via Neville Quelch It is incomprehensible that any government would use its people in a most unpatriotic way for personal financial gain but, that appears to be the case in Guyana. As everyone is aware, I have been asking for the route of the transmission line from Amaila Falls Hydroelectricity Generating Station. Last Saturday, a member of a FB group provided an article dated July 10, 2013 (Seen below) from The Trinidad Express Newspaper in which a T&T businessman, speaking to a gathering of T&T business people and economists, indicated that he would be laying a 500 km submarine cable under the Atlantic Ocean between Guyana and Trinidad to take electricity from a Hydroelectricity Generating Station located in Guyana to Trinidad. As far as I am aware, there are no other Hydroelectricity Generating Stations presently under construction or planned for Guyana other than the Amaila Plant. Therefore, the electricity generated by the Amaila Plant would be destined for T&T under another secrete contract signed by the previous President to which the Guyanese people would be funding under increased foreign debt and without receiving any benefit including construction jobs. Guyana would be considered more of a credit risk, its debt rating would increase and it would be required to pay a higher rate on interest while the past president, members of the present government and friends of the PPP would be making personal financial gain from the sale. Furthermore, the increased interest rates would suck money that could be better used for other development purposes (Roads, education, healthcare, police, etc.). How could President Ramotar, the man who is supposed to be carrying the Guyanese Flag with utmost patriotism, go before the people and condemn opposition parties for withholding public funds for a project, to which the people of Guyana would not be recipients? The people of Guyana have been fooled into thinking electricity from the Amaila Falls Project would be delivered to them, would reduce if not completely eliminate the need for power outages and reduce the rates presently being paid while environmentally, leaving no carbon footprints. It will certainly leave no carbon footprints but nothing else is true as Trinidad and Tobago would be the recipients in what the businessman called an integration of the two countries. And there is more. The submarine cable is only one of several projects costing US$400 Billion that the businessman has in mind for Guyana/T&T integration which he said would be the beginning of an EU type integration that would eventually include other West Indian countries. Except for the T&T government and now people of T&T and the PPP government, no one in Guyana is aware of these plans. In my knowledge of economic history, this is the first instance of a business person laying out the development of a foreign country and speaking of using its natural resources for the good of other countries. Furthermore, integration is of a political nature and discussions must be between governments and not some one private person. Additionally, while an integration must be proposed by a government to its people, it must become an election issue and discussed by the population on a whole before negotiations with any foreign government can take place.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:28:07 +0000
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