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This crusade against Brian Tiwari and his companies is quite disgraceful

Feb 09, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – I read with growing disappointment how the PPP/C is using the full weight of its administrative power and media influence to harass a private businessman and citizen of Guyana for his constitutional right to freely associate with a political party.

This crusade against Brian Tiwari and his companies is quite disgraceful and shows how unreformed the PPP/C is from its previous 23 years in office.

1) Note how at every turn they look to denigrate Mr. Tiwari’s reputation in the state owned Guyana Chronicle and other aligned news outlets. Case in point is the seawall work on the Essequibo – BK has been doing seawall defense work for decades to the satisfaction of successive governments, the IDB and the European Union.
2)Note the award, without any competitive bidding, of an 11,000-acre quarry in the Mazaruni which could serve to squeeze out Mr. Tiwari’s own quarry operations. In the interim, before this is being set up, the government is actually importing aggregate from Suriname at a higher price. So much for creating jobs for Guyanese.
3)Most egregious is the invitation to a large Trinidad construction company to set up operations in the country so as to fill the void left by what is now a blacklisted company. This firm, which has a mixed reputation in Trinidad, has already shipped in millions of dollars in equipment to its Providence offices.

Was it not Minister Deodat Indar as then President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry who in 2018, when he heard about the investment MOU signed with Trinidad, warned hysterically: “It could mean the end of the private sector.” He was a true patriot then – now his silence is hypocritically pungent.

Attorney General Nandlall’s latest move to try and seize BK’s Kingston wharf will be tied up in court for years with no resolution but it will serve the purpose of freezing any investment for the facility. Mr. Tiwari would be well advised to seek the finest legal counsel, based on his right under the constitution for free expression and association and to ask for relief from state persecution.

Yours truly,
Francis Newton

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