Method4 presented as Canadian company, but was made up mostly of locals – Jagdeo

Aug 09, 2025 News

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…says company lost GPL contract due to insufficient experience

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday sought to clear the air on the contract awarded to Dominican Republic company InterEnergy Group, instead of Method4.

Queries about the legality of the move by the government to award the contract to InterEnergy for consultancy services to upgrade the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) grid have been ongoing in some quarters.

During his press conference on Thursday, Jagdeo told journalists that the government cancelled the Method4 bid because the company did not have the relevant experience to undertake the project. He said InterEnegy has more experience and negotiations are ongoing.

Questioned about the timeline when the technical evaluation was done to determine Method4 Engineering’s capability and on what grounds the contract was awarded to Inter Energy, Jagdeo explained that there was a public process.

“Subsequent to that it was discovered… that’s what we were told that they did not have the required technical capability because apparently it was evaluated as a Canadian company, but there were more local people… from this is all I’m hearing from them. It was more local people who were part of this arrangement… didn’t have a track record, a long track record of doing this sort of work,” Jagdeo explained.

He said it was for these reasons the company was not awarded the contract by the government. He also reminded that in 2024 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the company, followed by several unsolicited bids. He said based on its consistency, the company was recommended to the cabinet.

“So, it was recommended that they should, given their requisite experience, they should supervise the contract, and the rate was I think $650,000 per month. They are currently negotiating with that company. If the negotiations don’t go well, they don’t conclude the contract and no contract has been signed as yet. But on method4 it was discovered…that’s what we heard, that it was discovered that they did not have the requisite experience. So, I see now some in some quarters it said that they were close to us method4. If they were that close to us, the contract would have gone ahead. It didn’t happen,” he stressed.

Jagdeo’s response came days after APNU’s Ganesh Mahipaul demanded that the government come clean with the deal. In a statement to the media last Sunday Mahipaul reminded that on Friday, May 23, 2025, during the 104th Sitting of the 12th Parliament, Prime Minister Phillips addressed the National Assembly on the matter of the $28.7 billion allocation under the line-item Power Generation (Gas-to-Energy Project). The Prime Minister clearly stated that the sum was designated to enhancing the transmission and distribution system and that three contracts were awarded to Power China and Kalpataru for works across Regions 4, 5, and 6.

Mahipaul said Phillips further informed the house that the contracts were signed on April 4, 2025. When questioned by former MP Volda Lawrence regarding the consultancy services for the project, the prime minister responded with unambiguous clarity: “the consultancy contract was awarded to Method4, a Canadian company, to the tune of US$7 million,” Mahipaul recalled.

Mahipaul said Jagdeo is now vigorously defending InterEnergy Group, a completely different entity, as the consultancy firm on the same transmission and distribution project. “This contradiction strikes at the very heart of truth and transparency. So, we ask the question every Guyanese citizen deserves answered: Who is lying? Jagdeo or Phillips?” Mahipaul questioned.

Mahipaul, who is the vice-presidential candidate for the APNU coalition, said this is no minor discrepancy. “This is a blatant exposure of the lies and confusion that plague the PPP/C regime. One government, two top-ranking officials, two completely different stories. Only one can be true, if either is.” Mahipaul said the people of Guyana must not be taken for fools. “This $28.7 billion project is not play money. It is your tax dollars, it is our oil revenues, and it is the future of this country’s energy security. When billions are being spent, and the government can’t even get its story straight, alarm bells must ring. What we are witnessing is not transparency, it is deception in high definition. It is a corrupt, confused, and chaotic regime speaking from both sides of its mouth. Today, the PPP/C stands exposed, not just for its lies, but for its blatant disrespect to the intelligence of the Guyanese people,” Mahipaul stated.

As such, he said the APNU coalition is demanding immediate clarity on the status of the consultancy contract and whether it was it awarded to Method4 or InterEnergy Group, or both.

The coalition is also seeking full disclosure of all consultancy agreements related to the Gas-to-Energy transmission and distribution components. “The PPP/C cannot be allowed to play political football with billions of taxpayers’ dollars while pretending to care about accountability. The only way to end the lies, the contradictions, and the corruption is to vote them out come September 1, 2025. The PPP/C is lying. The question is how many more lies have they told that we haven’t uncovered yet?”

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• Bharrat Jagdeo, Canadian company, GPL, InterEnergy, Method4

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