Disclosures
Over the last few years, a series of disclosures has exposed flaws in the way the former PPP/C government did business. The PPP/C government had to be condemned for the contract surrounding the construction and operation of the Marriott hotel. A similar course of action surrounded the contract on the access road and the hydropower project proposed for Amaila Falls. The problems surrounding the Skeldon Sugar Factory and the abandoned Specialty Hospital can also be traced to the way in which the former administration concluded the contracts. Recently, the new government announced that it had to renegotiate the contract for the expansion of Guyana’s international airport and more Guyanese are reaching the conclusion that the contract on the ownership and management of the Berbice River Bridge is woefully flawed. The Granger administration found itself also having to re-examine the contract on the procurement of pharmaceuticals and the one on the fibre optic cable. Now disturbing disclosures about contracts concluded by GuySuCo and those on the scandalous income paid to its Chief Executive Officer and that of the Guyana Power and Light have come to light as well. Apart from issues of public financial management, there is one of competition and fairness.