Excellent! Well said BGurd!

Carib bai can holler and scream about PPP theft and corruption from now until thy kingdom come---the reality is his beloved PNC will never, ever win an election in Guyana.

Rev

PPP dat good at riggin eh?

They got good at leeching. All of those suckere from Jagdeo to Jabba the Hutt ramorat were church mice with barely a pot to piss in an they are now all fat cats on  Guyanese politicians salary of under 30K us a year! Yes, th ey made less than A mickey dees manager and they turned that into assets a hundred fold these past two decades! Why did they not most of them not even own a room in a logie before they entered office?

The PPP did a pi$$ poor job of "managing" the returns in the last election---no way they should have lost Region 8 by 254 votes---poor job of "managing" the returns.

That wont happen again.

Rev

In your little feeble mind.  The PNC stole the goose and starved the nation.  Yes, I think some PPP boys filling their pockets, but they stealing the eggs not the goose.  In the end, it will be returned to the nation as they are investing in Guyana as opposed to the USA, Canada and the Islands.

ow bai, is nah me pen the (below) 'lament' in a flash of clarity earlier on the thread . . .

baseman: "When the PPP is defeated, don't expect Jagdeo and much of his camp to remain in Guyana."

i guess fip, brazzie, mannie, the dacta dacta dacta ex-prezzie, anchor babeee robbert, and green cyard/ foreign passport holding tiefmen like de presidential best fren's worst-case retirement plan is Social Security in Region 11 . . . nah suh bai?

logical consistency is not your strong suit, especially when 'thinking' on your knees

Private developers awarded lands

before it was advertised

OCTOBER 20, 2013 | BY KNEWS

More corruptions within the PPP/C

Whils't Guyanese has applies for House Lots years ago.

Irfaan Ally needs to go to jail

People who has applies for house lots years ago, are  being turn away by the Ministry of Home Affairs, whils't PPP/C cronies are give priveledges

Who in their righted mind will vote for this Corrupted PPP/C. If elections were held today.......the PPP/C would lose miserably.

They are selling the lands to their buddies so-called private developers who offer kick backs and charge the people lots of money.

Who will vote for these crooks:

Here is a list of SOME of the early days scams that rocked us:

STONE-SCAM:
This is a multi million dollar mission - Importation of poor quality stones from a Trinidadian Construction Company for an Essequibo Road Project. And we supposed to 'gat stones'.

MILK:
Low-grade vegetable milk was supplied to SIMAP in place of cream milk by Hanson Import and Export. The multi-million scam saw PPP MP Hugely Hamnoman resigned from his seat and migrating, missing out on police prosecution while a low level officer was dismissed.

CANE GROVE BREACH:
After being paid million of dollars the infamous BK International’s shoddy work on the Sea Defense left Cane Grove farmers (all diligent supporters of the PPP) at the mercy of the sea.
BK was not prosecuted but was rewarded with more government projects.

CHARITY WHARF FRAUD:
Well it sank, after billions of dollars was used to build it. (what a fraud - but evidence is underwater!)

LAW BOOK:
Over US$200,000 dollar contract to update law books given to PPP friend Kawal Totaram’s company New Global Consults Inc.
Never advertised locally; the contractor was no legal expert and a law student reviewed the sample copies of the laws. Please Don’t Ask!

RE-MIGRANT VEHICLES:
This saw more than 50 vehicles being imported by persons who falsely declared remigrant status - some of these were/are PPP supporters and businessmen who evaded millions of dollars in duty.

WILD LIFE:
Export of precious wildlife amounting to more than $50 million and who gets blamed? EPA’s head Bal Persaud was blamed but jumped to the media to refute the claims and guess who is the advisor to the President named in this one?

EXPORT OF DOLPHINS:
Thug, soup drinker, miner and Adviser to the President Lumumba spare headed this one. But we rather not comment on this one when we could send you to http://www.biodiversityreporti...;date=January%202005
More to come on this guy who was given a concession by Jagdeo and promptly sold it for US$2million.

POLAR BEER:
$300 million fraud that rocked the Guyana Revenue Authority after cashers, customs officers and a broker were fingered in this scam. Most of them, (some plead innocence) were dragged to court - while CHIEF CULPRIT, an already Shady character and one of the persons behind the defunct LEAP and Caricom Insurance( also of the Scared Heart Church fraud) Mr. Joshua Shafeek blamed all the  wrong doings on the broker and cut himself a sweet deal and skipping prosecution. (remember the Plea bargaining Legislation).

These are but a small list of the many scams of the proud PPP administration. This is where my money is going!

http://whatzpositiveguyana.blo...agdeo-be-judged.html

The Heist of Guyana continued…

October 20, 2013 | By KNews

Sugar in deep trouble

- Workers livelihood threatened

By Rajendra Bisessar

GuySuCo is in shambles. Production in 2013 is lowest in two decades. 1993 and 1999 production was 246,528 and 321,438 respectively. GuySuCo will not meet its target of 240,000 tonnes or the 190,000 tonnes intended for the European market. There is an information shutdown. A director of the corporation refused to disclose information saying GuySuCo took a decision not to, and so the situation seems ominous. Insider information indicates that production at present may be around 150,000 tonnes. If sugar falls under 200,000 tonnes its very existence is threatened. Despite Government’s injection of $5B last year, sugar recorded its lowest production of 218,069 tonnes in two decades, a consequence of neglect for the workers, incompetence of the Board, neglect of best practices, imposition of Jagdeo’s Chinese-built factory and refusal by the government to listen to the AFC and the sugar unions. The Skeldon factory was to solve the problems, however it is producing just 36% of rated capacity. The Indians, the Australians, the Americans, the English, the South Africans and the Brazilians know about sugar, but China does not. The AFC insists that the GuySuCo Board did not carry out due diligence on the “Turnaround Plan” or the “Jagdeo white elephant”. No one, including President Ramotar, acted responsibly and sought to interrogate those plans carefully. So Guyana got shafted, thanks to the incompetence and cowardice of this GuySuCo Board. The AFC and the sugar unions warned GuySuCo, since 2009, of the imminent challenges facing the sugar industry. AFC pleaded with the Government to lessen the risks by investing more in the field infrastructure to enhance productivity. Best practice, now abandoned, allows for flooding and replanting to be every five years instead of the present 8-12 years, resulting in poorer canes for the factories. Consequently the industry moved from around 3.4 tonnes of sugar per acre to around 2.4. The spin-off effect was large quantities of fish let loose into the canals. What has caused this deterioration? The AFC is of the view that among the Board of Directors of GuySuCo, friends of the PPP, who want to live the high life off the sweat of the workers, have abandoned the one thing that would turnaround GuySuCo… good quality cane. The AFC had called for redirecting resources from the “fat cats” to the field and factories to raise the cane/sugar ratio from 12.69 in 2012 to the pre-1999 levels of 10.88. Skeldon Factory is at 16.29 while Albion is just over 10. AFC notes that in 1990, when 129,722 tonnes were produced, factories were grinding for a mean of 44% of the in-crop season. In 2012, factories were grinding for a mean of 50% of the in-crop season while international standard, net grinding time is over 80%. Why such a low rate? It is due to poor and visionless leadership, which is why AFC has called for the entire Board of Directors to be revamped. This brings us to the recent debate regarding the Chairman of the Board. Ashni Singh says that the Chairman Mr. Raj Singh is “eminently qualified, worked in sugar at a senior level, [and] has expertise in areas relevant to the management of organisations like the sugar company”. However, according to GuySuCo’s Newsletter of October 2007 – Mr. Singh “joined the Sugar Industry in 1975 as an Industrial Relations Officer and left the industry as a Regional Industrial Relations Manager”. But never with a factory nor field team. In the USA, he was employed in the human resource field and is presently employed as a Head of a Division within the Human Resources Department. Mr. Raj Singh is definitely not qualified for the specialized task of rejuvenating sugar, Public service Minister, yes, if PPP wants to repay him for services rendered to the party. Raj Singh’s monthly emolument is excessive. “You cannot throw bacon for the boys and bones to the workers,” was the response of Alliance for Change (AFC) Vice Chairman, Moses Nagamootoo. When Booker Tate took over in 1990, they recognized the most important input was the human resource. They increased the wages by over 200% between 1990 and 1992. Labour unrest reduced significantly and there was an influx of new labour into the industry. The AFC in its 2011 campaign demanded a 20% across the board increase in wages for all workers. The AFC has since amended its demand to 10% for those at the bottom of the wage scale to stimulate a repeat of the labour relations success achieved by Booker Tate. The PPP overlords refused to budge. Ashni Singh stated that sugar in Guyana has a comparative advantage, so it’s inexplicable that our citizens could have gone to Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados and worked in the fields and sent back money to accomplish so much for their families, but the workers in sugar here are catching hell. Does the AFC have proposals? Yes it has and these among others were made public. Diversification Production of ethanol; the AFC Action Plan advocates a National E10 (10% blend of ethanol and gasoline) thus enhancing the cash-inflows, therefore guaranteeing Workers’ wages. The AFC would transform sugar from a subsistence level industry, with “slave-like” conditions of employment, to a value added industry that focuses on mechanised harvesting, ethanol production, packaged sugar, refined sugar and alcohol production. Emolument The AFC has mapped the funding for increased pay: charging NDIA a premium rate for technical assistance in times of flooding; re-negotiating the shipping contracts to secure better value; negotiating a reduction in the interest rates with the banks; cutting administrative cost by weeding out multi-million-dollar perks for cronies; asking the Ministry of Commerce to foot the bill for Marketing and Distribution expenses; identifying more non-value added cost streams in the industry and weeding them out swiftly without political interference. The members of the new Board must have access to line managers to share ideas on a programme of rehabilitation and rationalization to enhance the efficiency on each estate by allowing them to contribute towards fixing the problem. Such a plan will ensure GuySuCo’s Board, senior management and line-managers have cash flow numbers per estate/cost centre on a weekly basis to make decision at different levels. Increase and mechAnise cane cultivation Private farmers at Skeldon are hesitant and uneasy about growing more cane because of the financial risks. The AFC suggests public/private partnerships with the private planters to get all the new fields at Skeldon mechanised and planted within a defined time by using the billions from NICIL/LOTTO funds finally for a national project that is beneficial to the nation. The AFC advocates the use of these funds to leverage more funds from the banking sector to accelerate the mechanisation and planting schedule CONSOLIDATION  OF ESTATES The CEO needs full freedom to cap financial leaks and to consolidate the operations of more Estates – one Administrative Manager for West Demerara and one for East Demerara – and to sell some of the excess houses. FULL TRANSPARENCY Involve all stakeholders, the Unions, the Parliament and the Private Sector. GuySuCo’s books must be open for the key stakeholders. Minister Singh must lay the new three-year turnaround plan in Parliament and publish it in the national newspapers to build a winning coalition to save the industry.

Transparency International continued to rank Guyana as among one of the most corrupt countries in the world, Jagdeo was quick to they were coming to the country and making “blanket statements”.

But a number of scams and frauds committed has left one asking where are the serious investigations and prosecutions.

Here is a list of SOME of the early days scams that rocked us:

STONE-SCAM:
This is a multi million dollar mission - Importation of poor quality stones from a Trinidadian Construction Company for an Essequibo Road Project. And we supposed to 'gat stones'.

MILK SCAM:
Low-grade vegetable milk was supplied to SIMAP in place of cream milk by Hanson Import and Export. The multi-million scam saw PPP MP Hugely Hamnoman resigned from his seat and migrating, missing out on police prosecution while a low level officer was dismissed.

CANE GROVE BREACH:
After being paid million of dollars the infamous BK International’s shoddy work on the Sea Defense left Cane Grove farmers (all diligent supporters of the PPP) at the mercy of the sea.
BK was not prosecuted but was rewarded with more government projects.

CHARITY WHARF FRAUD:
Well it sank, after billions of dollars was used to build it. (what a fraud - but evidence is underwater!)

LAW BOOK:
Over US$200,000 dollar contract to update law books given to PPP friend Kawal Totaram’s company New Global Consults Inc.
Never advertised locally; the contractor was no legal expert and a law student reviewed the sample copies of the laws. Please Don’t Ask!

RE-MIGRANT VEHICLES:
This saw more than 50 vehicles being imported by persons who falsely declared remigrant status - some of these were/are PPP supporters and businessmen who evaded millions of dollars in duty.

WILD LIFE:
Export of precious wildlife amounting to more than $50 million and who gets blamed? EPA’s head Bal Persaud was blamed but jumped to the media to refute the claims and guess who is the advisor to the President named in this one?

EXPORT OF DOLPHINS:
Thug, soup drinker, miner and Adviser to the President Lumumba spare headed this one. But we rather not comment on this one when we could send you to http://www.biodiversityreporti...;date=January%202005
More to come on this guy who was given a concession by Jagdeo and promptly sold it for US$2million.

POLAR BEER:
$300 million fraud that rocked the Guyana Revenue Authority after cashers, customs officers and a broker were fingered in this scam. Most of them, (some plead innocence) were dragged to court - while CHIEF CULPRIT, an already Shady character and one of the persons behind the defunct LEAP and Caricom Insurance( also of the Scared Heart Church fraud) Mr. Joshua Shafeek blamed all the wrong doings on the broker and cut himself a sweet deal and skipping prosecution. (remember the Plea bargaining Legislation).

TODAY THERE IS A NEW ONE: THE HOUSING SCAM: MORE LATER

Private developers awarded lands

before it was advertised

…Opposition says full blown probe needed

The Opposition has expressed alarm over admissions earlier this week that Government gave out lands to private developers over a year ago but only opened the process publicly to other players.

And yet there will be another scam in:

'Procurement' SCAM - PPP spending

taxpayer money on junk 2nd hand

trucks for use by G'town municipality

WE WILL BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MORE SCAMS:

DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT THE PPP/C WILL EVER WIN ANY ELECTIONS EVER AGAIN?

WELL I THINK THAT WE LEAVE OUT A FEW SCAMS

1) THE US$200M SKELDON SUGAR FACTORY:

MAYBE SOMEONE WILL TELL US ABOUT THE SCAM INVOLVED HERE

AND AN AVERAGE OF HOW MUCH US DOLLARS WERE SIPHONED OFF

The PPP and Guyanese owe the ACG early activists (such as Arjune Karshan, Chuck Mohan, Mel Carpen, Joe Kanhai, Flatty Singh, Danny Singh, John Drepaul, ‘V’, etc),

I agree with this statement.  Some of these fellows such as Carpen and his Guyana Day are still doing their part to promote a positive image of Guyana on the American East coast. I would also include Yochanan John with these guys. 

ANOTHER SCAM IN THE MAKING WHERE KICKBACKS AND CORRUPTIONS WILL TAKE CENTRE STAGE:

Specialty Hospital may suffer same fate as Skeldon and Amaila – Ramjattan

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjatan

Ramjatan told Kaieteur News yesterday that while he is not an expert on how Specialty Hospitals are priced, he knows that taking into consideration the corrupt disposition of the government and its propensity for profiting from kickbacks, the specialty hospital may very well be overpriced to cater for that. The contract for the construction and furnishing of the specialized equipment necessary for the hospital was given to Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited of India. According to Ramjatan, he knew of a reputable and legitimate consulting company from India that had built Specialty Hospitals before which submitted a bid for this Surgical Speciality Hospital at a lower price than the one Surendra Engineering provided. Ramjatan said that there is no evidence to date to show that this company ever built a specialty hospital.

ANOTHER FIP MOTILALL FIASCO TAKING SHAPE: THE PPP/C WILL NEVER LEARN: MORE MILLIONS OF US$ ON BACKS OF THE POOR PEOPLE OF GUYANA

"Reconciliation with constructive critics and former stalwarts, overseas activists, etc"

This must be the cornerstone of the new PPP under the leadership of Jagdeo, Donald and the others.  Don't follow the path chosen by the precious leadership where reconciliation was only extended to Burnham and Benn. 

THE POOR PEOPLE LAND SCAM CONTINUES:-

Among the companies and persons granted lands for private development are Windsor Estates; Courtney Benn; Buddy’s; Caricom General Insurance and Odinga Lumumba.

Nepotism

According to the Member of Parliament (MP), the granting of major pieces of land to certain favoured businessmen, who then will “favour” the ruling PPP and its officials in return, is core policy under former President Bharrat Jagdeo which continues today.

“This blatant nepotism fortifies the PPP in its capacity to pay and get things done and to reveal itself as so well-oiled and organised, to the disadvantage of other social and political groups. It is corrupt and corrupting. It is a sort of rigging.”

Ramjattan said that AFC’s investigations are revealing that the “prime” lands were sold very cheaply by Government to their friends in 50 and 100 acres plots.

The PPP is in panic mode due the lost of support from the diaspora.

Even their supporters from Berbice is saying "lets kick these bums out of Office"

They really have to go back to the grassroots as Cheddi would say. What can I say, these dunces will just kick themselves out of Office.

The people of Berbice are fed up with empty election promises. Their eyes have opened up and they will most likely not vote.

Lost Votes would equal to lost Ministerial Seats, I can see in the future less seats for the PPP/C, simple they are voting themselves out of Office

http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/80482

Look how St Kitts is helping out Guyanese who are so desperate to stay on the little island!  Most of them are INDIANS who daily go to beg him not to toss them out.  BTW when I visited there not too long ago the best jobs that I saw your people doing was sales clerk jobs in tourist shops.  Certainly NOT operating the heavy equipment which are4 the best jobs in construction.  And NOT owning businesses either.  Yet they beg the PM to stay in StK/N.

FYI the Bajans tolerate the black Guyanese.  Its the Indian ones who they do not like as you all carry your hatred of blacks to a majority black island.  The Bajans say that they have enough to deal with from their own local white population and arent about to let half starved peasants fleeing a party who they voted in to bring the same racist attitudes about blacks.

Druggie tell us about how Amaila Falls has run dry and try to justify how the insistence of the PPP that Guyana ought to have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars (and have already alegedly spent US$30 million) is good for Guyana.

The hotels in Guyana are 50% empty, even though there are fewer than 500 rooms.  So tell me how adding 200 rooms is a smart idea.  Not every one who currently stays in the other hotels will go to Marriott, so where will they get the 70% AVERAGE accupany rate to be viable?

Why does CBJIA require EIGHT jetways?

Guysuco is on the brink of bankruptcy and is now almost as unviable as it was when the PNC ran it...of course.  Yes that party which was certainlt NOT a friend to that industry.