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!
Former Member
Former Member
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.
Former Member
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?
Former Member
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.
Former Member
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).
Former Member
TODAY THERE IS A NEW ONE: THE HOUSING SCAM: MORE LATER
Former Member
Originally Posted by asj:
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.
Former Member
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
Former Member
WE WILL BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MORE SCAMS:
DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT THE PPP/C WILL EVER WIN ANY ELECTIONS EVER AGAIN?
Former Member
WELL I THINK THAT WE LEAVE OUT A FEW SCAMS
1) THE US$200M SKELDON SUGAR FACTORY:
Former Member
Originally Posted by asj:
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
Former Member
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Stabroek News, October 7, 2013
Dear Editor,
I was in the audience (as a scribe reporting for community publications) last Friday evening at the Queens public meeting where President Donald Ramotar updated the diaspora on the state of affairs in their homeland and fielded questions.Donald was booed a couple times (for remarks contrasting crime and sanitation with other countries and on corruption) and praised several times. What struck my attention was not what the President said but what he did not do or say. He failed to acknowledge and recognize the significant contributions of some towering New York-based personalities who helped to put the PPP into office and who played a critical role in the restoration of democracy in Guyana. He should have used his trip and or the speech to bring healing to and unite the disparate factions of the PPP’s support group, Association of Concerned Guyanese.
At the Ramotar public engagement, I saw former loyalists of the Association of Concerned Guyanese, support group of the PPP in America, who had a public fall-out with Mr Ramotar and who were very critical of him prior to the November 2011 elections. I know these individuals very well since 1977 having joined them (though I am not an ACG member) in protests, rallies, picketing exercises, etc, against the 24 year old PNC dictatorship. They were a small group but very dedicated to the cause and effective at organizing public actions and several of them attended numerous protest events and rallies organized by myself, Dr Baytoram Ramharack and Vassan Ramracha – all pioneers and founding fathers of the New York Guyanese revolutionary movement that helped to usher in democracy in the homeland. 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), and later ones like Joe Kanhai, Abudul Hafeez, Chris Sarabit and his brother Michael, Samad Ally, individuals like Ramharack, Ramracha, Joe Ragnauth (DLM), Mahadeo Persaud, Dr Ravi Dev, Pandit Ramlall, Ramesh Kalicharran, Vishnu Bandhu, others activists of the WPA support group, etc a debt of gratitude for their commitment to the struggle. Political struggle was not easy. Very few people were interested in Guyana and we could not raise a dollar from them. Only a handful of us took up the cudgel — unrelenting in our activism to lobby international organizations and governments for the restoration of democracy in our former homeland. Even a Chinese Jamaican, Richard Chin, who joined us in the struggle, deserves kudos. Many of the activists suffered tremendously because of their commitment to the struggle – families were neglected and broken. Because they were so strongly wedded to the anti-dictatorial movement, some marriages ended in divorce. Some of the activists like Ramharack, Vassan, and myself gave virtually all of our financial resources to the movement; our incomes were used to fund activities and print literature for free public distribution. Virtually no New Yorker, apart from Karshan who served as Ambassador to Suriname for over 10 years, who partook in the revolution was ever recognized, honoured or rewarded for their immense contributions to the struggle. A few opportunists were highly rewarded. The ACG splintered after the restoration of democracy and the departure of Karshan who was the leader of the group for many years.
President Ramotar had a historic and unique opportunity last Friday to make a gesture to those former stalwarts of the struggle of the need for healing and a desire to reconcile factions. The presence of some of these ACG founders and activists, once critics of Mr Ramotar and former President Jagdeo, at the meeting was a clear signal of their desire for reconciliation with the PPP leadership but no one paid heed. President Ramotar should have taken advantage of his presence in NY to unite the various factions and to bring former stalwarts together.
Compromise and reconciliation with critics (overseas and domestic) are critical for the PPP especially if it is to recover lost support. The former PPP activists, turned critics, are not enemies of the party. They ought to be recognized for their hard work to help liberate Guyana from oppressive rule. On the issue of reconciliation, the PPP also needs to reach out to others who left (or were pushed out) for whatever reason. One name that comes to mind (and there are several including Lionel Peters, Sasenarine Singh, etc) is the experienced and highly respected Ralph Ramkarran. The PPP cannot afford to lose one vote and it will be very difficult for the party to win a majority in the next election without Ramkarran (given that Moses Nagamootoo is campaigning against the PPP) high in the line-up. And elections are not far away with Moses threatening a no confidence vote, the PNC saying it is ready for an election, and the PPP saying elections will be held soon. Reconciliation with constructive critics and former stalwarts, overseas activists, etc, is urgently needed by President Ramotar and General Secretary Clement Rohee in order to strengthen the party.
Yours faithfully,
Vishnu Bisram
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.
Former Member
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
Former Member
"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.
Former Member
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.
Former Member
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
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.
Originally Posted by asj:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
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.
Former Member
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Originally Posted by asj:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
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
Former Member
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
.?
So this is your evidence, "every child in Guyana knows"? Its a good thing the international community don't listen to the likes of you who hurl unsubstantiated accusations. My family provide gainful employment to hundreds of Guyanese, what have you and yours done? Nothing, just badmouth the doers and become consummate sour pusses.
The pnc and you are intent on destroying the nation, you preach to your people the life of entitlement and slacking off while others break their back working for what they achieve. You then turn around and tell your people that they were robbed of their birthright and they should kill and maim Indian because they deserve it. Sounds familiar? Yes Hitler did the same to the Jews.
The PNC/afc operatives will continue to flock to Barbados to push drugs and rob and kill. That is why the Bajans want them out. Guyana has lots of opportunity that is why we see all the housing boom and labor shortages. Life is good, only pnc/afc types will cry out that they are suffering because they are too lazy to work and prefer to rob.
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.
Add Reply
Sign In To Reply
136 online (1 member
/
135 guests)