…to spite drugs storage
So we finally have action on the “Bondgate” scam. Or do we? We were told in a carefully parsed release that the bond contract for Albouystown that’s still a “work in progress” was “undesirable”. That’s it? This deal which was more crooked than barbed wire (to coin a phrase!! Ah…those were the days!) and all the Cabinet-level investigators can say is “undesirable”. A Minister lied to Parliament thrice before the cock crowed and this is just “undesirable”?
Twenty five million was advanced to purchase the building without explanation and this is just “undesirable”. Larry Singh has no experience in storing drugs – just in running airlines into the ground: Tropical and Guyana Airways – and this is just “undesirable? The warehouse is rented at more than three times the rate the one from which the government was offered – after getting it for free for over a decade – and this is just “undesirable”??
It’s a bloody crime and a crying shame and disgrace is what it is. Someone shoulda been fired. If this was in Japan that someone would’ve literally fallen on his sword. And imagine these fellas were given a massive salary increase right after they became Ministers so that they wouldn’t dip their grubby little paws into the cookie jar! Seems the salary increase only whetted their appetite for more moolah!
So we come to the alleged “action”. Read the fine print, dear readers. All we got were “recommendations”. The lease MIGHT just be shortened. That is, Larry Singh gets to keep the building he bought with the money advanced and also the warehouse for which the government will pay most of the operational expenses. And even if the lease IS shortened …it’s more cock! They know the short attention span of the Guyanese public. Quick now…how much did we spend on the raw-wooden Jubilee Park? Like Freddie Krueger, Larry Singh will be back!!
So there’s the SUGGESTION to build a government-owned bond near the wharf. So someone is still serious about Ruimveldt being too far to store drugs? Too far from where? Georgetown Hospital might be the largest user…but it’s only ONE facility in Guyana! It’ll be more difficult shipping to the rest of Guyana from a bond near the wharf than from Ruimveldt – which is on the Highway to East, South and West.
The tip-off to the warehouse cock is the fact that there’s still no statement as to why the US-funded and built Billion Dollar Diamond Pharma warehouse isn’t being used.
Why isn’t a warehouse in the hand not worth more than several (expensive) ones in the urban bushes? Cock, that’s why!
…to pander for votes
There’s this evidently well-meaning fella from the diaspora – a Mike Persaud. Like most Guyanese from “foreign” who still look back homewards, Mike has THE solution to Guyana’s political problem. Like Christopher of yore, he also made a discovery.
His being that Guyana’s problem was the parties are ethnic. Imagine no one had thought of that before!! But then they say, “out of the mouths of babes, sucklings and drunks….!” Anyhow, a few years ago, his solution to the ethnic conundrum was for the PPP to place an African at its helm and the PNC to place an Indian at its. He actually once went up to Congress Place and tried to convince Robert Corbin to implement his proposal.
After picking himself up from the dust, he whinged about being given a bum’s rush!! He didn’t visit the PPP. His new solution is for the two parties to “pander” to their non-traditional supporters.
That right. As in “give in to the target’s baser instincts”!! The mind boggles!
…but tanking businesses
While the government might be playing cat and mouse with the GPSU, does the business community realise that 10% will now become the new base line when their bargaining comes around?!!
