The mysteries of the Haags Bosch financial settlement

May 10, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I went picking at the Haags Bosch dump site a few days ago in search of a wheel barrow’s wheel. I was advised that I could possibly get one there. Much to my astonishment a few days later I saw the article in the papers about BK calling for 14 million more after receiving a settlement of 1.177 million a year ago. Judging from the vegetation I can picture what it looked like before BK’s influence. As it is now, a fifteen feet mound about five acres in size alternately overlaid by garbage and soil and compressed by the tracks of a huge bulldozer.
Judging from the timeline that mound could have been at ten feet when Puran Bros took over. I cannot comprehend 1.177 million dollars being offered to dig a trench around five acres of land and push up garbage on it that would have been brought there by vehicles not belonging to BK. I see no great engineering feat using concrete, steel, glass, zinc or wood used there. Whatever was done there could have been done by an excavator and a bulldozer. What is there to develop on a dump site?
I wonder if anyone from the coalition went to inspect the site before they decide to settle out of court for such a large sum or was the decision based on a compromise on what BK had threatened to sue for without any estimation of what was on site.
Anyway the coalition fell at the feet of BK when the case would have been resolved in court; any judgement in favour of BK would have had to be paid from their pockets. Or was there something more sinister.
BK’s call for more money now could have been because he was offered too much for the deal. I can’t understand why the minister is making reference to a “vulture”. Having eaten 1.177 million a year ago, much to the dismay and cry of John Public, he is now crying for a mere 14 million – not even one percent. Could he be rattling his sabre for something else? Probably- pay me out and let me shut my mouth!
One must consider that the previous government had terminated BK’s contract because of “missed deadlines and other breaches. How does that get into contracts? Why didn’t the coalition let the matter go to court? Lo and behold! Immediately after the settlement a minister of government went to China and guess who he met while there?
Strange bedfellows! The Haags Bosch financial settlement is just another classic example of how the taxpayers of this country are being shafted by the government who continues to demand more of them by unorthodox methods – e.g. vat on private education.
Rudolph Singh

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