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Nov 10, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists
(Kaieteur News) – Good morning, Guyana! Today we gat to talk bout dis Belle Vue Pump Station business. Is like a bad soap opera, but is we money dey playing with!
Dem Boys Seh de contract was awarded after de de successful bidder failed nine outta eighteen qualification tests. Nine! If a man fail nine outta eighteen questions on a driver’s licence test, he ain’t getting no licence. But apparently, to build a multi-million-dollar pump station, is just a minor issue.
But wait, it get better! Not only dey get de job, but de price magically went up by $5 million after de bidding done. Is what kinda supermarket this is? “Oh, the price on the shelf is just for show, boss. At the register, we adding a ‘convenience fee’ for we own convenience.”
And den dey collect a cool $129 million advance, and de bond to protect we money expire since last year! Is like lending yuh brand-new car to a stranger who tell yuh he can’t really drive, and then yuh find out he lef de car pon bricks in South and the insurance was for a bicycle.
So here is de multi-million-dollar question: Who gon be held accountable?
Because listen, if a man forget to renew the insurance on a vehicle and de po po gan be held accountable he that vehicle knock down anybody, is immediate accountability! But when it come to hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars vanish into a muddy hole with no bond and no pump station to show for it… is a collective, nationwide shrug.
Dem Boys Seh de only thing getting pumped is we treasury, straight into a bottomless pit. So who gon answer? Or we just gon get another report next year telling we de same thing, while de only thing rising faster than de contract price is de water in Belle Vue?
Talk half. Leff half.
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