Posted March 23rd. 2003 - By Charles L. Griffith, P.E., DCFS

TCEP is an efficient source of energy that, when utilized as designed, will propel a well conceptualized National Development Strategy for Guyana to achieve that predetermined level of National Security, which includes prosperity over time. Previous articles have described how such a high level of National Security could be achieved. This article addresses some internal functioning of the existing DICTATORIAL Government of Guyana and identifies some facets of discrimination and corruption in Guyana. Considerations are also confined to the relationship between International Funding Agencies and the Government of Guyana, in addition to how TCEP may combat corruption in Guyana. Leadership used in this presentation refers to the PPP/C leadership.

ATTRIBUTES OF THE DICTATORIAL AND REPRESSIVE REGIME IN GUYANA

Dictatorial regimes are either authoritarian/oligarchic or founded on Communistic principles which, if carefully designed, engage in repressive practices whilst hiding behind the veneer of free market system, as in the case of Guyana. The regime that is elected by race-based politics in a multiracial society is truly undemocratic, even if it superficially adopts, for maximum convenience, a free market system for quasi economic development. Its philosophical creation or origination is based upon Communistic doctrines hence the regime will still remain a Communist regime, given the fact that the old stalwarts of the existing political leadership of the regime still exists as Communist. Such regimes are very translucent since the Government operations reflect the philosophical views and practices of the party senior leadership, who are ingrained communists. The PPP/C still has a significant cadre of Communist hardliners within its leadership. The leadership may attempt to describe the political system as socialism, but it is the same ideology admired and revered culture embroidered with gold and linked to diamond based economic and social activities for the average citizen, and such philosophy is referenced to those practices in Cuba.

As an example the late Communist founder leader of the PPP/C, Dr. Cheddie Jagan, attested "Only socialism with a planned economy can bring an end to unemployment, underemployment, hunger and insecurity; only socialism with its moral and ethical principles and values can bring an end to exploitation of man, national chauvinism, racial and political discrimination. Only under socialism can national unity and rich culture representing all ethnic groups be developed. In one Caribbean country, this is becoming a reality. Socialist Cuba points the way to racial harmony, a rich culture and economic and social well-being …"

The leadership has never publicly castigated communism and the other practiced doctrine termed APANJHAT in the local and International media. The leadership of the PPP/C has never engaged in a formal, well designed and highly publicized educational program to detoxify its membership from the Communist and ingrained APANJHAT doctrines. If the program existed where is the curriculum, who administered it, who were the instructors, who were the guidance and counseling officers, where was such instruction conducted? Have the effects of the instructions, measured ever time and results recorded, been analysed so that if modifications were needed they were implemented with successful or unsuccessful results to provide for racial healing and prosperity? Can the PPP/C honestly advise the International Community that over time, it has demonstrated through conduct before and after coming to Power on race based politics, such philosophical underpinnings ( Communist and ingrained APANJHAT doctrines) no longer exist in the rank and file of the Party?

It is extremely difficult not to conclude that a Party that was Communist yesterday, and if the consciousness of its followers have not received neurological cell implants for designed change in ideology from Communism to what they term Imperialist behaviors, it would be extremely difficult for the Party to seriously manifest capitalist ideological policies overnight, if is not for CONVENIENCE, as well as a survival alliance building tactic for maximum utility. The leadership has always looked at the USA as an Imperialist Satan. Now since the demise of the USSR (the PPP/C's power base), the Communist public rhetoric has stopped and new cloaks purchased on a deceit credit line, with constant down payments of expositions of Free Market System (FMS) with corresponding published National Development Program written in FMS style with a hope of satisfying local and International Imperialistic appetites.

The leadership came clean prior to the destruction of the USSR, but it does not COME CLEAN now, since they realize if they manifest such a simple and honest behavior it would be a recipe for FAILURE with disastrous consequences. So what is the next obvious approach? IT IS DECEPTION. This deception is pellucid, since the leadership has built an iceberg with FREE MARKET SYSTEM (FMS), with the appropriate prescribed rhetoric floating above the water and Communism hidden below and floating in very turbid waters. Please note the volume of the FMS on the visible portion is about one tenth of Communist repressive structural practices. One should not be amazed that the foundation of FMS is built upon a Communist infrastructure component of this floating iceberg which, in the near future, will loose its internal structure (melt) as it is energized by the higher temperatures of the disclosure currents of its repressive structures, international sanctions from CARICOM, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), Inter American Development Bank (IADB), USAID, EUROPEAN UNION (EU), CARIBBEAN BANKS and other International Financial Agencies (IFAs) as well as the untiring political will of those Guyanese of similar mindset for inclusive governance.

The leadership has within its operations a party secretariat and various commissions which espouse that there is freedom of the press and free speech, but which seizes EVERY opportunity to sue anyone or any communication institution which identifies, then make public the truth pertaining to any obnoxious or unpalatable activity in which the Government may be involved. This is a subversive and repressive Communist thinking and practice of MAXIMUM HARASSMENT to silence the Critic. However, the leadership gives itself the freedom to broadcast in print, half truths to the almost infinite power and with a certain hope it would reach the International Community. Some of these and other anomalies including the flawed Government of Guyana's Doctrine of BUILDING TRUST were addressed in a previous article published on this website on 03/06/03.

I can recall the leadership rejecting a low interest-rate loan from the IADB in the early 1990's because it was an arrangement involving the Government of Guyana and Private Sector initiatives considering electrical power generation. It was the PNC's administration that negotiated the loan on very sound economic and financial perceptions for the Nation's development interest. The leadership's rational for the rejection was the fact that there was Private Sector involvement which clearly was an anti Communist thinking. It is very SAD the PPP/C Government displayed an apparent serious lack of understanding of the modalities and long term economic perceptual benefits of the loan to Guyanese consumers.

The leadership responds to collective bargaining, but most times only if coerced by strike pressures and also seizes every opportunity to be unjust and inhumane with inflexible cooperation. It always chooses the adversarial route not only to exacerbate tensions but to always negotiate at a sloth's pace and provide the minimum remunerative schemes so that the International Labor Organization (ILO) cannot accuse it of not negotiating. Such an approach has DISCRIMINATORY psychological consequences that will be addressed later in this presentation. In keeping with the theme of having the repressive stick hoisted overhead at all cost, and with the primary intent to induce infectious FEAR and other insecurities in the public lives of the workers, it does the absolutely minimum to satisfy hard fought for requirements, and has NEVER acted with any sense of moral decency towards the workers whose taxes are supporting their existence. Such leadership seems dictatorial since it takes the path which is overlaid with a compelling spectacle of maximum repression.

But the inhabitants/occupants of the leadership house have not changed, since serious attempts with convenience as the motive, are conducted to secure new alliances with the lending and donor institutions of the Great Imperialist Hornet Demon for economic gains, hence the very aggressive campaign of "BUILDING TRUST FOR POLITICAL COOPERATION." As mentioned before, the friends of the leadership (USSR) died and therefore it has no other place to turn, but to WB, IM, IADB, USAID, and other IFAs etc. for financial assistance for infrastructural expansion and fiscal activities. Apart from the late Comrade leader's wife (Communist) who is alive in the PPP/C, the next in line is Mr. Reepu Daman Persaud (Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and a devout Communist). Logic would dictate that he should have been President of Guyana. Instead, it is perceived that because of his baggage as a devout Communist, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo, with very PALTRY managerial experience, and again for the expedience of the PPP/C with the iceberg mentality described in the above, is now the President of Guyana with all its complexities.

The leadership with Communist mentality controls the instruments of Party governance by controlling all legislative activities in the Guyana. With regards to the constitution and Government legislative activities, a separate Ministry was created by the leadership with a Communist to the BONE as Minister, to ensure that all laws which are dictatorial in nature and role serve the purpose of the regime's existence and/or interest will receive maximum attention for effectiveness and very little frictional containment. Further, due care is exercised by the leadership to engage in Communist or repressive practices so they are done efficiently under the support of the outdated constitution.

DISCRIMINATION

The leadership intentionally creates the environment for adversarial political engagement to ensure that all decisions to be approved can only be realized when it is in the best interest of the Communist agenda and the race which they support. This is a survival socialistic tactic and may be viewed by the leadership as the moral and ethical features of a religious value system to enhance the standard of living of PPP/C constituents who are mainly Indo Guyanese. Simultaneously, other groups do not feel that they are a part of the productive experience and are therefore not committed to providing 100% of work contribution since their creativity, which impinges upon their self worth and motivation, is trampled. In their own minds they see no hope on the current horizon for growth, and no doubt will finally realized this is an extreme form of DISCRIMINATION in the work place. This is an obvious serious thoughtless political blunder on behalf of the PPP/C's Government of Guyana to not recognize that the workers are demoralized, and it is likely there would be a loss of a significant productive base of the society workforce, that may be atrophic.

Workers with such states of mind do not only function in a realization of a reduction, but also in an area where they are actually prevented from utilizing their full capacities to perform and thereby gaining the competence to achieve the next aspired level while, at the same time, contributing to the vitality of the country. Learning new skills on the job is stifled and productive quality opportunities with concomitant value contribution with the hope of equitable wage increases seemed like a recent and most times distant dream. Call it what you may it is DISCRIMINATION, but once the MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY is dismantled and TCEP is implemented, such hopelessness would disappear in a relatively short period providing that permanent psychological damage has not occurred, as each individual would be able to contribute and enjoy the prosperity desired.

CORRUPTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL FUNDING AGENCIES

The Leadership has arrogantly articulated on several occasions, that the existing Constitution of Guyana is the most inclusive in the Caribbean and in the World. This is Public Relations rhetoric. What the leadership has failed to realize is that those steps taken to improve the Constitution of Guyana are only cosmetic and do not approach the root of the problem, which is the MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY. The leadership can list to the nth dimension, the changes made to the constitution of Guyana, but, by so doing is broadcasting to the International Community that it has all intention of mustering whatever resources and logistics a Communist dictatorship may possess, to strategically out maneuver any attempt to pass a law outlawing the MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY.

It is extremely difficult to perceive that the leadership is not aware of Transparency International's (TI) principles of good governance to promote high quality economic growth. According to Mr. Michel Camdessus who is the Managing Director of the IMF at TI, the IMF adopted a Declaration on Partnership for Sustainable Growth in September of 1996 in order to receive funding from the WB, IMF and others which are assumed to be IFAs. Those specific areas of concerns are in the rule of law, efficiency and accountability of the public sector, bankruptcy without Government interference, contracting, government direct lending, procurement, restrictive and non reciprocity practices, corruption and transparency. The specific areas affected by corruption are importation and custom frauds, misuse of foreign exchange, very large acreages of land distribution to the privileged supporters for excessive private gains, and fractures or bending of tendering mandates. Inadequate disclosures, absence of proper regulations for consumers, standards/licenses and supervision constitute those areas associated with transparency.

The above attributes, once tied to the funding criteria, must also be supported by elevated and unstoppable pressure from the civic society as a whole. A question that comes into focus is has the IMF conducted any recent research in Guyana to determine if the financial sector in Guyana is functioning prudently with respect to Central Bank, deposit taking institutions, trained staffing for oversight, accurate financial data reporting and financial risk management operatives to protect current and potential investors? If this has not been conducted most recently, then it should conduct such an investigation immediately.

Most investors in developed countries have also shied away from investing in underdeveloped countries primarily because of excessive commerce tariffs, State monopolies in certain sectors, restrictive economies, poor governance and lack of free trade policies. With respect to Guyana, only the obsolete and extremely repressive governance system as currently guarded by the PPP/C needs to be severely adjusted by DISMANTLING THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY, and replacing it with modalities of TCEP, to attract the volume of direct investment relative to the natural resource base of Guyana.

It is understood that based upon the recent visit of the India Foreign Minister to Guyana in January 2003, he publicly advocated further reinforcing ties between India and Government of Guyana. But according to TI Corruption Perception Index of 09/28/02, India which is an extremely religious State, ranked an astonishingly 71 among the most CORRUPT States in the World, with scores ranging from 2.4 to 3.6 out of a maximum of 10 for 12 separate randomized surveys. Based upon this data set be your own judge with respect to the religions practiced in India and CORRUPTION.

According to TI 2003 CORRUPTION REPORT. "In the City of Bangalore, southern India, an independent survey of the quality of maternity health services for urban poor conducted by the NGO Public Affairs Center revealed that the poor pay huge amounts of extraordinary money in their interactions with public maternity hospitals. The average patient in the maternity ward run by the City Corporation pays 1,089 rupees (approximately US$22) in bribes to receive adequate medical care. A further 61% of respondents were forced to pay for medicines, though public policy clearly mandates that they be given free of charge".You may draw further conclusions with respect to CORRUPTION in India.

Question. Did this CORRUPTION phenomena crossed the Atlantic to Guyana during indentured laborers implementation in Guyana? Of the 102 Countries surveyed, no data on CORRUPTION perception was presented on Guyana. Why? But the reinforcing ties have begun by visits of highly publicized senior Government/State Officials in February, 2003 to India. It is not known if CORRUPTION reinforcing tactics were observed on that mission for appropriate application in Guyana. Irrespective of tribal association, the Government of Guyana may need to reevaluate its relationship with India, given India's CORRUPTION base, if it is to attract huge investments from the once PPP labeled and VILIFIED IMPERIALIST USA. My experience pertaining to the interaction with entrepreneurs on a daily basis suggests that normally prudent established businessmen are concerned about negative perceptions of any form, prior to final investment decisions, given the nature of the current International politics.

As recent as 03/13/03, the OAS Committee of Experts met in Washington, DC and .."heard from TI and other civil society organizations as part of its peer review process for evaluating government compliance with the Inter-American Convention against Corruption." Did Guyana's Ambassador to the OAS attend this meeting and, if so, did he make a presentation on the status of CORRUPTION in Guyana?. Can John Public review that report if it exists?

Just for the record TI also published on 03/13/03, "The Inter-American Convention against Corruption sets out a road map for a comprehensive attack on corruption. Parties commit to criminalize a wide range of corrupt acts; step up enforcement; enhance legal and judicial cooperation; and strengthen preventive measures, such as codes of conduct for public officials, disclosure of assets, and whistle blower protection. Transparency International national chapters across the Americas have supported a regional anti-corruption effort since the 1994 Summit of the Americas. They view the Convention as an important plan for reform and have supported the OAS efforts to promote implementation and enforcement".

The PPP/C Government persistently reminds his followers and the International Community that the Governments of the USA and England CONNIVED to dethrone the PPP Communist Regime in the 1960's and today the intrinsic message from the PPP/C Government of Guyana seemed to suggest/imply that both the Governments of the USA and England made a mistake in removing the only Communist regime in South America. This is high stakes Public Relations that has more than Communist flare on behalf of the PPP/C Government of Guyana.

It is perceived that the PPP/C Government may have calculated that the Governments of the USA and England may (a) not over time appreciate this negative publicity, so in order to persuade an halt to this inappropriate publication, the Governments of Imperialist USA and England may be forced to provide PPP/C Government of Guyana constant foreign assistance, through loans, grants, debt relief, special trading status and technical relief, (b) adopt an hands off approach with respect to Guyana's political crises so that it may not be viewed that the USA and England are once more attempting to remove the democratically (racially) elected Government from power.

Another perception is that the PPP/C Government of Guyana may even have calculated that it should be recompensed by the PPP/C labeled Imperialist USA and England, but is stopping short of overtly pursuing that advocacy but is ensuring that the seeds are planted on some foreign terrain. In other words the Imperialist Countries (USA, England etc) owes this Communist regime COMPENSATION. For this reason I am really curious why the State Department of the USA, based upon its efficient data collection methodologies, has not made any recent public comments with respect to the repressive governance matters in Guyana, given the Country's tremendous natural resource base and geography, and USAID yearly financial allocation to foster the expansion of Good Democratic Governance Systems around the world, and especially in this hemisphere.

Yet still another question that comes into focus is, has TI ever conducted any survey in Guyana considering Guyana's natural resources in Energy (water and petroleum) minerals, arable land and geography; the PPP/C Government of Guyana's economic resources in International Aid, paltry direct and portfolio investments, domestic savings and taxes; Government of Guyana's inefficiencies relative to the lack of innovations, mismanagement and non performance all across the distortion of its yearly financial data, coupled with policies to benefit the PPP/C's followers and direct induced suffering for non followers (PSU workers, teachers and others of similar mindset)?

Was specific attention given to what may be termed WHITE ELEPHANT projects such as roads, sea-defence, schools and other high profile externally funded projects? Finally if such a survey was conducted did TI incorporated TI relevant factors such as Capital Formation Index, GDP, Gender Development Index, Human Development Index, Human Poverty and Deprivation Index, Life Expectancy, Rule of Law to ascertain the level of CORRUPTION that exist in Guyana? If this has not been conducted most recently, then it should conduct such an investigation immediately.

But, it is also my understanding that before TI could embark on any investigation in any country, it needs to set up an office in the specific country in which the investigation is conducted. It is recalled that the PPP/C Government of Guyana uses every opportunity to remind its followers and the International Community that it is the democratically elected Government of Guyana. The PPP/C should also use this opportunity and function under any OAS agreement between TI and OAS, and speedily encourage the race neutral and reputable International organization as TI to conduct the type of investigation described in the above. The results of such an investigation may determine whether Guyana may be allowed to join the fraternity of democratically elected Governments who provide the International Community, including the IFAs, reliable data on annual CORRUPTION PERCEPION INDICIES.

It would be extremely difficult for the Government of Guyana to hide from this level of scrutiny from TI and ultimately the IFAs, since historical data sets already exist in the Public Domain. Given the level of current unrest that exist in Guyana, the IFAs should withhold the servicing of durable security initiatives such as all existing grants and loans, as well as new funding to the Government of Guyana, pending an IMF, WB, USAID, EU and TI study pertaining to the level of CORRUPTION in the country, in addition to the display of good governance by DISMANTLING THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY with TCEP.

A previous published article on this website on 03/06/03, linked the PPP/C Government of Guyana Doctrine of "BUILDING TRUST TO ACHIEVE GENUINE POLITICAL COOPERATION" to CARICOM, with a result recommending CARICOM, if it has the powers, to levy Economic and Trade sanctions on the PPP/C Government of Guyana. As regards the Commonwealth Secretary General, another recommendation was also made that this body concentrate its efforts on DISMANTLING THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY with TCEP, rather than expending its resources on the perceived misguided BROKERAGE for the implementation of Parliamentary Procedures and Functional Sectorial Committees. At this juncture, and in keeping with the objective that once IFAs continue to support the PPP/C regime led Government, it would be contributing immensely to the FLAW laden Doctrine of "BUILDING TRUST TO ACHIEVE GENUINE POLITICAL COOPERATION", along with fueling the willful stagnation of the people of Guyana.

The half truths, serious NEGATIVE motives with local and International implications associated with this Doctrine in the general spirit of SABOTAGING any new, innovative, novel and inclusive governance system for Guyana, have also been previously discussed in that very article. As a reminder, the Doctrine of BUILDING TRUST as proposed by the PPP/C Government of Guyana is designed as a very aggressive Public Relations ploy to pretend that it is concerned about inclusive Governance, but has no intention of identifying the nucleus of the myriads of problems, then completely removing that structure by DISMANTLING THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY in a multiracial country as Guyana.

Any attempt to modify the Constitution of Guyana for inclusive Governance, without DISMANTLING THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY is COSMETIC. If the IMF, WB, EU, USAID and TI fail to engage in such an exercise related to CORRUPTION as described in the above, then they are clearly enjoying slumber on the King size bed already occupied by the intimate hands and feet of the PPP/C, and therefore are not following the adoption of the Declaration on the Partnership for Sustainable Growth in September of 1996, which clearly set out the modalities of which serious IFAs should follow during loan or grant funding considerations. An extension to IFAs not SANCTIONING Guyana in the areas of loans, grants, debt service relief and technical assistance is essentially advising the International Community that they support the status quo of the Government of Guyana governance system, including its DICTATORIAL and repressive behaviors, along with a well designed infrastructure to support such behaviors, and therefore, has no interest in Guyana adopting an inclusive governance system which completely eradicates THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY with TCEP.

Other enabling messages the IFAs are conveying to Guyanese and to the International Community are that they (IFAs) are intentionally SABOTAGING the birth and effective development of inclusive Governance System for Guyana through the application of TCEP, and therefore encourages the hemorrhaging of Guyana's precious metals (gold and diamonds) Natural Resources, and under the superficial Free For All Enterprise System as adopted by the PPP/C Government of Guyana; the continued support for a paralysis of genuine Development of other Natural Resources of Guyana by major private investment syndicates; the undermining of the collective will of a diverse racial group of the Guyanese population; and they have no intention of providing substantive and unambiguous assistance or approach to DISMANTLING THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY with TCEP.

Additionally, at this juncture, it may be perceived that the dormancy of the continued silence of the IFAs as regards to good inclusive Governance of Guyana, no doubt, can have serious long term earthquake tremblings, with deleterious consequences on the geographic existence of Guyana. No action approach on behalf of IFAs would intentionally threaten the ability of all Guyanese to contribute to the development of specifically designed programs with TCEP mandates, in tandem with the GLOBALIZATION thrusts. These institutions within the IFA's grouping should critically evaluate the economic, and governance crises/climate in Guyana and cease providing food to the perception that the PPP/C Government of Guyana is being COMPENSATED for some alleged previous wrong.

The IFAs normally adopt different strategies to ascertain information on different countries to make final decisions on funding, but according to TI's Jeremy Pope, he advocated a strange circumstance which enters the equation for funding from IFA, as highlighted as "donors have too often appeared to shore up secretive regimes with loans and assistance, the details of which are kept from the citizens they are ostensibly intended to help".

If perchance this is the case for all loans and assistance considerations for Guyana, then donors should refrain from such a despicable practice and confine their decisions upon prudent business criteria, moral judgment and the population to which such resources are directed. For this reason TCEP will ensure that all loan packages to the IFAs, including the preliminary design for all infrastructural projects, are made public prior to final negotiation, so that the sums requested are reevaluated for effectiveness of resource allocation, in order that projects can be completed within schedule and budget.

It is extremely POOR logic to lump sea defense cost into all infrastructure cost to arrive at an overall infrastructure cost per capita. This approach was highlighted by the President of Guyana (Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo) in his briefing to the Nation in March 2003, with respect to his February 2003 trip to USA. The conventional approach is to treat the non sea defense infrastructure expenditures as a separate item so that the capital created from investing in the other production-based infrastructures may pay for the debt incurred for sea defenses. Was this a willful attempt by the President of Guyana to CONFUSE the loan officers of the IFA, by confounding cost per capita data sets and using the argument that physical peculiarity, including lack of inhabitants in some areas, required special reporting as lumping? That cost per capita data set in this application is meaningless. There are many other useful base variables that could have been utilized. The data set should have been presented in a more meaningful FRAGMENTARY format. Is this an indication of the financial reporting that the former Finance Minister of Guyana accepts from his subordinates, then publicize for other sectors of the society? Be your own judge, considering Lumping provides avenues for the existence of a complex network for CHEATING, STEALING, MISAPPROPRIATION, INVISIBLE and NON-EXISTING COST CENTERS and many more hidden agents with large litters of CORRUPTION.

On 01/05/03, Mr.Christopher Ram of THE BUSINESS PAGES (BP) in Guyana published on this website "… At the Ministry of Public Works and Communications, there were several instances of overpayments on contracts. The report notes without indentifying the contractor that a contract valued at $179 million for sea defence works was treated as a variation of an ongoing contract for a smaller value of $179 million instead of being awarded by a process of competitive bidding. The majority of the advances granted from the Contingency Fund was an easer and more expedient proposition than seeking Supplementary Estimates from Parliament."

More extremely shocking and disgusting revelations of improper financial management by the PPP/C Government of Guyana, Local Governments, Statutory Bodies and Trade Unions were presented in 01/05/03 issue of the BP. This report is extremely fertile with a cross section of willful infractions in management and accountability in almost every sphere of financial reporting controlled by the PPP/C Government of Guyana.

As of 01/05/03, BP reported that The Public Accounts Committee which is a Parliamentary body "..has not even completed its review of 2000 report while the Ministry of Finance blatantly disregards the requirement that it publish a Treasury Memorandum indicating the steps it proposes to take in relation to the deficiencies identified in the report…"

This issue of BP also reported that "... poor accounting, fraud and mismanagement take place year after year within the same ministries, departments, and regions … the number of bank accounts which are unreconciled keep rising, that we continue to find several public entries which do not meet minimum standards of accountability, the abuse of the Consolidated Fund, splitting of contracts to bypass tender rules, misuse of lotteries' monies and the complete disregard for the Financial Administration and Audit Act by just about every ministry, department and region."

With respect to The Auditors Report, BP highlighted "... the 2001 statements of the AG specifically mentioned his inability to satisfy himself with 10 Statement of Outstanding Loans and Advances from the Consolidated Fund, 20 Balances held on deposits by the Accountant General and 30 Statements of current assets and liabilities of the Government".

As regards Timeliness of the Report, BP stated that financial reports are submitted to the Speaker of the National Assembly way past statutory deadlines, to the extent …" that at least ten months would have elapsed before the findings were reported thereby reducing the extent to which discrepancies could be acted upon and recommendations implemented."

In the area of Discrepancies, BP offered "… what was particularly striking about the 2001 report was the similarity with the findings reported for the year 200 - the same ministries/departments/regions and the same problems except that the numbers are larger…

The Consolidated Fund being the single most important account of the Government, the bank account had not been reconciled since February 1998 …

Significant breaches in the Tender Board Regulations at the Guyana Defence Force and the Supreme Court …

The majority of ministries/departments/regions violated Section 36 of the Financial Administration Act (FAA) which requires all unspent balances as at December 31 of every year be surrendered to the Consolidated Fund. Cashbooks were kept open until January 23, 2002, while payments were systematically and deliberately backdated to December 31, 2001…

The Ministry of Education continues to misuse the main bank account to make advances and the reports points out that for the period 1997 to 2001, 565 advances totaling $49 million remained outstanding. Ninety (90) payment vouchers for a total of $19 million or an average of $211,110 per voucher were not presented for audit examination.

Similarly, the Ministry of Finance continues to misuse the proceeds from the Guyana lotteries which it retains in a special bank account. Of the $17B received so far, only

$211.7M has been paid into the Consolidated Fund while payments of $1.5 B have been made out of the special (read unlawful) account without parliamentary approval."

It may be pointed out that the Parliament of Guyana has the capability to pass Supplementary provisions/amendments to assist the Government of Guyana in managing the affairs of the Country in an efficient manner. The approval or disapproval of such matters falls under the jurisdiction of previously mentioned Mr. Reepu Daman Persuad, who is Minister for Parliamentary Affairs. As mentioned in the above, this is where the leadership of the PPP/C Government exercise MAXIMUM repressive and other Communism related powers, by either allowing a motion to be debated, tabled or never discussed. If there was any iota of decency, professional and or legal ethic or concern of even the perception of impropriety in the moral fabric of the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in Guyana, as well as in the leadership of the PPP/C, then there could have been a reasonable chance that the above mentioned FRAUDS, and seemingly endless and fluid CORRUPTION activities would have been minimized.

It is extremely difficult not to conclude that the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in Guyana, along with his cohorts and appropriate subordinates and subject Ministers of the PPP/C Government of Guyana are ultimately responsible for the level of outrageous lawlessness that is currently practiced in Guyana, and under the slogan of DEMOCRACY, as the very chronically depressed John Public looks on helplessly. It is this very Minister for Parliamentary Affairs is representing the PPP/C Government in the gridlock discussions involving the Commonwealth Secretary General and PNC/R.

Where are TI, CARICOM, Commonwealth Secretary General, OAS, WB, IMF, EU, IADB, USAID, Mr. Jimmy Carter, Caribbean Development Bank, United Nations, the State Department, the Commerce Department (involvement in Amaila Hydro Project/Flip Motilall), the Treasury Department of the Government of USA? The above BP examples and others discussed in this article, may be viewed as a sample of the inconceivable structures replete with indiscretion within the operations of the PPP/C Government of Guyana, and supported by your influence and resources under the strange name of DEMOCRACY.

This is perceived as MADNESS, DISCRIMINATION, FRAUD and CORRUPTION to the HILT. This is an extremely DANGEROUS situation with FRIGHTENING proportions in which the custodian of the Constitution of Guyana, knowingly, is breaking the law with wreckless disregard of all the people, including its supporters and those who do not support the Government of Guyana, and simultaneously expect the people to uphold the law. A significant proportion of the population are law abiding citizens, but based upon the information in the above, the PPP/C Government of Guyana continuously is in serious breach of certain laws and are therefore generating the perception they are above the existing laws or functioning under certain laws for convenience or are functioning under a different set of laws not completely explained, and ratified by the Parliament of Guyana.

What is the philosophical basis of these new invisible laws, based upon the frequency of occurrences of acts of DISHONESTY, FRAUD and CORRUPTION manifestations by the PPP/C Government of Guyana? Are these new action laws rooted in a sacred religious doctrine? In essence it would seem that the current Government of Guyana has really DELIGITAMIZE itself of being the custodian of the laws of Guyana, based on chronic FRAUDULENT and CORRUPTION conduct. Who will come to our assistance? I once witnessed on TV in the USA, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, pleading to the world community to help South Africans destroy apartheid, as tears flow unstoppable down his black puffy cheeks. Those tears were a test of his strength and faith, irrespective of the adversities. Only the dismantling of THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY with TCEP can put an end to this unimaginable situation.

CONSIDERATIONS WITHIN TCEP TO COMBAT CORRUPTION

Several previous presentations on TCEP have addressed the quality control policy attributes within its structure to address National Security and BUILDING OF TRUST as output from the application of TCEP. TCEP will ensure that legislation with adequate trained support staff are enacted or reinforced to encompass the areas that follow which are by no way exhaustible.

To prevent statute of Limitation on Banking Secrecy.

To prevent Corrupt Networks from acquire accounts, goods, STATE LANDS registered under the names of relatives or a known third party for 99 to 999 years, without the OWNERS (The Government and the People of the Republic of Guyana) consent in future transfers.

To prevent false Accounting.

To close down unreliable companies especially if it is established that bribery and illegal employment is prevalent in that company.

To prevent Government officials and Banks from establishing secret accounts to eliminate fraud, misappropriation of funds, money laundering, excessive campaign financing, excessive charges for money transfer.

To facilitate the disclosure of Government officials' relationships to Foreign Companies.

To prevent journalists from accepting soft money for withholding unpleasant discoveries of wrongs including inefficiencies of and on Government officials or programs.

To allow Civil Society to bring Bills to Parliament.

To facilitate Campaign finance limits, disclosure and monitoring.

To facilitate the declaration of Government officials on an annual basis any special secret accounts in the names of self, relatives or third parties.

To facilitate the declaration of any Government official doing business with offshore Banks.

To facilitate the cessation of lump sum entries as miscellaneous expenditures in accounting statements.

To facilitate the cessation of inflated construction cost, inventing fake job requirements, skimming (paying less that what is necessary for the job); inventing fake payrolls.

To facilitate the yearly mandatory declaration of assets of Government officials, including those of relatives and third parties.

To facilitate the Disclosure of Foreign Consultants' fees as in India.

To facilitate the cessation of unscrupulous health care professionals from demanding and/or accepting payment for medical care that is supposed to be free.

To facilitate the clear separation of Accounting Functions from Auditor functions.

To restrict illegal tendering and systematic evasion of sales, property and income taxes.

To restrict the Government from suing Citizens to harm their reputation.

To ensure that Parliamentarians and other Government officials are not immune from charges of fraud and proven corruption practices and no Statute of Limitations.

To ensure that the Government must not make unsubstantiated statements with the understanding that facts to support its statements are in the works or are forthcoming.

To eliminate bribes for export licensing, quotas, State budget transactions, tax transfers, custom duties, privatization deals, servicing debt.

To prevent conflict of interest relative to Government officials, employees, relatives and third parties.

To eliminate influence of peddling in key decision making for contracts.

To implement Tax on businesses that benefited from favors from Government officials if profits are greater that 40%.

To restrict campaign contribution from contractors, relatives and third parties relative to political parties.

To ensure municipalities and villages publish ordinances and procedures for construction permits, including applicable documents, fees and time required.

To set limits on Government jobs which do not require tendering.

To provide restrictions on logging, fishing and mining without permits.

To facilitate the freedom of Government Information.

Posted March 16th. 2003 - By Charles L. Griffith, P.E., DCFS

This article discusses a very important linkage between TCEP and Item No. 50 of the PNC/R's proposal for power sharing. It is estimated/calculated that 43% of the ITEMS in the PNC/R's proposal correspond to the concepts proposed in TCEP. Additionally, this article also points out a fundamental conceptual flaw in the statement "Building Trust To achieve Genuine Political Co-operation" as published by PPP/C (Government of Guyana). Building of Trust and Building Trust are used interchangeably.

I applaud the vision of the highly respected father of Power Sharing in Guyana, Mr. Eusi Kwayana whose proposition circa 1961 was met with great disdain and ridicule. History has not only proven the validity of his position but it has also absolved him. There are many who have authored methodical discussions on Power Sharing, but the treatise by Dr. Tara Singh, Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, Mr. Moses V. Nagamootoo and the relentless Dr. David Hinds, who have all spent countless hours conducting research and who have provided resourceful modular approaches to inclusive governance to save our homeland from further destruction. The PNC/R, too, should be commended for conceptualizing and recommending those RACE NEUTRAL legalities and other functionalities of Constitutional matters of which the author has no experience.

The author of TCEP was not aware of, nor had any information with respect to the PNC/R's preparation of its document prior to publishing "MODIFICATION TO GUYANA CONSTITUTION on 10/28/02, HOW THE PIECES FIT on 11/04/02, in which an architectural representation of the general system including manpower and relationships within THE CONCEPT OF EXTENDED PARTICIPATION (TCEP) was presented. In keeping with the same theme of non-awareness of the preparation of the PNC/R's document, THE SOLUTION TO THE EXISTING IMPASSE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION was also published on 11/04/02.

The PNC/R's distributed information on Shared Governance was published on this website on 12/6/02 and addressed a number of Governance areas to effect a new bureaucratic arrangement of a collective Governance of Guyana. The published statement is "50. Select committees. As envisaged by the recent constitutional amendments, government accountability to the parliament would be mainly actualised through the select committees. In the new environment, it becomes critical that the chairmanship of these committees be opposite to the parties holding responsibility for the corresponding ministries."

This latter proposed clause essentially assumes that the PNC/R has the responsibilities that may be defined as the management of the daily activities associated with institutions in which the Government has inputs, including specific ministries. The chairmanship for said institutions shall come from another party. With respect to the other parties having such management as in the above, the chairmanship of these institutions shall be from the PNC/R or other parties. What is very interesting about the chairmanship arrangement within the Functional Sectorial Committees is that this approach, as published in No. 50 of the PNC/R, could be found in the above referenced article THE SOLUTION TO THE EXISTING IMPASSE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION. TCEP recommended that chairmanship arrangement to BUILD TRUST, in addition to other sound governance deeds. BUILD TRUST is a byproduct of TCEP, which is the mass producer of political energy.

The PNC/R has not explicitly advocated that the MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY should be eradicated. The MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY as practiced in Guyana's tribal environment is, first and foremost, an alien within the mandates of the Constitution in Guyana, with persistent and extreme destructive and easy to identify and comprehend powers, that must be eliminated immediately, by any NON-VIOLENT revolutionary method, and must not be allowed to continue destroying GUYANA.

It is difficult not to conclude that the PNC/R, even though it has not explicitly advocated that the MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRARY should be eradicated, is supporting this concept and, by extension, is also advocating that it is the most important ingredient of any innovative, inclusive, unique and new bureaucratic governance system for Guyana. This deduction is based upon the common accountability component of the transparency operatives in the chairmanship arrangement of the Functional Sectorial Committees in Item No. 50 in the above, given the fact that the complete dismantling of THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY is the nucleus of the most cherished and welcomed birth of a governance system, that is replete with operatives and appropriate interventions, so that Guyanese may be allowed, and based upon their high productivity and competitiveness, to travel in first class on the futuristic air-line known as GLOBALIZATION.

Previous articles on this website advocated that the new creative governance system, such as TCEP, must commence with a sustained energy source or political capital with infinite positive possibilities, and whose primary focus is to find THE MAJORITY RULE COMPONENT OF DEMOCRACY which is located somewhere between DEMICO HOUSE and STABROEK market, stop it from breathing; next install TCEP to drive a National Development Program for National security and be a part of the Global Economy. In so doing, BUILDING OF TRUST, through MANDATORY multifaceted educational and religious programs and other attributes of TCEP for ANY cooperation will evolve over time. In other words put the horse, TCEP, ahead of National Development Strategy such that NATIONAL SECURITY with BUILDING OF TRUST will be the passengers. Clearly DO NOT do the reverse by asking National security with

BUILDING of TRUST (which are not Energy sources) to pull National Development Strategy and the energy source, which in this case is the horse (TCEP).

The latter unimaginable approach clearly has a conceptual flaw, that the Government of Guyana may not have recognized, or perhaps recognized but chose to broadcast it to its constituents and the International Community under the Doctrine of "Building Trust To achieve Genuine Political Co-operation".

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CRITICAL LINKAGES BETWEEN MR. BAHARAT JAGDEO STATEMETS
OF BUILDING TRUST AND THE CONCEPT OF EXTENDED PATICIPATION (TCEP)

 

 

Posted November 20th. 2002 By Charles L. Griffith, P.E., DCFS