July 09, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
American Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch, addressed the annual meeting of the Private Sector Commission with some candid words about some of the negative features of this land. She zeroed in on blackouts, corruption, bureaucratic slowness. All that the diplomat said were echoed before by dozens of her predecessors. Some of whom have probably gone to the great beyond and some of them are probably in very advanced age in the US.
But their reflections never changed a thing in Guyana. The decades come and go, the diplomats come and go, and Guyana remains the same – a tragic wasteland where time recedes back into the original black holes. The Ambassador pointed out that in the World Bank report for 2018, Guyana’s position on the ease of doing business here dropped from 126 in 2017 to 143 in 2018. Here is graphic, pellucid proof that the nation of Guyana receded in time and there is no optimism left to cling on to. Continue reading →
CLUTCHING AT STRAWS – by Ralph Ramkarran
CLUTCHING AT STRAWS
Ralph Ramkarran
Posted on November 28, 2015 – by Ralph Ramkarran – ConversationTree Blog
The announcement by Government that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Fedders Lloyd, a reputable Indian company, relating to the Specialty Hospital project, has attracted several negative comments. During the life of the last government, the then Opposition consisting of both the AFC and APNU had refused to support the Specialty Hospital.
The AFC’s opposition was founded on the suspect award of the contract to Surendra Engineering, a spare parts supplier, rather than Fedders Lloyd, which had a track record in the construction of such facilities and had made the lowest bid. APNU argued that Guyana needed improved primary care centres, rather than a specialized facility. One high official suggested that ‘Indians’ were ‘taking over.’ Chinese and Brazilian immigrants, who should be applauded for their valuable contributions to Guyana, were spared. Continue reading →
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