What did Mr President mean by ‘not real money’?

Aug 27, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
One of the most recent events in our Country “The Auditor General’s report of 06″ has raised so many questions.

I am focusing on this because of two things. Firstly, in response to the said report, one of the things the head of the Presidential Secretariat said is that reconciliation of the bank statements (or some of them to be more specific) were not brought up to date because they were post 1992.

I personally see this as irrelevant, reason being that I was a member of the armed forces for eight years, during which time I performed lots of duties as guard commanders and in handing over or taking over, everything is listed and verified by both parties before a signature is applied.

Secondly, the President said, according to a Kaieteur News article, (I am not quoting) that there is so much halloo balloo about the Auditor General’s Report of 2006 as if it was real money.

I don’t know what he meant by this term “real money”, but to my mind this can put so many things in their right perspectives. If it was not real money then probably it was “Monopoly Money”.

1. Dennis Street which was paved in 1997 and again sometime later is a waste as I am writing this letter. Maybe this was not paid for with “Real Money”.

2. The floating wharf in the Pomeroon River, this also maybe was not paid for with “Real Money”

3. The roads in and around where I live were built yesterday and today many of them are no longer roads. I wonder what money paid for them.

4. The street where I live is a concrete pave even though there is enough space to build a road. My guess is that we did not have enough real money to pay for it.I wonder if the President looked at the implications, the ramifications of the words “Real Money”.

The Auditor General’s Report dealt with facts recorded in bank statement. So with that in mind I can’t help but wonder which one of the banks in Guyana does not deal with “Real Money”.
Elder Ewart Small