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Jul 22, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Reference is made to several media items on Vice Media’s corruption allegations against Vice President Jagdeo. The evidence is overwhelming from Mr. Su about what is being transpired in getting business done in Guyana and the power of Chinese businesses in our country. Your media house carried many reports, commentaries, and editorials of wrong doings. The government has not conducted any investigations.

Assuming that all the corruption or bribery allegations against the Vice President and the evidence by Vice News are totally wrong and assume that Vice unfairly targeted the VP, and further assuming that the VP is most competent in running the government and that he is the most incorruptible honest politician in the PPP government, how come he has closed his eyes to so many corrupt acts and wrongdoings in the country since August 2020? Also, how come he has not noticed and addressed or stopped abuses of office of Ministers and or underlings and chairs and CEOs of government agencies? Is the VP, who de facto is the most powerful person in the government, helpless and incapable of stopping corruption? Why hasn’t he taken actions or at least launch an investigation against those who are facing allegations of wrongdoings? Why hasn’t the Vice President himself requested an independent investigation on the Vice News allegations against him? Why hasn’t he piloted bills against corrupt acts or set up a statutory body to investigate allegations of corruption?
At least one Minister has been exposed for conflict of interests.

A Minister sent the police to an independent media house to intimidate the editor and reporter. Another allegation was made against a Minister over the exposing of private parts to a young female; nothing was done about it.

Allegations were made against another Minister for accepting bribes. No action taken! There were so many questionable acts: Among them: fishing trawler licences; purchase of fake or poor quality pumps; doling out of flood grants without any accountability in spite of allegations of fraud; awarding contracts to incompetent and inexperienced contractors, payment of huge advancement outside of limits to favoured contractors; falling apart of and large potholes in roads and bridges that were recently constructed; Exxon being compelled to pay taxes in home country (USA) but not in Guyana; questionable allocation of land for private development; Ministerial ties to developers; diplomatic approval of purchase of ‘fake’ pumps, indigenous people being trampled upon by foreign companies operating on reserved lands; water pollution in hinterland areas impacting on lives of indigenous people; EPA not honouring responsibilities and protecting national interests on violations by powerful investors; no professional studies on the impact of oil exploration and drilling on the fishing industry; fishermen receiving inadequate cash grants that cannot sustain their lives; Ministry of Agriculture presenting statistics that claim catch is increasing while fisherfolk are saying catch is down; Exxon keeping fishermen away from certain fish catching and breeding grounds; Exxon warning of more dire consequences of the fishing industry as a result of drilling of new wells; collapse of GuySuCo because of management; Guyana importing sugar to meet domestic needs; experts being forced out of jobs for not assisting with corruption; GAWU being attacked by an ex-AFCite now in the PPP camp; engineers at Ministries being fired or reassigned from jobs for refusing to comply with demands for certain favoured contractors.
With all of the above, after watching the Vice documentary on the VP, are we to conclude that Mr. Jagdeo is not corrupt, has zero tolerance for corruption, is above the fray, and is for the people?

Yours truly,
Edward Burrowes

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