Dear Editor,
I would like to refer to a letter printed in the Friday 9th 2007 edition of your paper titled “The Company that got the contract to import the BMWs is part-owned by Mr Reepu Daman Persaud’s son”. I would like to offer this response to the writer; however, I cannot appropriately address him since he did not have the courage to print his name.
BMW and myself signed a letter of intent in December of 2005 to establish Prestige Motors Inc. as the official supplier of BMW vehicles in Guyana. This was well before BMW AG announced its intention to sponsor the CWC tournament. You should know that as a result of this relationship the only possible supplier of BMW vehicles in Guyana would be our Com-pany and as a result, I don’t know how the public bidding process would work.
If you had continued your research of Prestige Motors Inc. instead of getting excited by seeing that I was my father’s son, you would have learnt that there were three proposals put forward by Prestige Motors to the Cabinet during the course of 2006 for the use of the BMW brand during our upcoming cricket tournament. All of those proposals were rejected before the Government proposed purchasing and resell-ing the vehicles themselves.
With respect to Prestige Motors’ knowledge of the BMW vehicle, you should also know that Prestige currently employs persons who are trained in both pre and after sales service of the BMW vehicles. This training went a little beyond the driving of a friend’s 7 series motor car and declaring it was the ultimate driving machine.
As for the “feathering of nests,” I will be the first to tell you that I am only interested in feathering my own nest as that’s where my family lives. As for my father, I think the writer should write another letter and sign his real name apologizing for his ignorance.
Yours faithfully,
Vishok Persaud
