Gilbakka was a card-carrying PPP financial member/activist from 1969 to 1990 and supporter until the 2011 general election. I could not support the PPP thereafter with a clear conscience, having regard to real manifestations of self-aggrandizement by many central committee members and allegations of corruption in top and middle levels of the PPP/C government.

Listen Gilbakka, you are allowed to screw up once and be forgiven, so get off the PNC mule and get back onto the PPP race horse.  Even baseman erred by voting for Barack Hussain Obama back in 2008.  I have since repented, you do the same!

Gilly. I expressed most of the sentiments to Prak last night. Like you, I am not a member buta supporter and will continue to offer the coalition critical support for now. Hope to see you at the dinner tonight.

Sorry to disappoint you, base. PPP leaders have not admitted the error of their ways yet.

Sorry to disappoint you, Mits.

Gilbakka is a denim-wearing working-class man. I don't attend suit-clad big shot dinners. I am still an AFC supporter, from the grassroots level.

Sorry to disappoint you, Mits.

Gilbakka is a denim-wearing working-class man. I don't attend suit-clad big shot dinners. I am still an AFC supporter, from the grassroots level.

Gil,

For months now I have been saying it was an exchange.  Give them 5 years and they might prove worse than the PPP.  Any new government interested in bringing about development should have leaned on the diaspora for advice since many of the smartest and more "informed" Guyanese live outside.  Sometime ago TK mentioned that he was told that the coalition directed that the diaspora be disengaged as far as getting advice from the diaspora.  Of course they still want the money to flow from the diaspora to Guyana.

I wrote Minister Patterson once offering to provide free advice on energy policies and Amalia Falls.  Once he replied and said that he would provide me the IDB report on Amalia, but I never heard back.  However, it looks like Amailia is dead so I cannot expect the report.  Anyway, I heard noting about any energy policy maybe they do not have one.  Right now I am so pissed off with them that I cannot offer them any help.

Gil,

For months now I have been saying it was an exchange.  Give them 5 years and they might prove worse than the PPP.  Any new government interested in bringing about development should have leaned on the diaspora for advice since many of the smartest and more "informed" Guyanese live outside.  Sometime ago TK mentioned that he was told that the coalition directed that the diaspora be disengaged as far as getting advice from the diaspora.  Of course they still want the money to flow from the diaspora to Guyana.

I wrote Minister Patterson once offering to provide free advice on energy policies and Amalia Falls.  Once he replied and said that he would provide me the IDB report on Amalia, but I never heard back.  However, it looks like Amailia is dead so I cannot expect the report.  Anyway, I heard noting about any energy policy maybe they do not have one.  Right now I am so pissed off with them that I cannot offer them any help.

quite the self-important one, aren't u?

smfh

Gilbakka was a card-carrying PPP financial member/activist from 1969 to 1990 and supporter until the 2011 general election. I could not support the PPP thereafter with a clear conscience, having regard to real manifestations of self-aggrandizement by many central committee members and allegations of corruption in top and middle levels of the PPP/C government.

Since 2012, I have been a supporter of the AFC. Not a card-carrying member. A supporter. To this day I remain an AFC supporter but there are things that worry me and I am speaking out now. The deeds of AFC leaders conflict with their words. Example: Last year AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan said that if the party coalesced with APNU it would become “dead meat.” The AFC is in the coalition now, and that cost the party the bulk of its 2011 Berbice votes which the PPP snapped up.

During the election campaign APNU+AFC promised public servants a 20 percent across-the-board pay increase. The coalition delivered less. APNU+AFC promised rice farmers $9,000 per bag of paddy but hasn't delivered, now pleading that prices are a private matter between millers and farmers. APNU+AFC had rightly said the PPP was a government of friends, families and cronies. Last week Minister Harmon disclosed that a part of the Ministry of the Presidency is now in the office of the former Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, and that the government is paying a monthly rent of $400,000 to the office's owners, the law firm Hughes, Fields and Stoby. AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes is a partner of that firm.

For me, the most alarming move of the coalition is the increase of government ministers' salaries by up to 50 percent, after telling public servants that it inherited a bankrupt treasury. Further, the ministerial increases are retroactive to July 1, only one month and a half after they were appointed. Furthermore, the Guyanese people learned about the pay hike through the news media which in turn got the information from the low-circulation Official Gazette. This contrasts with an APNU+AFC Joint Manifesto promise under the heading 'Good Governance Action Plan' #2 of 13: “Ensure transparency and accountability by granting access to citizens of all aspects of government's transactions and activities.”

As an AFC supporter, Gilbakka cannot swallow the pill that the pay increase will deter corruption. Incorruptible people don't need financial incentives; they live by the principle 'Honor before money'.

I have reasons to believe that the AFC leadership's actions in the government will cost it support and votes and that one day the party will become dead meat indeed. I am calling on card-carrying AFC members to speak up and tell the leaders to take stock of themselves before it's too late. Meanwhile, from now on I am offering the coalition critical support.

I could easily say there is NO Guyanese at least in Guyana with the energy policy experience I have.  You tell me one.

u really expect me to go down that absurd road with u, eh? mr senior civil servant

another delusional klown . . . another D-G, another ASJ, another seignet

smfh

u really expect me to go down that absurd road with u, eh? mr senior civil servant

another delusional klown . . . another D-G, another ASJ, another seignet

smfh

Banna if you know my personal role in developing NY energy policies you will shit your pants.  Enough said.

lol

You better lol clown hiding behind a fake alias and claiming to be educated.

u really expect me to go down that absurd road with u, eh? mr senior civil servant

another delusional klown . . . another D-G, another ASJ, another seignet

smfh

Gilbakka was a card-carrying PPP financial member/activist from 1969 to 1990 and supporter until the 2011 general election. I could not support the PPP thereafter with a clear conscience, having regard to real manifestations of self-aggrandizement by many central committee members and allegations of corruption in top and middle levels of the PPP/C government.

Since 2012, I have been a supporter of the AFC. Not a card-carrying member. A supporter. To this day I remain an AFC supporter but there are things that worry me and I am speaking out now. The deeds of AFC leaders conflict with their words. Example: Last year AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan said that if the party coalesced with APNU it would become “dead meat.” The AFC is in the coalition now, and that cost the party the bulk of its 2011 Berbice votes which the PPP snapped up.

During the election campaign APNU+AFC promised public servants a 20 percent across-the-board pay increase. The coalition delivered less. APNU+AFC promised rice farmers $9,000 per bag of paddy but hasn't delivered, now pleading that prices are a private matter between millers and farmers. APNU+AFC had rightly said the PPP was a government of friends, families and cronies. Last week Minister Harmon disclosed that a part of the Ministry of the Presidency is now in the office of the former Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, and that the government is paying a monthly rent of $400,000 to the office's owners, the law firm Hughes, Fields and Stoby. AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes is a partner of that firm.

For me, the most alarming move of the coalition is the increase of government ministers' salaries by up to 50 percent, after telling public servants that it inherited a bankrupt treasury. Further, the ministerial increases are retroactive to July 1, only one month and a half after they were appointed. Furthermore, the Guyanese people learned about the pay hike through the news media which in turn got the information from the low-circulation Official Gazette. This contrasts with an APNU+AFC Joint Manifesto promise under the heading 'Good Governance Action Plan' #2 of 13: “Ensure transparency and accountability by granting access to citizens of all aspects of government's transactions and activities.”

As an AFC supporter, Gilbakka cannot swallow the pill that the pay increase will deter corruption. Incorruptible people don't need financial incentives; they live by the principle 'Honor before money'.

I have reasons to believe that the AFC leadership's actions in the government will cost it support and votes and that one day the party will become dead meat indeed. I am calling on card-carrying AFC members to speak up and tell the leaders to take stock of themselves before it's too late. Meanwhile, from now on I am offering the coalition critical support.

Redux....another knucklehead cool aid drinker...

You better lol clown hiding behind a fake alias and claiming to be educated.

Redux....another knucklehead cool aid drinker...

Gilly. I expressed most of the sentiments to Prak last night. Like you, I am not a member buta supporter and will continue to offer the coalition critical support for now. Hope to see you at the dinner tonight.

Gilbakka was a card-carrying PPP financial member/activist from 1969 to 1990 and supporter until the 2011 general election. I could not support the PPP thereafter with a clear conscience, having regard to real manifestations of self-aggrandizement by many central committee members and allegations of corruption in top and middle levels of the PPP/C government.

Since 2012, I have been a supporter of the AFC. Not a card-carrying member. A supporter. To this day I remain an AFC supporter but there are things that worry me and I am speaking out now. The deeds of AFC leaders conflict with their words. Example: Last year AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan said that if the party coalesced with APNU it would become “dead meat.” The AFC is in the coalition now, and that cost the party the bulk of its 2011 Berbice votes which the PPP snapped up.

During the election campaign APNU+AFC promised public servants a 20 percent across-the-board pay increase. The coalition delivered less. APNU+AFC promised rice farmers $9,000 per bag of paddy but hasn't delivered, now pleading that prices are a private matter between millers and farmers. APNU+AFC had rightly said the PPP was a government of friends, families and cronies. Last week Minister Harmon disclosed that a part of the Ministry of the Presidency is now in the office of the former Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, and that the government is paying a monthly rent of $400,000 to the office's owners, the law firm Hughes, Fields and Stoby. AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes is a partner of that firm.

For me, the most alarming move of the coalition is the increase of government ministers' salaries by up to 50 percent, after telling public servants that it inherited a bankrupt treasury. Further, the ministerial increases are retroactive to July 1, only one month and a half after they were appointed. Furthermore, the Guyanese people learned about the pay hike through the news media which in turn got the information from the low-circulation Official Gazette. This contrasts with an APNU+AFC Joint Manifesto promise under the heading 'Good Governance Action Plan' #2 of 13: “Ensure transparency and accountability by granting access to citizens of all aspects of government's transactions and activities.”

As an AFC supporter, Gilbakka cannot swallow the pill that the pay increase will deter corruption. Incorruptible people don't need financial incentives; they live by the principle 'Honor before money'.

I have reasons to believe that the AFC leadership's actions in the government will cost it support and votes and that one day the party will become dead meat indeed. I am calling on card-carrying AFC members to speak up and tell the leaders to take stock of themselves before it's too late. Meanwhile, from now on I am offering the coalition critical support.

i am assuming u meant "ethnically"

if so, please be specific . . . this is a very serious charge

nah.. I was referring to the ethics of proudly displaying the remains of a dead animal on a wall in this day and age. That is why I love Cathy she had to sensitize him.

not sure if this a question of ethics, but point taken

Where are the AFC/PNC anti corruption voices ?

ow budday..it's only four months there will be some hiccups...we had over 15 yrs of Jagdeo's corruption, other than for the odd slap on the wrist where were you????

Listen Gilbakka, you are allowed to screw up once and be forgiven, so get off the PNC mule and get back onto the PPP race horse.  Even baseman erred by voting for Barack Hussain Obama back in 2008.  I have since repented, you do the same!

ow budday..it's only four months there will be some hiccups...we had over 15 yrs of Jagdeo's corruption, other than for the odd slap on the wrist where were you????

AFC/PNC stole from the treasury on board daylight. Busted !