According to the PAC’s Chairman, Carl Greenidge, the Presidential Advisor on Empowerment, Odinga Lumumba, attempted to continue the suspension of discussions on the PPC.  A call was then made by Trevor Williams of the AFC, to simply vote on the names received by the Committee thus far.
Members of the Opposition coalition, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) , also supported the call to move forward.
APNU’s Volda Lawrence, who is the former Chairperson of that committee, later suggested that the Chairman be asked to undertake discussions with the three political parties in order to resolve the issue.
While Greenidge agreed with the call for a resolution, he did not accept Lumumba’s suggestion for Government to introduce Cabinet’s no-objection clause.
Greenidge then reminded members in attendance of Article 212 of the Constitution which is clear about the structure of the Public Procurement Commission and made no provision for the “kind of Cabinet veto Lumumba sought on behalf of the PPP.”
Greenidge said, “The matter would be best dealt with at the Plenary of the House.” He also recommended that the meeting be focused on the specific tasks it had been assigned.

Odinga Lumumba

The committee then agreed to discuss the process by which the nominees would be selected and the selection criteria weighed, whether or not the People’s Progressive Party/Civic submitted its list of nominees, and leave for the moment the actual list of names.

Broadcast Authority was premature

with licence for Telecor

 
Days before it formally received its radio licence to operate five frequencies, Telecor and Cultural Broadcasting Inc. appointed four directors to ensure that more than 51 per cent of the voting powers on the board would be Guyanese residing in Guyana.
This made the company fully compliant with the requirements under the Broadcast Act.
But even before the company satisfied this criterion, its licence was already

Dharamchand Depoo receives the radio licence for Telecor and Cultural Broadcasting Inc from GNBA Chairperson, Bibi Shadick

approved by the Guyana National Broadcast Authority (GNBA).
Those that became directors are Daramchand Depoo, an Attorney-at-Law in Corentyne, Berbice, Ryan Basdeo, Khemraj Narain and Michael George.
This was done on June 21, 2013.
However, Chairperson of the GNBA, Bibi Shadick, two days earlier, on June 19, 2013, had announced that 24 licences (Radio/TV/Cable) were ready to be handed out and all that remained for the operators to do was pay their fees.
But Telecor had not satisfied the criterion for the voting rights residing in more than 50 per cent of the directors resident in Guyana. This meant that the GNBA had already approved the radio licence for Telecor and Cultural Broadcasting Inc., even before it became fully compliant as it relates to the requirements for directors.
When Bharrat Jagdeo in 2011 approved Telecor and Cultural Broadcasting Inc, for a radio licence, the company had a sole shareholder in the person of Ruth Baljit, a Guyanese national who is also a US Citizen, and resides in the United States. The Company Secretary was Omkarananda Lochan, the Permanent Secretary in Robert Persaud’s Natural Resources Ministry. He has since resigned.
The Broadcast Act requires that 51 per cent of the voting members of the Board of Directors be Guyanese nationals, residing locally.
Baljit is the sister of Robert Persaud, and was at the time the sole owner of the company.
She continues to reside in the United States.
The other Director, Kamini Persaud, is former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s niece.
This publication understands that the company had applied for a licence and when it was shortlisted, it was written to, to put its house in order.
Shadick, in November last year, called in all operators and told them that they would have to re-apply for licences, be it radio or TV. She informed the operators that they would have to ensure that their companies are incorporated, thus making them shareholding companies with the voting rights on its board of directors to be at least 51 per cent residing in Guyana.
Telecor and Cultural Broadcasting Inc. is a company that was incorporated by Attorney-at-Law, Jaya Manickchand, in 2009. The company was incorporated with 500,000 shares. Each annual return filed lists Baljit, a US citizen, as the sole shareholder.
Kaieteur News understands, too, that the company was struck off the Registrar’s Companies List for failing to file annual returns. This was denied by the company. But records show that it was restored to the Companies List in October, days before Jagdeo would have approved it for five radio frequencies.
Dharamchand Depoo, the former Company Secretary, now director, uplifted the Licence for Baljit.
Several prominent, independent media entities including Kaieteur News, Stabroek News, CNS 6, WRHM 7, RBS 13, Capitol News, HBTV 9 and GWTV 2 were all bypassed by Jagdeo. He approved frequencies to a number of others, but only allowed them one frequency each, thereby limiting the range to which they can broadcast. Those with multiple frequencies included the ruling party, and Ramroop’s radio.
The former President has also come under criticism for granting cable television licences to two companies – E-Networks Inc. and Quark Communications Inc. Both companies have Directors and shareholders with close links to him.

PPP Top Cheese

PPP Executive Robert Persaud

and House Of Isreal Black Thug Philip Bynoe

Releasing PPP 5 Year Plan (2012-2017)
at PPP HeadQuarters -

Freedom House on Oct 21 2011

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....nch-manifesto-today/

Anti Money Laundering Laws…APNU

was right to force a review by the

Select Committee – Chris Ram

“The PPP/C was unreasonable and inflexible”

Government of Guyana knew since 2011 that the 2009 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act was deficient, as was the 2000 Act it replaced.
This view is held by Financial Analyst and Chartered Accountant, Christopher Ram, in his recent writings, published on his website www.chrisram.net
According to Ram, although this was known, the government did nothing until it was too late.  Ram opined that the Parliamentary Opposition was right to force a review by the Select Committee but it then lost a good opportunity to achieve tangible results.

Financial Analyst, Christopher Ram

“All the AFC seems to have wanted was a Procurement Commission, even at the expense of a proper statutory and institutional framework and the APNU wanted a ‘good bill’ but failed to make any concrete proposals to achieve that,” Ram said.
He said that the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) on the other hand was prepared to concede nothing. “No Procurement Commission, no removal of unconstitutional provisions in the substantive Act and no concession on the existing failed model of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).”
Ram noted that although the Opposition might have been irresponsible, the PPP/C was unreasonable and inflexible.
He said that the consequence of that lethal combination is that our country can now become an “International Pariah”.
Ram further stressed that fixing the law itself is not insurmountable and with the will and flexibility, there is no reason why these cannot be satisfactorily addressed within a very short period.
He did posit that that the technical exercise will have to be matched by the willingness to tackle corruption and crime in all their manifestations, strengthening the Guyana Police Force, the Director of Public Prosecutions Office and the Courts.
Ram said that it was time for the Commissioners to be appointed to the Integrity Commission.
He advocated for the Public Procurement Commission to be established, the introduction of the long-promised whistleblower legislation and the appointment of an Ombudsman.
“Absent a proper institutional framework, all the legislation in the world will be completely ineffective,” Ram noted.
Moreover Ram said that while the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) has drawn attention to deficiencies in the Anti Money Laundering act, there are other weaknesses which it appears to have overlooked.
Ram explained that section 2 (2) (1) of the act is clearly out of place. According to Ram, some of the freezing and forfeiture provisions seem to collide with fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
Moreso, he said, the provisions regarding the admission of otherwise inadmissible evidence, standard of proof and closed hearings do not seem to accord with the constitutional rights of citizens.
Apart from meeting the CFATF requirements to bring Guyana in compliance with its obligations under regional and international regime to deal with money-laundering and terrorism financing, the Act clearly has serious defects.
The very structure of the Act, the role and location of the FIU and the appointment of a Director who seems totally out of his depth in terms of enforcement of the Act, all suggest a feeble, cosmetic attempt to address money laundering, said Ram.
“This state of affairs should not be allowed to continue…Money laundering has not only social and economic implications – distorting competition, driving out legitimate businesses and fuelling tax evasion – but it also has implications for crime…The proceeds of corrupt transactions have to be laundered while the guns brought into Guyana and used to kill, are often financed by laundered money.”