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Guyana again attracts dismal corruption rating

Nov 18, 2009 News

Transparency International in its 2009 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) has again given Guyana a dismal evaluation this time rating Guyana as 126 out of 180 countries surveyed.
Among some of the other countries that rank close to Guyana are Vietnam, Syria, Tanzania, Lebanon and Mongolia among others.
Guyana also ranked last among CARICOM countries with the Jamaica ranking 99 out of the 180 countries surveyed.
The rank shows how one country compares to others included in the index.
The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public-sector corruption in a country/territory.
Opposition politicians have time and time again sought to argue that there is a high level of corruption in Guyana.
Guyana Action Party Member of Parliament Everall Franklin had recently stated that, “the nation is insulted constantly by the sheer outrageousness of corrupt practices being perpetrated against us, the people of this country” adding that the recent exposure of a few contracts, which left many people shaking their heads in bewilderment, is but a small portion of the uncontrolled mismanagement meted out to the Guyanese population.
He added also that “This is how the people’s wealth is being squandered…If we continue to bury our heads in the muck which is now evident, we leave exposed the most vulnerable parts of our anatomy for further violation and abuse…This cannot be allowed to continue, we all have to raise our voices in condemnation with the aim to stop this rape of our resources.”
When asked if the elected leaders were not scrutinizing the expenditure of taxpayer money, the politician insisted in the affirmative, but pointed out that the opposition and media could expose these glaring anomalies, but it is ultimately up to the Government to curb the practice.
Veteran Trade Unionist Lincoln Lewis also recently lashed out at the Government, saying that the administration was acting like vultures picking at the flesh of a dying nation, citing what he sees as the wanton abuse of the nation’s finances as a point of reference.
Lewis said there is no country that is going to create wealth if its leaders “exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or if police can be bought off by drug traffickers.”
He said too that no business would want to invest in a place where there is widespread corruption.
“No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery.”

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