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Reply to "Guyana: Will its oil boom benefit the people? - Al jazeera"

Django posted:
Iguana posted:
Iguana posted:

Khan,Mangal and Ram are embarassing.  I don't expect much benefit for Guyana from oil revenues. Much of it will be stolen, spent on shitty, poor quality projects like Skeldon and Providence, handed out to "friends" and flat out wasted.

I don't favor freeness from the government, but maybe the best thing is to set up a fund which distributes X amount to each person monthly. That's the only way the public sees anything from oil money.

Baseman may be well intended with the 10 point strategy but do we really trust these fools in the PPP and PNC to execute any large scale projects successfully? Corruption aside, these fools have no practical experience in anything and have FAILED in 50+ years of independence. We have gone BACKWARDS from the standard of life we had at independence.

Now Clive Thomas is suggesting what I mentioned in bold above. Not the best thing, but the only way the people will see any direct benefit given the clowns in the AFC, PPP, PNC.

Clive need to take backseat.

The people can benefit tremendously from infrastructure development and from investment in education and training. However, Dave's point about Guyana's poverty despite abundant natural resources is spot on. Not much will change in Guyana until the people make the govt accountable. The govt should publicize a list of projects with accompanying timelines and milestone reports for each. Any project manager in the corporate world does so. The govt that works for the people should be held just as accountable.

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