PICKPOCKETS ON THE LOOSE!

May 10, 2010 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

We are fast approaching the stage where a name change for our country will become necessary. Unless the executive lawlessness that is prevailing in our land is brought to an end, we may find ourselves having to change the name of our country from Guyana to Buyana.

Instead of being called Guyana, we will soon be known as Buyana. Guyana is not just open for investment. It is up for sale. And the most terrifying part is that instead of Guyana receiving payment for the loss of its patrimony, instead of those reaping the benefits having to pay for the costs, it will end up being the ordinary people who have to fetch the tab.

These persons are being facilitated in the sell out and give away of the national patrimony. Deals are being made which amount to chicanery, lawlessness and high-class skullduggery.

Some people are so bent on emptying this country. Before they leave what they have to leave, they are siphoning off the resources of this country for their friends and cronies. Top notch blue, collar pickpockets are on the loose cutting deals that allow them to cream of vast tracts of the wealth of this country.

There is an exodus of skilled persons and an influx of imposters, and carpetbaggers are arriving in Guyana to take part in the looting.

The kleptomania knows no boundaries. Everything which can be stolen is being eyed. Nothing is out of reach, not land, not state property, not mining concessions, not even the future of this country; nothing is beyond the reach of those with sticky fingers.

This is no ordinary thieving that is taking place. The pickpockets are not taking just for themselves. They are stealing so that their great, great grandchildren will never have to lift a finger again. The kitty will be so filled that these descendants will never have to bother with where their yachts and mansions will come from. Their wealth is assured and better yet it will be paid for by the Guyanese people.

Something that should cost $300M will be billed for $500M. The Guyanese people will be told that this is the investment that has been made in their name and for their benefit. They will be further told that the investors want a reasonable rate of return for having invested so much in the future of the nation.

But since actually only $300M was spent instead of $500M, the Guyanese people will have to pay the interest on the higher sum in the form of a rate of return on the investment. Thus one form of pickpocket leads to the people being saddled with a repayment for something that was inflated and overpriced.

It is as if someone built a house for you but that person only spent $100M but told you it costs $500M. You end up losing twice. First you end up having to pay more than what the house is worth and then you have to pay the bank interest on this exorbitant sum.

The schemers have fertile imaginations. Each day some new ploy is concocted to steal from the people.

A contract is given out and then we are told that the work is not being done to satisfaction. So a new contract for the same job now has to be handed to someone else. And all of this is to prepare the way for an investment that is going to benefit somebody’s friend.

A friend is someone in need of a special deed. And so that favour is done so that the friend need not worry for the rest of his or her lifetime. It’s good to have the right friends in the right places.

Prime real estate is allowed to run down, old historic sites are abandoned, and existing properties are being sold off. New buildings are being built to replace old ones which would eventually be sold to friends because they are riverside properties and have huge future worth, confirming that the malfeasance is not just for today but is for well into the future.

By the time this project is finished, the pickpockets would be able to retire as some of the richest persons in the world. And guess what, all of this will have to be repaid by me and you, the small man and our children and grandchildren.

We are going to be saddled with a burden that will endure for generations, except that it will be not our offspring that will enjoy the benefits but rather those who are today filling their pockets and those of their friends.

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