They are even scared to hold Local Democratic Elections, waan cut ass is waiting for them.

Stop peddling propaganda, it is the afc/pnc contingent that held up local election. They purposely did not show up to meetings to hash out the agreements required for local election as per Herdmanston Accord.

When their lies were exposed, the afc/pnc contingent hurriedly came to the meetings and did what they should have done since 1998.

This is the problem with you gullible armchair analysts from the comfort of your overseas residence. You like to opine about Guyana when you are not knowledgeable about its politics. 

Apparently parliament already passed the amendments necessary but Ramotar is now afraid to sign.  So who is holding it up?  You know it must be the PPP which babbles continuously about a snap poll, but remains silent about local govt elections.

I assume that you have sold your home in NJ and have now relocated to Guyana to work in your family's business.  If not then arent you not just another "armchair analyst living outside of Guyana"?

Quote "Apparently parliament already passed the amendments necessary but Ramotar is now afraid to sign."unquote

That is simple, the PPP?/C are very much scared now of any elections,

so they might come up with all kinds of excuses for postponing.

2 months ago the agreements to allow for local elections were ratified. Ramoutar is playing his cards carefully, he is considering a snap general elections instead.

CaribJ everyone in the world

except de man whose Godee was hanging

Half and Half on the Bar...

know...

it is the PPP who held up

Local Govt Elections after 1994.

The Local Govt Election DELAY after 1994

Had nothing to do with PNC

Nothing to do with Hermanston Accord in 1998

Nothing to do with AFC which was formed in 2005

and Now 2013.... nothing to do with 

De Coma Godey Walla suffering from......

since de collapse of the Bicycle Bar

because of the risk caused by.... 

extra load placed daily on the Bicycle Bar

because of De Hanging Balls

We have eyewitness Report

We have the police report

We have the wreckage

What mo else we need to call

De Local Govt Elections due all these years....

The PPP has made life unbearable for the poor

Punishing Poor People Continuously

NOVEMBER 21, 2012 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS

Dear Editor,

Since knowing ourselves, Guyana has always been a country in political turmoil, the struggle for independence, the struggle for free and fair elections and today the struggle for good governance and against a system that rewards corruption and penalizes those who want to play by the rules.

Throughout our history all these experiences have taught us that life for the poor and the working class remains almost unbearable. Even the small business and peasant class “catching fire” under this Jagdeo/Ramotar regime.

If one is to observe the comments coming out of Berbice on the issue of blackout under this PPP regime it is a clear that day to day life in Guyana remains painful and no amount of PPP propaganda can erase the burning in the belly of the people.

Sukhai, a farmer said in Stabroek News What the people Say Column, “This blackout is very terrible because when the current goes on and off… our appliances get burn and damage ….. and we do not receive any refund from GPL.” Sukhai further stated as a poultry farmer, “…. when the current goes off these chicken suffer.”

But stay with us and listen to Sukhai. Sukhai revealed a reality that the ordinary people in PPP Guyana face every day when he said “…while there is blackout during the day and the pipe is running it (the water) cuts off. We do not have water to use and this is really bad for the people in Berbice.”

Thank you Mr. Sukhai for speaking your truth and for exposed several cases of irrational underdevelopment because of poor governance and corruption under the PPP namely:

1. The PPP executes capital (fund) punishment on this farmer by damaging his appliances resulting in him spending what he does not have, on new appliances. This is the PPP formula to keep Sukhai in perpetual poverty. He did not damage his TV; GPL and by extension the PPP did but they refuse to refund him for his loss of wealth.

2. As his chicken dies as a result of poor electricity supply, his ability to multiply his wealth is put at risk by the PPP. Thus his return on his investment reduces with every chicken that dies as a result of blackouts. Under the PPP this farmer is not guaranteed a fixed rate of return for his investment and labour.
However this same PPP has guaranteed the rate of return for all the mega-investors in Guyana (the Marriot Hotel investors, the Berbice Bridge investors, the Amaila Fall project investors and even Buddy Shivraj when he invested in the Princess Hotel). No risk for the rich friends, family and business buddies of the ruling Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal. This is the PPP brand of working class party for you!

3. Water is life; at least that is what the United Nations tells us. However, under the PPP, potable water remains a luxury that is not easily accessible in the land of many water. Water is a critical element for every family and if you do not have reliable access to water, then you cannot run a poultry farmer properly; much less manage a family satisfactorily. The risk posed by denying this farmer water in times of Blackout has to be responded to by the majority in Parliament.
A motion must be passed demanding a full, independent and transparent investigation of the operations of GPL.
It is time the leadership from all political forces including the back benchers in the PPP, rise up and demand justice for the people of Berbice. Mr. Zulfikar Mustapha and his side-kick Mr. Jafarally, who like to flounce on Berbice TV to sing the praises of the PPP should wake up from their slumber and stop telling the people Alice in Wonderland stories. All is not well in Berbice.
They’re living in a world of their own and they’re trying to reduce the rest of us to the same condition of losing touch with reality. We call on the AFC to highlight the real suffering of the Berbicians to all of Guyana, especially in those areas that the PPP thinks they got tribal rights.
Let us bring the nation back to its centre of gravity where the people more actively resist non-violently the oppressors in the current regime, just like how they resisted the colonialist and the Burnham dictatorship.

Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

Ramotar administration is a mirror image of the

corruption, thievery, drugs & nepotism that were

the hallmark of the Jadgeo

Donald Ramotar has lived up to the expectations of his detractors
NOVEMBER 4, 2012 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS

Dear Editor,

It was clear to many political observers and other interested parties that the Peoples Progressive Party Civic, did not field the best candidate at the November 2011 elections. The critics at that time argued that Ramotar was weak and an untested; that he was not a critical thinker and had never held elected office or managed any complex governmental or non-governmental organization. Ramotar was perceived as a party hack, who was hand chosen by then president Bharatt Jagdeo, for all of the reasons mentioned.
However, in keeping with Stalinist tradition the other more prepared and credible candidates all bowed out and acceded to the dictate of the Jagdeo faction at Freedom House. To be fair there were voices that championed the candidacy of Donald Ramotar, they claimed that he was a man who had come from humble beginnings and was involved in the labour movement, that he was a fair and honest man; in other words he was not Jagdeo. Today as we approach the one year anniversary of the Ramotar presidency what I find interesting but not surprising is that the naysayers were right. Donald Ramotar the seventh president of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana has lived up to the expectations of his detractors; he is a weak, ineffective and visionless head of state.
In December 2011 at his inauguration president Ramotar told the nation that he would appoint his cabinet in two days and even flirted with the possibility of a cross-party government. Integrity, inclusivity and impartiality were the hallmark of a well balanced inaugural address; however, forty eight hours later Ramotar retained his predecessor’s cabinet, dashing all hopes for inclusivity, integrity and impartiality.
Within days of forming his new government, on December 6th 2011 peaceful demonstrators were shot by the police while processing in Georgetown. This was followed by a bitter budget debate that saw for the first time in recorded history a sitting government picketing against the parliamentary opposition. Ramotar had promised that he was prepared to work together with all the political parties and stakeholders, but when it came to the National Budget, his minority government was not prepared to work with the Parliamentary majority APNU/AFC.
The budget crisis spawned the Linden electricity crisis, when the PPPC government imposed on the people of Linden an undue hardship (an increase in the electric tariff), without negotiating or consulting with the peoples representatives. In his inaugural address president Ramotar spoke of the exciting task of creating opportunities for all Guyanese, yet within three months of taking office he was imposing a draconian tax on a community (Linden) where 70% of the people are unemployed or severely under-employed.
It was becoming quite clear that the new Head of State’s rhetoric were equidistant from his actions and his government’s treatment of the poor and depressed communities. As the situation escalated at Linden and the people and their Regional and national leaders called on the president to meet with them, to sit down and listen and consult, this president refused. Then came July 18th 2012 and three young men were brutally murdered after the Guyana Police Force again opened fire on peaceful protestors at the Mackenzie-Linden bridge.
The following day the president met with the Opposition Leader and Regional representatives, but by this time it was too late; property would be destroyed and more people would be shot by the police, all because of a government’s refusal to meet it constitutional mandate of consulting with the people and their elected representatives. Consumed by crisis, and showing no real flair for bold and innovative leadership, the Ramotar administration continued as a mirror image of the corruption, thievery, drugs and nepotism that were the hallmark of the Jadgeo years.
Once again innocents lives of young African men were taken, killed at the hands of the police; Shaquille Grant at Agricola; Dameon Belgrave in Georgetown.
In a side note, it was no surprise a few days ago that the longest serving member of the cabinet and president Ramotar’s Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee admitted under oath, when answering a question from Attorney Basil Williams(at the Linden Commission of Inquiry), that he(Rohee) was not a visionary. So, with a head of state that has proven to be weak, ineffective and visionless, surrounded by a cabinet that is mediocre for the most part, but generally less than stellar there is not much hope for the ensuing period of the Ramotar presidency.
Mr. Editor I truly searched for something complimentary to say about this period, but all I could find was controversy and conflict. In a country where most of the people would be classified as poor, the Ramotar government celebrates things and calibrates its development based on big buildings, poorly conceived roads and brand name hotels rather than human development.
The level of unemployment in this country is unsustainable, the under education of our children and the school dropout rate nationally is unsustainable, the crime situation and the lawlessness of our law enforcement agencies is unsustainable, yet this president has been deathly silent and has failed to lead on all of these important issues facing our nation.
Even if one graded on a curve it would be difficult to give this president anything but a failing grade in his first year in office.
Mark Archer

After 20 years of the PPP, Guyana remains a

semi-primitive society

Ten months after the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime promised to end corruption and create jobs, we are left to wonder what the regime has done so far. Not only they have not reduced corruption and created jobs but they seem incapable of easing the burden on the poor and the working class. With unemployment on the rise, the PPP regime has been shown to be devoid of a feel for the economic reality in the country. Mr. Ramotar’s most recent statement that he will modernize Guyana is nothing more than a propaganda exploit. After 20 years of PPP rule, Guyana remains a semi-primitive society where people have to wait for extremely long hours in lines for service from every government department/agency, the traffic lights are in a mess, public hospitals are in shambles, and despite Priya Manickchand’s saying that all is well, public schools and UG are collapsing. In addition, constant power outages and the lack of potable water have become the norm, Georgetown is now the garbage/stink city instead of the Garden City, crimes have spiralled out of control and corruption has reached new heights never seen before in Guyana. But the fact that the cabal says the country is developing shows that the PPP regime is in denial.

President Ramotar’s refusal to change course is truly a nightmare. He has failed in his most important duty as President to correct the failed and corrupt policies of the previous regime. In office for almost a year, Mr. Ramotar did little more than play night watchman over the policies he inherited from Jagdeo. He did not even bother to give any of his predecessor’s policies a little tweak to convince the nation that he is making the necessary changes to ease the burden on the poor and the working class. This type of behaviour is difficult to explain to the average Guyanese except for the fact that coming from the corridors of Freedom House; it is a normal course of action.

We had hoped that having experienced the consequences of Jagdeo’s unpreparedness to deal with crime, corruption, and the trafficking of narcotics, President Ramotar would have been better prepared to address them. By now, his government should have had plans to restructure the country’s fiscal, monetary and trade policies to increase economic output and provide greater economic opportunity for the people while at the same time tackle corruption, crime, and the illegal trafficking of drugs. But this PPP regime seemed to have come to office with nothing more than dreams of ending corruption and the delusionary idea that employment can be created without an economic development plan.

Apart from that, the 2011 elections proved to be an act of providence for the combined parliamentary opposition parties—AFC and APNU. The opposition’s unique perspective of being the architect of a majority in Parliament gave them a better-than-average chance of developing strategies that could begin the process of correcting past mistakes and charting a new course towards real economic development. For the opposition to be taken seriously by the people, it has to pressure the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime to reduce VAT, create jobs, provide tangible increases in wages for civil/public servants, and establish the Procurement Commission and an Anti-Corruption Agency.

But the AFC and APNU have squandered this rare privilege and instead spent their time engaged in squabbling over inconsequential issues unrelated to the reality of the country’s economic and social dilemma and the urgent need to radically change the parlous state of the poor and the working class. This is clearly revealed by the fact that the list of issues the majority opposition have dealt with in Parliament is hardly recognizable in anything that would improve the lives of the poor and the working class.

That there has been no real progress by the majority opposition is not surprising. We have pointed out in previous letters that the PPP regime is lacking in substance but are we to believe that the combined opposition is no better prepared to tackle and improve the country‘s economic and social problems?

For more than a decade, Guyana’s finances have been grossly mismanaged by the Jagdeo regime. Today CLICO is bankrupt; the NIS is in dire financial straits and NICIL cannot account for millions of taxpayers’ dollars. The depth of the country’s financial crisis cannot be denied. Yet the PPP regime is in denial of this reality. They do not seem to grasp the urgency of the situation. What is required are honesty and a set of realistic goals to weed out corruption, create jobs and chart a pragmatic course that will improve the lives of the poor and the working class.

Because the PPP cabal controls the purse strings, it has been very easy for them to influence the electorate with baseless promises and illusory goals. The poor and the working class has for too long been the victim of this kind of crooked leadership. The PPP’s politics over the years has been nourished by racial voting which they have used to make a section of the population gullible. Its leaders have always said that “the people are their greatest asset.” Yet they have been selling them a pie in the sky at election time rather than telling them the truth. Wake up people!

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Asquith Rose
and Harish S. Singh

TOMORROW IS SATURDAY AND LIKE MANY OTHER SATURDAYS: AND EMPLOYERS IS MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE LABOR MINISTER LAWS OF FIVE DAY OR FORTY HOURS: A TRIP TO GEORGETOWN ON SATURDAY WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF BLATANTLY DISREGARD FOR THE GOVERNMENT LAWS.

EMPLOYERS WHO ARE ACTUALLY FRIENDS OF THE PPP/C ARE WORKING THEIR EMPLOYEES SIX DAYS PER WEEK WITHOUT OVERTIME AND YET THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE DOES NOTHING

PPP/C FOR YOU:

Guyana is now a full-fledged criminal republic.

Criminality has found a safe haven in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR,
No country can flourish in a society of criminality, crime, wrongdoing and breakdown of the rule of law. This is the kind of society Guyana has become under the PPP. The drug trade flourished under the PPP when other countries in the region saw major decline in drug trafficking. While Colombia has reduced the impact of drug trafficking, Guyana has become a drug trafficking haven.
As long as we continue to have drugs in Guyana, we will have serious crime, corruption and the breakdown of law and order. Guyana is now a full-fledged criminal republic. Criminality has found a safe haven in Guyana. Let’s get something straight. Crime in Guyana did not start with the PPP. Crime has been around for time immemorial and upsurged under the PNC regime.
What the PPP did was that it took crime and criminality in Guyana to an entirely crippling, sickening and frightening other level. Everything in terms of crime we had under the PNC we basically have under the PPP with some differences and exceptions.
In every society we will have crimes of passion, domestic violence, crimes against people and property, crimes of opportunity and crimes of corruption. Guyana under the PNC of particularly the 1980s saw its fair share of such crimes. We have seen more crime and criminality under the PPP despite its boast of economic development.
What is it that has caused these richer or less poorer and better living Guyanese to engage in more murdering, killing, slaughtering, domestically abusing, robbing, thieving, kicking down doors, filling their pockets and corrupting than they ever did when they were dirt poor, starving and destitute under the PNC?
The collapse of the rule of law, the drug trade and the rampant corruption and stealing from the public treasury are important answers. However, the PPP has encouraged a permissive culture of condoning corruption, immorality and stealing. Its bigwigs not only steal, but arrogantly display their stolen goods in extravagant style, throwing up mansions, driving luxury vehicles out of the reach of even the middle class in developed countries and living in brazen style.
This creates greed, covetousness, envy, keeping-up-with-the-neighbours mentality and copycat tendencies, particularly when others know the spoils were from ill-gotten. So, the decent-minded citizen will start accepting bribes or pilfering money from the people. Or the cop will leave his job and become a drug cartel enforcer. Then there is another set of criminals who think there is nothing wrong in invading the homes of these individuals and robbing them.
One cannot discount the skyrocketing cost of living issue. Everything costs a lot of money in Guyana. Criminality has made a handful of criminal entrepreneurs and those they bribe very wealthy. So has those outrageous fat cat salaries paid by the PPP to thousands of party hacks. This has created another small cabal of wealthy, using taxpayers’ money. Then there are the thieves who steal the public money and fatten themselves on the backs of the people. The spending of this small group of crooks and the corrupt, places significant pressure on the working class man and woman. Because these vagabonds can pay more for a product, they are constantly driving prices up.
When Pradoville mansions with ten bedrooms are being built, it drives up the price for building materials for the family of six building a simple home. People pressed economically start making immoral decisions and the downward spiral occurs.
Under the PNC, crime and criminality was kept to a petty level except for politically motivated crimes such as the assassination of Walter Rodney. Gun crimes were infrequent but are now a common occurrence. The drug trade existed under the PNC but was marginal at best. Contraband trading was big business but many viewed it as a moral necessity in the face of food bans.
The drug trade, proceeds from crime and the underground economy are now major centrepieces of Guyana’s economy under the PPP. The fact that the drug trade continues untouched under the PPP suggests the party sees the drug trade and the criminal economy as vital to the country’s economy.
One may argue the VAT was instituted to tax the spending of illegal wealth in Guyana. The PNC did not have a similar tax imposed on the proceeds of contraband trafficking. In fact, contraband trafficking and smuggling under the PPP is much larger than it was under the PNC.
The evidence of inaction against drug cartels points to the PPP strategically deciding to make the proceeds from drug trafficking and the underground economy a facet of its economic policy. The fact that the PPP refused to allow the DEA and the British entry to Guyana to fight the drug scourge and its denial of serious external help, strongly indicates the PPP sought to profit from the economic spinoffs of the drug trade.
Like every other jumbie and voodoo economic miscalculation of the PPP, this one backfired. Guyana grew 3.54% per annum under the PPP and 2.23% under Jagdeo, under whose rule the drug trade flourished in Guyana. There was far greater annual growth in Guyana under Cheddi Jagan when the drug trade was in its infancy.
It was a shameless, gutless and intellectually backward decision to refuse to crush the menace of the drug trade when the opportunity presented itself. Today, the drug trade benefits only a few who control it and those who are bribed by it.
The PNC had the same moral and economic dilemma as the PPP. During the heyday of the drug trade in the 1980s, where drug cartels made their most profits, the PNC could have allowed this scourge to take root to reap the economic spinoffs. But for all its skulduggery and wrongdoing, the PNC refused to take this step. Forbes Burnham and Desmond Hoyte were patriotic enough to know the price of social devastation from encouraging criminal cartels and drug networks. They knew that drug cartels do not benefit a nation. They benefit the few leaders of that cartel and the corrupt who feed off of them. Corruption under the PPP dwarfs the stealing by the PNC. The PPP is showing us what thieving and bribery really is.
A bribe for a soft drink and a tennis roll or a small pittance to feed the family for a day in the PNC days is now a demand for millions, a car, a house and school fees for an entire year for the crook’s children. When men stole under the PNC to fix the leaking roof of their existing house or their fences, men today under the PPP are stealing enough to build several mega-mansions.
The scale of corruption and pilfering under the PPP is alarmingly outlandish. These are men with the impunity and unchecked greed. There is far more money collected from tax revenues available to the bandits within the PPP. It is evident that both the PNC and the PPP created criminal states or nations wracked by criminality. But the criminality and crime has attained a catastrophic scale under the PPP. Guyana is a narco-state.
For all their wrongs, Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham knew when to draw that line in the sand. For all their flaws and there are many, these men knew that some things simply could not ever be allowed to set foot upon the country of their birth and the land of their political sacrifices. They may have loved power and worshipped foreign ideologies and run dictatorships, but they knew when nation trumped everything else. These were men who were wrong on many things, but right on a few things that matter. The prospect of economic prosperity from drug trafficking at enormous cost to the nation was not an option to these men. They preferred a life of poverty, free of drug cartel-created crime, than a life of illicit wealth created by a poisonous substance that filled the nation with crime, fear and the rawness of blood spilling.
Drug cartels and crime networks are run by a few for the benefit of a few. Wherever the drug trade blooms, death, crime and inequality take off. This is the deathly legacy of the PPP.

M. Maxwell

Daughter of the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan

leveled a blistering attack against the PPP

The daughter of the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan leveled a blistering attack against the party her father founded and there has been nary a criticism of her comments. In fact, they passed almost unnoticed because in the first instance, the woman is not known as a public figure. In the second instance the children of former presidents who choose private lives are not really newsmakers.
That the woman chose the heart of the party to address the people is significant. She must have watched the shenanigans from her home and must have read the various media reports. She must have been shaken by the steady stream of reports on the criticisms.
Indeed, she saw the homes of people who worked for salaries and knowing that her parents were also salaried people who could only afford a modest home, she had to ask questions about these people. What is not known is whether she had held discussions with some of the targets of her criticisms and whether she got answers that she found disapproving. What is known is that she was angry and perhaps ashamed that the party her father founded is not what it was intended to be.
Kaieteur News was the first of the media outlets to target the corrupt actions of people in government office. It started to examine some of the contracts that were actually over-priced. In addition, the work was slipshod and the taxpayers were asked to foot the bill.
Investigations revealed that many of the contractors were required to pay graft to secure the contract. This meant that less money was available for the particular project. In the end a compromise was reached. The contractor was allowed to overbid so that the project would not suffer unduly and the person collecting the graft got his share from the top.
The next area of focus was on the acquisitions of certain people. Many of these appeared to be part of the noveau riche when by no stretch of imagination they should have been anything but comfortable. There has been a difficulty in tracking down the finances but there has been no difficulty in identifying the assets these people acquired.
Ms. Jagan-Brancier also saw these things and she was pained. She addressed people who have been with the party from the day they were born and told them of these things. There must have been a state media presence but they never reported a line because their controllers would not have been happy with the publication and because of the embarrassment.
It would have been easy to attack the critic, had he or she been someone somewhat removed from the party but to have the criticism coming from someone so close—Ms. Jagan-Brancier and her children made a public show of joining the party when her mother died—it must have been gut-wrenching.
Surely, the hierarchy of the government must have noticed the same things that Kaieteur News and Ms. Jagan-Brancier have been talking about for so long. There were also the reports by the office of the Auditor General. These highlighted so many irregularities that surely there should have been a revamping of the financial system. There were cases of unsupported expenditure and undocumented monies, unsupported cheque accounts reports of monies being paid to contractors in excess of what they should have earned.
There were also reports of senior officials making purchases with money that they could not have earned and while an investigation was promised nothing was done.
Ms. Jagan-Brancier would have been aware of the time her mother was invited to a house opening in what is now known as Pradoville and on reaching the location, refused to attend the function when she saw the house. Mrs. Janet Jagan was asked to ask how was it that one of her party members could own such a house. Since then Janet Jagan was aware that all was not right. Her successors never took note.
In the Forbes Burnham era no one could display unexplained wealth. There was the Remigrant officer who simply had a car that appeared to be beyond the pale. This man was investigated and prosecuted. He died before going to trial.
Despite the various exposures of obvious corruption nothing has been done. Ms. Jagan-Brancier has added her voice to this rampant irregularity. While the private media have reported her contention and the state media have remained silent, the authorities cannot escape the fact that there is rampant corruption in the highest circles. The public awaits action.

The Guyanese people have a right to know about

Irfaan Ali’s property

IRFAAN ALI AGAIN!!!

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

Irfaan Ally needs to go to jail

MORE ON IRFAAN ALI

Irfaan Ali upset about being fingered in ‘corruption’ article

…Prima Facie case established but matter never heard

Housing Minister, Irfaan Ali is accusing Kaieteur News and Alliance for Change (AFC), Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, of carping on the $4B acquisition of land from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) which was used for housing development.
Ali made that accusation in response to a Kaieteur News December 11 article entitled ‘MPs to pursue jailing corrupt govt. officials’. He also objected to the use of his photograph which he claims boldly suggested that the transaction was questionable.
Ramjattan in the article stated that during the political campaign prior to the November 28 General and Regional Elections, AFC had committed itself to having corrupt Government officials be held accountable.

Housing Minister, Irfaan Ali

Of the many issues, Ramjattan stated will be investigated using the joint Parliamentary majority is the matter involving Ali against whom a prima facie case was made out for contempt of Parliament in relation to misleading the National Assembly on a $4B allocation.
That matter was never heard and according to Ramjattan died a slow death as the Ninth Parliament was dissolved thereby making it next to impossible to have the matter heard again.
Ali contended that Ramjattan should say whether he is against the $4B expenditure to create more than 15,000 house lots for Guyanese, or whether he is against the payment of the $4B to GuySuCo for housing development.
“We have made it clear that the Government through the Ministry of Housing acquired land from GuySuCo to accelerate its housing programme,” he stated.
He said that Ramjattan’s continuous misrepresentation of this fact points to his narrow-minded view of development issues.
It must be noted however that the article which the Housing Minister refers to merely cited that a prima facie case was made out against him in the National Assembly where he purportedly misled the House on the $4B allocation which it was subsequently learnt went to the GuySuCo for land acquisition.
Ramjattan had made good on a promise to seek to have disciplinary action instituted against Ali and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh when he moved a motion to have the two government officials placed before the Committee of Privileges.
A prima facie case was not made out against Dr Singh.
The action stems from what Ramjattan said was the deliberate misleading of the National Assembly as it relates to a $4B expenditure that was debated in January 2010 in a supplementary request but was later found to have been spent the previous year.
Ramjattan told the House that Ali, during consideration of a Financial Paper, told the House in response to a question from the Late Alliance For Change MP Sheila Holder, that the provision of $4B “is ready to be spent for Housing Development.”
This Ramjattan said was meant to suggest that the monies were yet to be spent.
But subsequently in February last year when the Budget Estimates were produced, it was realised that the monies had already been disbursed since the previous year.
Ramjattan told the Speaker of the House when he presented his motion that when the Estimates of the 2010 Budget were being considered in February the Housing Minister, “evaded, avoided and flagrantly refused to answer questions put to him concerning when exactly the $4B was spent, thereby failing to offer any credible clarification.
Ramjattan in his motion called for the House to signal its unanimous disapproval of Ali’s misleading statement and asked that the matter be referred to the Privileges Committee in keeping with the Parliamentary Standing.
He wanted by way of the motion to have Ali found in contempt of “this Honourable House in relation to the said statement and a determination as to the sanction that should be taken against Irfaan Ali for misleading this Honourable House.”
Then Speaker of the House Ralph Ramkarran in his ruling told the members gathered that a prima facie case was found to be made out against the Housing Minister for him to be committed to the Committee of Privileges.
The Speaker did caution that his ruling did not mean that Ali was guilty of any of the allegations against him but simply that there was enough merit in the accusations to have him be asked to defend himself in that Committee of Privileges.
Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh who was the target of a similar motion was spared the wrath as the Speaker said a prima facie case was not made out against him and as such that motion was dismissed.
In that motion against Dr Singh, Ramjattan said that the Minister in a Financial Paper in January sought approval for the Supplementary Appropriations of a sum of $6.6B and in that document it was outlined that a sum of $4B was being sought as provision for housing development.
Ramjattan was adamant in his charge that by seeking approval of the National Assembly of this sum of $4B on January 11, 2010, the Minister of Finance was presenting to the National Assembly that the sum was to be spent on a date after the day when the National Assembly would have approved the expenditure.
He again pointed out that when the Finance Minister presented the 2010 budget it was shown that the $4B asked for in January of this year was represented as spent in 2009.
Ramjattan in his motion charged that there is a patent contradiction with regard to the representation of the Minister of Finance as it relates to the $4B expenditure, and as such he should be placed before the Committee of Privileges.
Ramjattan said that “to lie in Parliament is fundamentally a breach of the conventions and privileges…you do not lie to Parliament and that is exactly what they did here.”
He said that what the two Ministers have done was to blow asunder the confidence and credibility of any answers that would be coming from Ministers in the House.

So Moses nah lie in parliament and get kecth? 

JANUARY 1, 2012 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER NEWS

The construction of a house at Leonora, West Coast Demerara, is the talk of neighbours who say that the property is owned by 31-year-old Irfaan Ali, the Minister of Housing and Water.
The house appears to accommodate eight bedrooms, a large living room, a detached kitchen and a walkway that runs around the front of the building. One resident described it as a mansion.
In addition to the home there is a multi-million-dollar pool house which makes the $69 million Corentyne office of the National Insurance Scheme office look like a garage.
The cost of the construction which is nearing completion is estimated at more than $300 million if the sums paid by the government for projects that have been advertised and completed, are a yardstick.
One contractor, using the same Government estimates, said that to fence the compound of that estate would be about $50 million.
Some have actually questioned Minister Ali’s wealth bearing in mind that he came from humble beginnings and has been a Minister for just about three years.

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....sion-with-poolhouse/

Kaieteur News successfully baits another clown

from the Guyana Govt – Irfaan Ali Minister of

Housing into suing them

One would have thought the clowns at freedumb house would have wised up as to the PPP dirty laundry that these suits expose.

Housing Minister Irfaan Ali has sued Kaieteur News for $100M over a front page in New Year’s Day edition under the headline “After two years as Minister Irfaan Ali builds mansion and pool house’.
The lawsuit was filed in the High Court yesterday by the Minsiter’s Attorney-at-law, Parag Hukumchand who also sought and was granted an ex parte injunction restraining Kaieteur News from printing or publishing anything about the Minister’s house or any elated matter until the hearing and of the matter. Justice Diana Fazeela-Insanally granted the injunction and set January 19 for a hearing.

WHY THE PPP FAILED TO GAIN A MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT

January 1, 2012 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 

 
So you are saying that the PPP failed to gain a majority in the National Assembly because of Kaieteur News!

You are saying that it was Kaieteur News that swayed all those die-hard PPP supporters to stay away from the polls!

Kaieteur News must then be a very powerful force, so powerful that it created history in this country, because this is the first time since the return to democracy that the PPP has failed to gain a majority.

I don’t know what you mean that Kaieteur News is the cause of the election result because of its reporting about the sordid things that were taking place within the government.

The job of a newspaper is to report what is happening.

Kaieteur News did not manufacture the news, they only reported the news and if the news was not sordid in the first place,if the rut had not stepped in within the administration, there would have been nothing bad to report.

So don’t blame Kaieteur News because the people were seeing all along what was taking place.

The people are not stupid. Their eyes were open and they know who were responsible for what was going on.

It was not Kaieteur News that signed any contract disposing of the Sanata Complex.

It was not Kaieteur News that was responsible for the sale of a major piece of real estate to someone else after the government had spent millions refurbishing the place.

It was not Kaieteur News that decided that after the top bidder was no longer interested in a property that the second highest bidder should be bypassed in favour of the third bidder who just happened to be a friend of you know who.

It was not Kaieteur News that was refusing to disclose the name of the investor who was to originally build the Mariott Hotel.

It was not Kaieteur News that was refusing to give information about the Mariott Hotel deal.

It was not Kaieteur News that has refused to conduct an investigation into the biggest financial disaster in Guyana, the collapse of CLICO.

It was not Kaieteur News that awarded a US$15.4M road contract to Fip.

It was not Kaieteur News that allowed for a piece of the reserve to be taken up by a prominent businessman when all around the country people were being removed from off the reserves by the man known as the Hammer.

It was not Kaieteur News that first refused to pay the Diamond sugar estate workers their severance and only when the AFC took up the workers’ cause saw it fit to reverse itself and pay the workers.

It was not Kaieteur News which first issued an invitation for tenders for the one laptop per family project, only to later amend the specifications.

It was not Kaieteur News that was responsible for taking state lands on a massive scale and giving it to private developers who are already rich while there are hundreds of people still waiting their allocations from the housing ministry.

It was not Kaieteur News which in the past gave a waiver from tender board procedures for the award of contracts in the health sector.

It was not Kaieteur News that was responsible for the price of the hydroelectric project increasing significantly within a matter of months.

It was not Kaieteur News that was responsible for failing to have many controversial deals laid in parliament.

But it was Kaieteur News that had to find out from a newspaper in Jamaica that a deal had been reached with a Chinese firm for the extension of this country’s international airport.

It was not Kaieteur News that purchased three excavators for US$1.5 million dollars when the same could have been had cheaper.

But it was Kaieteur News that showed the high cost of “pumping” in Guyana.

It was not Kaieteur News that built any one-flat building for $69 million.

But it was Kaieteur News that asked for the bills of quantities.

It was not Kaieteur News that to date cannot produce an accounting statement for the money that was spent to build the National Stadium.

It was not Kaieteur News that removed state ads from the private dailies.

It was not Kaieteur News that built a huge house that caused the public to say, “OooooooH!”

And it was not Kaieteur News that took little boys and gave them big wuk and caused the people to say AaaaaaaH!”

Some of them lil’ boy also build big house.

It was not Kaieteur News, when the PPP was seemingly cruising to a comfortable electoral majority, that decided to settle scores with old enemies and turned the PPP’s election campaign into a big cuss-out affair.

It was not Kaieteur News that banned reporters because they did not ask “positive” questions and retract stories.

It was not Kaieteur News which called sections of the media carrion crows and vultures.

It was not Kaieteur News when the PPP was away ahead in the polls who decided to aggravate the opposition supporters by claiming that one of their leaders had “blood on his hands.”

So, you still want to know why the PPP failed to gain a majority?

You still want to know that? Ask the people.

They will tell you that it was the barefaced thieving that caused them to stay away,

and it was the vicious buse-out on the political platform that turned them off.

The people were stung.

They were stung by the ‘Bees’ who were getting all the honey while the sugar workers begging for a little more money.

It was the fattening of the geese that made the PPP supporters stay away from the polls and caused the PPP to not gain a majority.

The people saw who were enriching themselves at the public pipe and they decided to vote with their feet, by staying home or walking over to the other side.

That is why the PPP failed to gain a majority.

This thread should be pinned on top.

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

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

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

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

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

CJIA dismisses three staff for

soliciting money from passengers

Saturday, 26 October 2013

The Technical Institute for bribery and Corruptions

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

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

Was the weight restriction posted?

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

$600M Supenaam stelling collapses again

…loading ramp buckles under weight of trucks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Were they off Mark?

THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT JAGDEO: UNFETTERED CORRUPTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHECK AND VERIFY IF ALL THIS THIEFIG

WAS COMMITED UNDER JAGDEO....

 The stone scam;

 The Milk scam;

 The gold scam;

 The law books scam;

 The re-migrant duty-free-vehicle scam;

 The Cane Grove Conservancy Dam scam;

 The IAST scam;

 The wildlife scam;

 The export of dolphins scam;

 The Polar Beer scam; and now

 The Guysuco scam.

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

AGAIN PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE THE PNC

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

 Cocaine-in-lumber;

 Cocaine-in-molasses;

 Cocaine-in rice;

 Cocaine-in-pumpkins;

 Cocaine- in-cricket-bats;

 Cocaine-in-fish:

 Cocaine-in-eddoes;

 Cocaine-in-coconuts;

 Cocaine-in-pepper-sauce;

Cocaine-in-curry-powder;

 Cocaine-in-rum;

 Cocaine-in-baking-powder;

and Almost any other artifact or commodity leaving Guyana.

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

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

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

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

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

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

and the Skeldon bungling;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a travesty of democracy and of good governance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can the Parasites, Prostitutes,

Pimps, Panty Fellas,

Dutty Crab-Louse & House Of Isreal Thugs

come here and tell us ....

THIS IS SMALL POTATOES?

Everyone seeing this Barefaced Thiefing

What a Disgrace.....

and this Big Seed fella

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

is not ashamed to come here and tell us

it is Just Small Potatoes

and his Godey is Small Potatoes Too

you Judge for yourself....

Now Would You Believe any of the Lies

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

Kwame Or Big_Seed come and tell us here

There was a man who had a TV show

He robbed peter to pay paul 

So the TV people kicked him out

he now turn to Guyana to run he mouth

This robber man is a timid little mouse

And no better than the dutty crab louse! 

Look here how... A Crab Louse

trying to run from the Truth

If Sugrim is a Man

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

"just one"

of the things everyone including the PNC

now talking about

"Which one is not True"

jalill tearin tail, hehehe

Cain how can I allow

a Crab-Louse who cant afford

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

all abee here pun GNI....

I check he is not a Subscriber,

ee depending pun illegal Box,

Booth Leg Connection....

This time na long time....

Le eee keep dem Tem kinda lies...

fuh when eee playing with Kwame Batti@.

Dem kinda Games not for us here on GNI.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1) Bait the bribe takers and you roll them in

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

distress was photographed.

Trust someone like you to make the victims the criminals

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

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

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

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

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