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Raised eyebrows about the US$3M equipment
Dear Editor,
I read with grave dismay an article bearing the caption “ B K International spends US $3M on Equipment — Walter Willis “ carried in the Kaieteur News on October 23`6, 2012.
The article focused on the involvement of BK International in the management of the Haags Bosch landfill site and reported the critical observation of BK. International that though the Haags Bosch landfill site was originally intended to receive hazardous waste for disposal, the Project Manager Mr. Walter Willis, is yet to approve a design for the construction of a hazardous waste cell.
If BK’s criticism of Walter Willis alleged sloth is accurate, then that would amount to a serious indictment of Willis’s sense of professional responsibility and of his concern for our environmental safety and the harmful , polluting consequences of improper disposal of hazardous waste with ultimately negative effects on the health of our people.
It falls, therefore, for Willis to say to the people of Guyana that he has indeed approved the design for a hazardous waste cell at the landfill site and that therefore BK’s criticism of him is unjustified. Strangely however, Kaieteur News does not carry a response from Willis on this very important and crucial issue and one is therefore left to assume that Willis made no response.
What the Kaieteur News article did however report was that Willis released photographs of what was described by the newspaper as old and broken down machinery which, according to the report, Willis said “were the US$3 million worth of equipment that B K International procured for work on the landfill site.”
It is true that B K International did publicly declare that it invested approximately US$3 million in equipment for the landfill site. Every school child in Guyana knows that BK International has new and powerful heavy duty equipment being frequently hauled across the roads of Guyana. Both Willis and Kaieteur News are treading on dangerous ground with the article in issue.
B K International has never represented or held out to the public that the seemingly inoperable equipment exhibited in the Kaieteur News article represented its investment of US$3 Million in equipment for the landfill site.
I recall that B K International has sued Walter Willis in the courts alleging false and misleading statements made by him. Unless BK International accepts that the equipment displayed in the photographs in the Kaieteur News report represents its US$3 million equipment investment for the landfill site, Willis’s statements and his release of those photographs may be construed as being calculated to hurt the image and reputation of BK International and it may be said that it was done with what lawyers describe as “malice and ill will “.
Sincerely.
Michael. Sookra.
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