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This administration is the most bare-faced in the Caribbean

Jul 04, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to Dexter Harding’s contribution to your letter column (Kaieteur News, July 1) and agree with him fully.
This Administration has won first prize as the most bare-faced government in the Caribbean, with the award of contracts being its supreme arena.
Whatever the level of the contracts administration: central, ministerial, regional or district, there are corrupt officials who are part of the adjudication process and who act at the behest of certain political bosses.
I would bet and win on the following:
If a forensic audit were done on regional and central tender awards, they will discover:-
1. When public sector organisations request bidders to pre-qualify, those bidders who ultimately pre-qualify are never advised.
Thus, where only pre-qualified bidders would have been considered, the Tender Board still considers non-prequalified bidders.
2. Some bidders do not satisfy all the conditions for bidding (bid deposit, compliances, etc.) but are still considered because ‘big ones’ would call in to instruct that those conditions be overlooked.
3. There are officials who have been dismissed because of dishonesty from their previous employment and are now put to control billions in the regions.
4. Tender boards encourage money laundering. Some bidders bid fantastically low prices for items where the FOB prices are higher that these bidders’ prices. In fact some bidders buy on the local market at a higher price than they offer in tenders.
If this is not washing “dirty money” what is?
5. Doesn’t it appear strange to tender boards when a business can bid to supply from eye pencil to computer ink to thread to file folders to photographic paper and at prices lower than bidders who specialise in some of those items? On this score I submit proof.
Obviously, quality is compromised, the bidder never supplies the full quantity after winning the bid and there is a major conspiracy between bidder and receiving organisation.
Mr. Editor, we see huge buildings going up and businesses sprouting up all over the landscape.
During the economic crisis in the USA, Guyana’s banking system was never threatened. There was an abundance of liquidity.
Why? How? ‘Dutty’ money?
Godfrey Skeete

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