ronan posted:

Labba posted:

Labba posted:

Hey hey hey...abie black bai KKK tink only coolie go suffer...hey hey hey...

Hey hey hey...how dem coolie peopkle bad and racial...dem doan wan dem dauta marrid black man...hey hey hey...

this talking to yourself thing seems to be a "thing" now

good thing you got the "labba" handle here to vent your race bile

your head would explode in 'proper, public' conversation otherwise

Hey hey hey...ayoo hear abie one love sunday church man na know caribj was rantin bout dis evidence foh over 10 dankey years...hey hey hey...de ROAR jumbie choke ayoo one lovers do gooders neck suh de air na go in de brain? Hey hey hey...

Baseman posted:

caribny posted:

Basemen please stop this nonsense that Jagdeo presided over a boom.  The economy was doing quite poorly until gold prices soared.  Jagdeo was NOT responsible for the gold rush and its spill off impacts on the construction and retail sectors.

Dummy, Guyana is a commodity-based economy.  It always did well when commodity prices are favorable!

So dumb you are that this is my point. If gold prices are high and Guyana benefitted how is this evidence that Jagdeo did a good job?  Before this Guyana was doing so badly that Indo Guyanese were being enslaved in Trinidad by Indo Trinidadian employers with at least 2 getting shot when they asked to be paid.  

In areas where Jagdeo had control he was a DISASTER whether its this bridge or sugar or rice.  Look at how he screams that Guyana should sell rice to Venezuela when the world knows that Venezuela is broke!

Dave posted:

One BLACKMAN on this forum ( Carib) call for Jagdeo people to pay the US $40 .

what this black racist should realize is Indians tax dollars are spend to develop Blacks village. If the Indians Tax $ were divert to subsidze the Berbice Bridge, black people will experience real suffering. 

Yes I know.  "Black man a kill ahbe and black man lazy".  Its interesting that with the most Indo population in the English speaking Caribbean Guyana is also the poorest and so many Indos are compelled to go and slave in majority black islands.

Prashad posted:

What they should do is this.  Government buys the bridge.  Then issue shares to the public to purchase the bridge. Get the Beharrys to trade the shares over their exchange and also trade the bridge shares on the other Caribbean stock exchanges.

No one is going to buy shares in this disaster.  Guyanese cannot afford to pay US$40 to cross the bridge so clearly this is a nonstarter.

Pointblank posted:

Berbice Bridge Company appeals to govt to increase tolls

Posted by: Denis Chabrol in Business, News July 10, 2018 0 Comments

 

Chairman of the Berbice Bridge Committee, Dr. Surendra Persaud.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BCCI) wants commuters to pay more to cross the river, but the company says government’s ontinued rejection of refusal to increased tolls is affecting maintenance and other operations.

If the company gets its way,  cars and minibuses will have to pay  GY$8,040 to cross the bridge; pickups, small trucks and four-wheeled drive vehicles GY$14, 600;  medium trucks GY$27,720;  large trucks GY$49,600; articulated trucks GY$116,800; freight GY$1,680 and boats GY$401,040.

 

Asked whether the company has considered the impact of these steep increases can have on ordinary Guyanese, Chairman of the Board of the Berbice Bridge Company, Dr. Surendra Persaud said the rules did not “allow us to pick and choose”. Persaud also declined to say whether the press conference and release of a Private, privileged and confidential letter to the Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson was aimed at giving government a way out of its position that tolls would not be increased.

 

Since the bridge began operations in December 2008, tolls gave never been increased. The coalition campaigned on, among other, promises no increases in tolls and on coming to office in May 2015 facilitated private speedboat operations and paid the bridge company an annual subsidy.

 

 

The Berbice Bridge Company says the company has so far racked up GY$2.8 billion in losses, causing the company to face “bankruptcy”.

 

“These accumulated losses and shortfall of cash flow have compromisrd the bridge company’s obligation to efficiently operate and maintain the bridge, including the timely servicing of its pontoons under the bridge, and have resulted in the company defaulting on its obligations to investors,” the Chairman of the Berbice Bridge Company, Dr. Surendra Persaud said in a statement.

 

Persaud said investments by the National Insurance Scheme and several pensions schemes and other private investors have become “impaired” and could result in a loss of private sector confidence in government.

 

The Berbice Bridge Chairman said government has violated its contract with the company in the Berbice Bridge Act 2006. “We are in a situation where the contractual obligations of a public private partnership have not been met on the government’s part and, if not corrected, is likely to affect the willingness of the private sector to partner with government in future projects like, for instance, the new Demerara River Bridge and the recently announced power plant to utilize some of the gas found offshore,” he said.

 

In a letter dated July 9, 2018 to Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson, the Berbice Bridge Company Chairman said the minister did not even respond to three previous applications on March 25, August 6, 2015 and January 2016.

 

“The Company’s application for toll adjustments continues to be based on the toll adjustment formula prescribed in the concession agreement that toll charges are to be adjusted to provide the company with sufficient cash flows to meet its obligations contracted in the concession agreement under the Act to operate and maintain the bridge,” Persaud told Patterson.

 

Persaud told the news conference that it would welcome government’s assistance to maintain the bridge.

I am really curious to know:

1. What rules is the BCC Chairman referring to?

2. What was in that letter?

3. What are the contractual obligations of the government which were not met?

4. Should the government offer to assist in the maintenance of the bridge, is the BCC willing to be transparent with their accounting and have the government share in the profit/loss??

caribny posted:

Dave posted:

One BLACKMAN on this forum ( Carib) call for Jagdeo people to pay the US $40 .

what this black racist should realize is Indians tax dollars are spend to develop Blacks village. If the Indians Tax $ were divert to subsidze the Berbice Bridge, black people will experience real suffering. 

Yes I know.  "Black man a kill ahbe and black man lazy".  Its interesting that with the most Indo population in the English speaking Caribbean Guyana is also the poorest and so many Indos are compelled to go and slave in majority black islands.

 

You need to have your ead examine. Seeing Indians as slave in Black nation 

caribny posted:

Dave posted:

One BLACKMAN on this forum ( Carib) call for Jagdeo people to pay the US $40 .

what this black racist should realize is Indians tax dollars are spend to develop Blacks village. If the Indians Tax $ were divert to subsidze the Berbice Bridge, black people will experience real suffering. 

Yes I know.  "Black man a kill ahbe and black man lazy".  Its interesting that with the most Indo population in the English speaking Caribbean Guyana is also the poorest and so many Indos are compelled to go and slave in majority black islands.

 

Ayoo blackman cause both coolie and negro to slave in dem adda black island. You idol, Farbes mek all abie run out ah Guyana. You nah gee ayoo black peeple wrang; al ah dem ah altah bais.

Dr. Surendra Persaud is also Chair of the NIS

seems to me he is 'confused' as to where his proper fiduciary responsibilities lie