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Fear sparks division in Cabinet

December 25, 2015 | By | Filed Under News 

– Govt. Officials

The tone of Cabinet meetings has changed. In the beginning there was great freedom; freedom to criticize those on the outside, and more importantly, freedom to deliver constructive criticisms on those members within Cabinet.
However, now, some Cabinet members have to “think twice” before trying to criticize their colleagues lest they be reprimanded or made to feel like outcasts.
This situation was related to Kaieteur News recently by several Government officials.
The officials are of the impression that “fear” has made its way into Cabinet to the point where it has sparked division.
One official explained, “Based on the proceedings over the last few weeks, one gets the distinct impression that Cabinet members are not encouraged to criticize their colleagues, whether in or out of Cabinet. An environment is not being encouraged to facilitate that.
“Some colleagues, because of the nature of some of the disagreements in there, do not feel as though they can speak freely without people throwing tantrums, making them feel ostracized.”
Another government official supported this contention.
“Indeed certain persons feel that they don’t enjoy the freedom to speak about their colleague’s sloppiness. You find yourself between a rock and a hard place, especially when you expose something and no action is taken of your concerns. That has happened several times. There have been instances where members walked out of meetings because of this situation.”
Kaieteur News understands that this situation seemed to get worse since the completion of the forensic audit report on the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL). The report which was conducted by Chartered Anand Goolsarran was finished for over a month and the administration had not taken any action.
Cabinet members were given the report to review. Several members of Cabinet had made it known that they were in favour of Government pursuing a case for criminal charges against NICIL’s Chief Executive Officer, Winston Brassington. They indicated that his “acts of corruption against the nation just can’t be pardoned.”
The report says that Brassington bypassed internationally recognized and credible companies only to engage criminal entities for the construction of the Marriott Hotel. It stated that he failed to justify how millions of dollars were spent on the Linden Mining Enterprise, and to properly account for their assets.
Goolsarran, with credible evidence in hand, also exposed how Brassington, on behalf of NICIL, hid $1B in a secret account. The money was intended to aid in the construction of the Marriott Hotel.
Brassington also paved the way for NICIL to illegally fund the preparation of the Pradoville Two scheme, and kept $26B from the Consolidated Fund.
One Government Minister said, “The more the people read about the NICIL corruption, the more alarmed they get and the faster they want to see justice. But the Ministry of Finance seems reluctant to act. Why is Brassington still within the confines of the Ministry of Finance?
“Brassington could and should have been sent home,” the government official opined. On Wednesday, he and his deputy, Marcia Nadir-Sharma, were ordered to proceed on immediate leave to facilitate an investigation.
The official said, “There were members who were angry because statements were made about the Finance Minister; these comments were brought to his attention before and no action was taken. It is no coincidence that since Kaieteur News published the article, among others, that action was taken.”
“It is sad that this fear of antagonizing a colleague is creeping into the Cabinet level and it needs to be removed. It is not a good sign for this coalition government.”

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Quote " “Based on the proceedings over the last few weeks, one gets the distinct impression that Cabinet members are not encouraged to criticize their colleagues, whether in or out of Cabinet. An environment is not being encouraged to facilitate that.
“Some colleagues, because of the nature of some of the disagreements in there, do not feel as though they can speak freely without people throwing tantrums, making them feel ostracized.”unquote

FM

House Slaves were told in no uncertain terms, be in line or go back to the fields, the House Slavrs said, "Ow Massa we will do anything including kiss ass, wash batty or clean shit BUT dont send us back in the fields!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nehru

This is the manner in which the PNC operated under their previous dictators Burnham and Hoyte and now under Granger who is a disciple of Burnham.

PNC ruled under fear and intimidation and this continues under Granger.

Funny to watch as the AFC is destroyed and now has to survive as HOUSE SLAVES with no real voice in this administration.

They are now Granger's house slaves.

FM
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Can anyone point me to countries, except Ukraine, where cabinet members criticize each other? Is what makes the PPP think that criticizing each other in the cabinet is going to solve or resolve anything? There is no evidence for that in any government in any country. It is bad practice, but it seems that the PPP has suddenly found a taste for that. Why did Jagdeo have Sawh murdered when Sawh criticised the sale of part of the jungle to Roger Khan? 

Mr.T
Mr.T posted:

Can anyone point me to countries, except Ukraine, where cabinet members criticize each other? Is what makes the PPP think that criticizing each other in the cabinet is going to solve or resolve anything? There is no evidence for that in any government in any country. It is bad practice, but it seems that the PPP has suddenly found a taste for that. Why did Jagdeo have Sawh murdered when Sawh criticised the sale of part of the jungle to Roger Khan? 

The USA

FM
baseman posted:
Mr.T posted:

Can anyone point me to countries, except Ukraine, where cabinet members criticize each other? Is what makes the PPP think that criticizing each other in the cabinet is going to solve or resolve anything? There is no evidence for that in any government in any country. It is bad practice, but it seems that the PPP has suddenly found a taste for that. Why did Jagdeo have Sawh murdered when Sawh criticised the sale of part of the jungle to Roger Khan? 

The USA

Ow Baseman, He never heard on the US or anything decent, Human, Democratic and sensible.  Forgive the FOOL!!!

Nehru
yuji22 posted:

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Funny to watch as the AFC is destroyed and now has to survive as HOUSE SLAVES with no real voice in this administration.

They are now Granger's house slaves.

Why are you so sure that it is the AFC only which is being destroyed. Hughes and Ramjattan were lawyers, had clients from all over, and might be as implicated in any corruption which involved NICIL as any in the APNU.

FM

It seems as though some wise member of the govt is realizing that there is an ongoing nasty battle between two petty capitalists who both own newspapers. Their supporters will soon realize that there is a difference between propaganda, fraud and unethical spending by PPP. It appears also like Brassington and Marcia are the fall guys.

FM

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