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Dear Editor,
Mr. Hydar Ally seems to have cast aside the old adage ‘physician, heal thyself’ in his castigation of the Coalition government. 
In a letter published by Kaieteur News (Feb 01, 2019) the PPP stalwart highlights key areas where corruption is most likely and indicates ‘money has the potential to corrupt and with the influx of oil monies, the potential for corrupt transactions is likely to be greatly enhanced’.
He is quite right. I hold no brief for any Party and anyone who steals public funds; they should be thrown in jail. However, Mr. Ally’s understanding of corruption seems (deliberately) limited at the present government.
1. How else can one explain the 2008 decision, by the Jagdeo led government to build the Marriott Hotel without the involvement of the National Assembly?
2. Why did the construction continue when the Opposition (now the present gov’t) decided to cease funding in 2012?
3. Was any audit done for the Billion G$20 expended?
4. Who authorized NICIL to shunt huge sums from the Consolidated Fund into this highly secretive project?
5. Why was no Guyanese, not even a laborer, employed during this project?
6. Can Mr. Ally explain the only two board members, Mike Brassington and Marcia Nadir-Sharma, who sat for six consecutive years on the Board!
7. Then the issue of the Fiber Optic cable to provide broadband internet service to Georgetown where US$80 million was spent with no results. The head of the project was none other than the son of former President Donald Ramoutar.
8. Why was the Berbice Bridge built with coerced funds from several local banks resulting in the destruction of a banker’s career?
9. Above all else; explain the huge wealth acquired by PPP ministers including Jagdeo and the PPP presidential candidate.
‘Corruption is a cancer that must be eradicated if the country and its people are to optimally benefit from the resources that we are so richly blessed with.’ Guyana continues to score low on corruption on the Transparency index, which is not a positive indicator for those interested in doing business in the country.
This is nothing new: Guyana had similar poor ratings under the Jagdeo/Ramotar government.
Leyland Chitlall Roopnaraine
New York
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