Is Oil Renegotiation on the agenda?

Sep 26, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Government says Payara is going ahead. Does that mean no renegotiation? I like your editorial that nothing stays hidden for too long (Sept. 23). So true as information is coming out on the streets on various deals being cut and by the same people who were in office. The public and the poor in particular is out of the loop as a few make all the more money.
Oil renegotiation for higher rates is nowhere on the agenda of politicians. It seems we are back to square one on corruption just like where it was before. The primary objective of any government is to address the needs of its people but in Guyana it is to lay the foundation ‘for tiefing’. Known criminals are put in charge of certain agencies. If you have honesty, integrity, and competence, you are not needed. ‘Tief man’ being rewarded! Criminal enterprise is being strengthened as politicians look out for each other. Deals are being cut! Land and contracts are being given away. Nothing for the common people!
Corruption with major figures has resumed just like before. A big contractor is back in business after fraternizing with the other side.
It is all a game by politicians to protect each other’s corruption. Political association in which worst of thieves are most sacred. A man who ‘tief’ under two Ministries and the Presidential Secretariat is sacred. He crossed over to the other side after 2015 elections. He was hidden away for five years, and now put in charge in a Ministry to cut deals. Portions of oil blocks were sold but no revenues reverted to the government. Such behaviour makes one even more sacred in the criminal enterprise.
The promised investigation into acquisition of the wharf is shut down. The promised investigation into the Haags Bosch Eccles Land fill site scam is shut down. Some $1 billion went to honchos in one party. With change in government, another billion is going to honchos of another party. And contracts will be given to recover those amounts – more corruption.
No one was convicted under the last administration except small men. Prosecution not a priority now! Those who attempted to thief the election are sacred cows as we are told the matter before the court and government can’t investigate criminal conduct. What nonsense!
The budget legitimizes all the ‘tiefing’ under the previous regime – billion dollars according to reports. Half of the budget looted by the previous regime and yet gets approval. And some 20 billion was looted. Who is protecting the nation’s money?
Are deals cut to let elections criminal matter fall by the way side? Don’t put any high hope on an investigation into the West Berbice murders. Not likely to happen! There will be another cover up as part of the deals among politicians!
Yours truly,
Jag Rajkumar Singh

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