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February 24, 2013, Kaieteur News, Muse or Amuse…Sold!!!!

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February 24, 2013, Kaieteur News, Muse or Amuse…Sold!!!!

While the drug-runners are set on permanently damaging the name and reputation of Guyana, the officials in public life are set in their ways to damage the last bit of hope that's in the breast of us Guyanese.

The Chinese workers' fiasco will make us bleed with the vanishing hopes of our youngsters. Alexi Ramotar has joined the Chinese train by avidly criticizing Guyanese workers.

It is strange that the son of the President took this stance when his father, the President, is actively approving and awarding contracts to local PPP-biased contractors. The contractors used in the Jagdeo fiber-optic project were all PPP-biased people. The contracts were awarded in secrecy by the same cabinet that has agreed to bring in Chinese for other projects. So is there now a difference between PPP contractors and Chinese? The Chinese are better than even your own people who you have been pampering all these years?

There is more to this than meets the eye. It is not just a matter of working out a large discount with the Chinese. The Chinese Laundromat is in full swing and its bank will soon start spinning the web that the Swiss Banks were spinning during World War II.

Brassington and Jagdeo et al have sold Guyana outright. A couple of years ago they started selling its assets and infrastructure. Now they are selling our sovereignty.

By the time the damage is felt by all of Guyana, these people like Brassington and Jagdeo will be history. They would have saddled this nation with debt, indiscipline, corruption and every conceivable crooked deal in the book – or out of the book.

Huge tracts of the forests have been given out, all of the infrastructural capital works are with Chinese, the minerals are given to the Russians and the rest are owned by the growing empire for which special laws had to be passed to cover illegality.

From the simplest to the most complex, all projects are decided by the PPP alone. The party does not seek any technical help. There is no consultation. The PPP members have effectively muzzled and controlled the private sector and all areas of civil society. The private sector will remain the worst in the world so long as people like Gouveia and Dookhoo remain there. The business sector may never realize how these men sold them out for their personal gains.

While some of these men sat on boards deciding the fate of their fellow businessmen, they themselves won contracts and were given assets to ensure that they were happy. Gouveia and Dookhoo sit on most of the Government boards that have to do with investment, security and governance. They are part of every shady decision that the Government makes and have themselves been compromised in every conceivable way.
The tombstone of the private sector will be etched with the names of these men who stood with the small elite group of the PPP that is bent on their own gains by selling out Guyana.

What is left for the rest of us?

The public sector jobs are for PPP supporters or the old PNC people who remain stuck in a rut. The new bank is Chinese, the roads are PPP contractors, the seawall is PPP, telecommunication is Chinese, Power is Chinese, Security is Chinese, airport is Chinese, and Television is Chinese. ICT is Chinese – all of it GONE! SOLD!!!

What's left except the hope to take the next flight out? But then EzJet version 2 is coming and then the airline is GONE. I am not amused.



March 4, 2013, Guyana Times, Aircraft body roasts KN over article on Gouveia

The Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) has joined the growing condemnation of a Kaieteur News article that made sweeping allegations against leading private sector operatives here.



Captain Gerry Gouveia

The AOAG in a statement said it was deeply concerned and completely dismayed at the anonymous article which appeared in the Kaieteur News on Sunday, February 24, under the headline “Muse or Amuse….Sold!!!”

In the article, Captain Gerry Gouveia was subjected to the most appalling, false, and defamatory accusations which have no basis in truth, the association said. The body added that the article also made a wholly unjustified attack on the businessmen of the private sector and labels the Guyanese private sector the “worst in the world”.

“The Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana takes strong exception to this entirely irresponsible article and is truly surprised that the Kaieteur News has allowed its publication. The AOAG wishes to remind the Kaieteur News that Captain Gouveia has served with distinction as a former army officer with the GDF Air Command. He has served his country unselfishly for many years, often, to our knowledge, putting his life on the line in the interest of Guyana and the Guyanese people.”

The body said Gouveia is a long-standing member of the AOAG, and has continued to play a non-partisan and critical role in representing the association in its relations with the government, on many occasions on matters on which the association has disagreed with the government.

“In his capacity as one of the leading and most informed aviators in Guyana, Captain Gouveia has, without reservation, supported other members of the aviation community at all times over the last 15 years. Besides the service he has given to the AOAG, he has also provided through his airline, RAL [Roraima Airways Limited], the main “med-evacuation” of sick and injured Guyanese from all over our hinterland especially at night,” the association noted.

It added that Gouveia has voluntarily given his professional knowledge and time to serving civil society, including as a previous president of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) for some five years, the Georgetown chamber of commerce for two years, as chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), as a director of the board for Ogle Airport Inc and is currently the chairman of the PSC’s governance and security committee.

“If as a Guyanese newspaper, we persistently try to bring down those among our society that serve our country and its people, then, perhaps, we should consider ourselves the worst newspaper society in the world,” the AOAG said.

No a jot of evidence

Only last week, the PSC had also condemned in the strongest possible manner the KN article. The allegations, the PSC said, are completely devoid of truth and have absolutely no foundation in fact and none are offered to sustain the allegations in the article. “The Private Sector Commission holds the publisher and editorial management of the Kaieteur News and author of the article directly responsible for the publication of this sordid and malicious scandal mongering in a newspaper which claims to be a national newspaper and which demands the right to press freedom,” the PSC said in a statement.

It added that the allegations in the article are made without a scintilla of evidence and attacks the moral character, professional integrity, and good name of the persons named in the article. Much worse, it accuses them of corrupt and criminal behaviour and, by inference, the commission and the entire private sector along with them.

“The disgraceful publication of this rubbish displays the worst form of gutter journalism and completely demeans the profession of journalism in Guyana. It is this kind of publication which, in fact, is calculated to invite the suppression of press freedom and which denigrates everything that a free press is founded on and stands for,” the commission said.

“There are laws of libel and defamation which are supposed to protect citizens from publications which indulge themselves in vicious character assassination of this sort. Unfortunately, however, they move through the courts at such a snail’s pace that retribution and punishment is so long delayed that irresponsible publishers are encouraged all too often to abandon fact for fiction and truth for slander and get away with it.”



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