Signing the contract for the reconstruction of the Linden Highway
Dear Editor
I went on a listening and grounding move at the Yarrowkabra Creek for the signing of the contract for the reconstruction of the Linden Soesdyke Highway road, for US$161Â millions on the 27/8/2024. When the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana saw me in the crowd, he started his target practice to shape his campaign for 2025 election. This was clear that some kind of fear is lingering around his confidence of winning the upcoming elections.
As I listened attentively to the president trying to destroy the image of the Coalition for their action in government 2015 to 2020, I come to realize this is a full campaign taking place with State funds using the contracts as a means to pull the votes of young contractors who are lobbying for jobs. While some of his utterance was truthful of some of the past that had taken place, the measurement of what his government had done in four years and what the Coalition had done in its five years couldn’t stand up to scrutiny when you take into account of the finance received by the Coalition and what was received by the PPP in terms of revenues.
The APNU+AFC had spent around 6,028.94 billion US in its 5 years, the PPP after this year finish will spend about 16,116,604 billion US, which means 10,087,624 billion US more than the Coalition government, totaling 2,017,524,800,000 Guyana dollars all because of the oil revenues.
Editor, the PPP would be able to do far more than the Coalition government had done that is the reality, because the ‘cuss-down-oil contract’ has become a profitable contract that the PPP government would not fight to change although they said they would. I must give him some credit for a good political dance, focusing on me, to send his political messages, lucky me, I am not thin skin or fearful of any one, I stand strong.
As the President called on me, to verify if roads are being built in the area and I said yes, because I am a believer in truthfulness, he gained political energy, but retrogressed and he went into the depth of digging to find faults of the past administration, which gave me the impression that the PPP somehow is afraid of a party that they claim is dead.
I would like to let the President know with all the talks of development, a lot of his projects are faulty and billions are being wasted.
Please note the maintenance cost will be high also, in the village of Yarrowkabra and other villages on the highway. We already seeing the roads are deteriorating, contractors, and engineers need to be held to account for poor works done for hard-earned taxpayers’ dollars.
Sincerely
Michael CarringtonÂ
AFC Vice ChairmanÂ
