Dear Editor,
As the coalition Government becomes progressively more unpopular, its political stooges like Freddie Kissoon and its principal mouthpiece, the Kaieteur News, are becoming more paranoid, desperate and vulgar in their lies and fabricated outpourings, in attempting to salvage a hopelessly incompetent and grossly corrupt regime.
In recent times, Freddie Kissoon’s rantings have become, discernably, more inane if not more insane, than usual. His recent ramblings about the Berbice Bridge published on September 1, 2017, were drawn to our attention. Again, the inverse racist that he is has come to the fore. He accuses the PPP Administration of racism because of the location of the Berbice Bridge at D’Edward Village and Palmyra. Had this self-proclaimed academic done minimum research on the issue, he would have learnt that the location of the bridge was driven by a feasibility study recommended and financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) done by a French company, Louis Berger. It is this study, which recommended the current location of the bridge as the most feasible in terms of costs. Four other locations were considered, including Everton and New Amsterdam.
The study took into account the cost of the infrastructure to build roads to the Everton location on both sides of the river and the cost of journey time to travel to the bridge at that location on both sides of the river. The issue of congestion caused by the bridge and the cost of acquisition of properties were also factors in the study
We call upon the Government to make this feasibility study public or at least send a copy to Freddie Kissoon for his enlightenment. Hopefully, it may assist in helping him to stop stirring the racial pot, which he so enjoys doing.
In the same article, Kissoon rambles on to spread misinformation about the cost of the Skeldon sugar factory. He parrots Kaieteur News’ fabrication that US0 million was invested when the facts are that less than US0 million was invested in that venture. This investment included the co-generation plant, which only recently Clive Thomas said, provides electricity for 90,000 households.
We also note Kissoon’s wailings on the location of the proposed Demerara Harbour Bridge. Expectedly, he omits to raise the relevant issues and ask the relevant questions. For example: was there any public procurement done in selecting the company, which allegedly did a feasibility study? That no financier has yet expressed any interest in financing this venture and, therefore, where would the money come from to build this bridge? Was the 0 million taken from the Treasury to finance this feasibility study, another grand wastage of taxpayers’ money?
Instead of asking these important questions, all this self-anointed academic is worried about is the traffic chaos.
We predict that as this Government continues its downward spiral, the Freddie Kissoons of this world will become more and more maverick and berserk.
Sincerely,
People’s Progressive
Party
