Pres. Ali must ‘get serious’

Apr 27, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Pres Ali must “get serious.” National sage, Mr. Chris Ram said so in a widely watched public forum. Here are his exact words against the backdrop of the topsy-turvy US$2 billion (and marching upwards) Wales Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project. “They clearly didn’t have one (due diligence). We understand that they adopted something from maybe the previous government…the President has surely got to take responsibility for this and at some point, he must get serious.” Clearly, age has finally caught up with Mr. Ram. Absorb my reasons.

First, those who continue to call the US$2 billion Wales GTE a project must have lost their marbles. The Wales GTE ceased to be a project years ago. It’s a full-fledged PPP Govt plot. A perverse plot that scams and skins alive Guyanese worse than bloodthirsty predators ever could. Foreigners are secondary. They have their roles: arrangers, co-conspirators (fronts doubling as collectors). These assertions should pierce Guyanese taxpayers, as they pay in some way for this Wales free-for-all. Want a few millions more? Wales is the place to be. Is that a project, or a rip-off, with some great Guyanese luminaries up to their necks in the financial bacchanals?

Second, I align with Mr. Ram when he said, “They clearly didn’t have one (due diligence)” program or exercise. If they had half of a credible due diligence plan for the Wales GTE, then even a half-blind, three-quarter deaf, and wholesale imbecile still would have been stumbled over the gaps, weaknesses, loopholes, and crisis points. The PPP Govt didn’t have one. So, what conclusions can be derived? Has to be what the PPP brain trust describes as due diligence was nothing but a crossdresser masquerading as a male fashion plate. Presented differently, an absolute farce. A well-practiced con game. The hard truth is that the US$2 billion (to approach US$3 billion [remember I said so before] had nothing by way of credible reviews and honest reporting. Thus, Guyanese got the usual: a crankshaft across the belly. And warm political smiles to seal the deal. In America, it’s said that a sucker is born every minute. In Guyana, I encounter a million of them all at once.

Third, I must go up the road for Mr. Ram, another Guyanese brother. Not with him, but against him; only choice. I repeat his words: “the president has surely got to take responsibility for this and at some point, he must get serious.” I search my memory, I labor heavily with the record, and still emerge mostly empty with Excellency Ali. “He must get serious”, sez Chartered Accountant Ram. He himself should first get serious. I harboured such expectations of Pres. Ali, only for him to crush those into dust. He promised “transparency and accountability”, didn’t he? And where are those today in PPP Guyana? In the toilet. The Wales GTE is Exhibit One. Pres. Ali tried being serious again in his September 2025, inaugural address. His newest snake charming lyrics were: begone peddlers of ‘misinformation and disinformation; yet Guyana is awash with those eight months later. It is either that no one takes the president seriously, or he experiences extreme difficulties being serious. Perhaps, being serious is a joke to him, may takeaway precious time from his wardrobe visions, preparations, and productions.

Guyanese have had the joys of savouring the dress of the flatlands of the Sahara. I pray that the president doesn’t get ideas when next in England to visit Scotland. From keffiyeh to kilt could be the next costume spectacular. Meanwhile, I focus on the Wales GTE; how Guyanese are getting scalped US$2 billion (and change). It is nothing. Must be inflation. A perversion, and Ram calls on Ali to “get serious.” Am I the only sane citizen around? Pres. Ali shrugged and smirked for six year at citizens saying be serious. Maybe the spiritual will overtake him soon. May God save Guyana, the president. Me, too.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper

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