quote "Despite efforts by the Guyana government to promote other locations, Norway was firm on its position to move ahead with Amaila. The Norwegian government is adamant that Amaila is a viable option and threatened that if this was not proceeded with, then Guyana faces the possibility of losing the US$80 million for clean energy as well as pulling the plug on any continuation of the Guyana/Norway Forest preservation deal."unquote

The PNC/AFC buckled under pressure of “use it or lose it” on the US$80M it transferred to the IDB fund that undergirds Guyana’s contribution to the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, has evidently convinced the government to reverse its former opposition to the project.

After the India's Hospital Project it is now once again "Thanks to the PPP/C"

Jagdeo is probably smiling at these skontholes in the PNC/AFC

Look how the truth does come to light. These idiots in power blocked this important project while in opposition and now they have to eat crow. We are not discounting that the PPP made blunders, however let us acknowledge that they genuinely wanted to move the country forward despite stumbling they kept moving forward. What has the afc/apnu done? Destroy and block progress. 

Oh my.  The dirt always come out in the wash.  

Will not be surprised if they (PNC/AFC) hijack more of the PPP/C projects. Sheer pack of dunces in this Coalition Government.

THE SHIT HEADS CALLED PNC AND THE TWO NEE MACK NEE MAKARAM HOUSE SLAVES WERE HOLLERING THIS PROJECT IS NOT GOOD FOR GUYANA, DAT DEM KILL THE PROJECT AT ALL COST. NOW THE PROJECT IS VIABLE. THESE CLUELESS SHIT HEADS CANT RUN A BLOODY CAKE SHOP, HOW THE HELL THEY GUN RUN A COUNTRY!!!

The clueless and incompetent PNC/AFC Govt will be led by their noses.  Imagine, when did you see a foreign power demanding the development of a project that a sitting Govt shelved.  If this does not reflect incompetence of the highest order, then what.  Burnham project got killed by foreign powers, PPP project got killed by domestic politics, just to be put back on track by a foreign power.  So tell me, who civilized and who is the jackazz?

AFC/PNC are a bunch of clueless Jackasses.

Wonder AFC's Katty and her husband will take a slice again ? They want to double dip now.

Alyuh keching sense, but baseman held that position all along.  The PNC was just a bunch of old PNC guards wanting to resurrect the old order and the AFC was nothing more than a bunch of hateful PPP sour grapes augmented by a few grass-hoppers seeking intellectual relevance.

BJ looking like a star now.  All his ideas are coming to fruition.  Let's hope they follow through and the Guyanese people benefit from the PPP conceived projects.  Saying you will do it and doing it are two different things. Let's see what happens.  This is why they were calling for unity talks.  Dem nah know what fuh do and how fuh do It.   PPP saw right through them.

Contrary to the claims made by the Guyana Times, Norway is not threatening Guyana to pursue Amilia. Norway wants to find out once and for all if it is feasible or not by letting independent advisers look at the project feasibility again. The PPP covered the whole thing in smoke and mirrors. So the Norwegians want to get to the bottom of the facts and fiction.

This project was originally proposed by the PNC decades ago. The PPP wanted to use it as a vehicle to embezzle the country. That much is already known.

His ideas, I though those were ideas developed by team called Government of Guyana.  Many of those thinkers are still in Government like Clyde Roopchand at State Planning.

Jagdehoe my ass.  The only scheme he can develop is how to pentrate Kwame.

Boy, you have some axe to grind with BJ.

Within a year from now the current government will adopt all of the PPP/C proposals.

Hydropower is not the brainchild of Jagdeo. You were part of that idea during Burnham time. It pre dates Jagdeo.

Mits..check my post on Amilia click on link you can

download Guyana Times is blowing hot air.

One can say Hydro was not LFSB either, it was a colonial-era idea.  LFSB was driven by Aluminium while the PPP was broad-based sustainable development.  Anyway, does not matter, it will be Amelia, the project rejected by the current jokers!

I already pointed out that the information published in Guyana Times is factually incorrect, and even malicious.

The Project was never rejected by APNU+AFC. Prove it. The project in its original PPP/C form was filled with flaws. The current regime sought a second opinion. Millions of scarce US dollars lost to PPP/C point man FIP.

Now alyuh shame face twisting alyuh mouth.  The current Admin recently cancelled the project, now Norway show them who is the boss.
  Shame Shame, Shame 

You are a liar.

The bunch of crooks currently in office went to great lengths while in opposition with the 1 seat majority in parliament to kill this project. 

Recently Granger stated that he was vindicated for killing the project after meeting with the IDB.

Granger vindicated for scrapping Amaila after meeting IDB President

The 165MW Hydro Electric Power Plant that was being pursued, as conceived by the previous administration at Amaila Falls, was not viable. The new administration has since been vindicated in its decision not to proceed with it.

This is according to Head of State, President David Granger, who yesterday provided an update following a meeting with Luis Alberto Moreno, the President of one of the key partners in the project, the Inter American Development Bank’s (IDB).

The project which saw an escalating price tag that almost reached US$1B was sidelined by the coalition A Partnership for National Unity, Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government, a decision President Granger said, is now being vindicated.

“The IDB spent millions of dollars investigating the possibility of having a hydro power project based on the Amaila Falls, I do not want to disclose the details of my conversation with President Moreno, but I can say that generally speaking, the Amaila Falls Project as conceived by the previous administration was not viable, it is not viable and we are unlikely to proceed with the falls in the form it was conceived and presented to us,” said President Granger.

He recalled that during the life of the 10th Parliament there was never a Bill that described or defined the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.

“Two measures came before the National Assembly, one concerned the debt ceiling and the other concerned the reservoir, the area that is likely to be flooded.”

He stressed that there was none in the 10th Parliament who was given a single document “stating what the Amaila Falls Hydro Power Project’s capabilities were, apart from what we were told about building a road.”

The President said his team was never really able to determine viability of the project as a whole.

He told media operatives that APNU+AFC while in opposition pointed to the fact that the flow of water on the Kuribrong River needed to be considered in conjunction with the entire Potaro Basin.

This suggestion, he said, was aimed at looking to trap the water flows from several rivers.

“We have never seen the Kaieteur Falls bone dry but we have seen the Amaila Falls bone dry,” according to President Granger.

“We had a different concept; we want hydropower and I think the IDB is inclined to support hydropower but what was put before them is not viable,” said Granger.

He pointed out too, that the IDB conducted further investigations into the viability of the project and recalled too, that the APNU+AFC did engage with the IDB while in opposition.

The President did point out that during his meeting with Moreno over the course of the past week; they did not pursue discussions on the development of hydropower facilities either at Moco Moco or Tumatumari—two sites recently flagged by Government as possible locations for the development of smaller hydro power facilities.

According to President Granger, “There are about 100 sites in Guyana which can support hydroelectric generation and we intend to pursue hydroelectric generation.”

On the matter of the Amaila Falls Project, President Granger told media operatives, “everything about it appeared to us to be flawed and we feel vindicated in that we did not spend our good money, or we did not take loans which have to be paid back to develop that particular project.”

He is convinced that “sooner or later Guyana will have hydro power, whether it’s one project or several small projects, this is still to be decided.”

According to President Granger, the Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson, is engaged in investigating not just hydro power potential, “but also other forms of renewable energy particularly solar energy and wind.”

He disclosed too that during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, the Council of Ministers did address the concept of wind and solar farms.

“Not one-one panels, but farms which can generate (electrical) power for whole communities.”

Asked to specify whether the project being deemed not viable was a position of the IDB, Granger told media operatives: “I don’t want to speak for the IDB, but as I said the IDB spent millions of dollars investigating this project.”

According to the President, the IDB “wanted it to work but at this point in time I do not feel that they are convinced that we should proceed with the project.”

Drugb, your comprehension is limited.

Speciality Hospital revived

Yet another flip flop by the Coalition Government.

The Observation ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital was burnt down over ten years ago, and the PPP/C government never re-built it.

The Amelia falls project is.  Burnham was a failure. The PNC never did anything for Guyana unless the idea comes from the PPP

The fumes coming from your mouth is polluting the atmosphere.

I have to forgive you. You are all boozed up. That's what's talking. If I insult you, you would not even understand anyway.