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Jul 07, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
It is not easy to understand President Jagdeo’s obsession with a Marriott operated Hotel at the Georgetown waterfront.
It seems that he has not learnt from the Buddy’s Hotel which he supported with concessions never extended to any other Hotel in Guyana including duty free concessions, 10-year tax free holiday and numerous cars including Mercedes Benz etc.
In addition, an entire legislation was enacted to permit casino gambling in order to sell the Hotel despite the opposition of all Guyanese.
Today, the now Princess Hotel, foreign owned, is the only hotel in Guyana which enjoys those benefits. With lots of druggies and launderers with bodyguards and bags of Guyanese dollars passing through its parking lot, that hotel has become a Laundromat for illegal money.
President Jagdeo’s obsession with hotels has taken on a new dimension. After failing to personally convince private sector funding, Mr. Jagdeo has now committed US$20m of our tax dollars to build a 165-room hotel for the Marriott.
No hotel, all owned by Guyanese, has ever been built with money from the treasury. They were all built with the personal savings and sacrifices of hard working Guyanese. These persons, through their investments, have been the builders of the local hospitality industry, employing thousands of Guyanese and contributing large amounts of taxes annually.
Now these very tax dollars are being used to build a hotel for a rich multinational that can afford to build such a hotel if considered an attractive investment.
Even the Marriott knows that Guyana has three times the rooms it needs.
This money is needed to invest in education, health care, and infrastructure, even to reduce the cost of electricity, to increase public sector wages and to buy sniffer dogs to detect the constant flow of cocaine through our airport.
But no. Mr. Jagdeo wants to build a hotel for the Marriott.
This commitment of poor taxpayer’s money is immoral, illegal, and criminal. It is a barefaced attempt to rob taxpayers and give it to a rich multinational and all the shady characters associated with the project.
In so doing, Mr. Jagdeo, with the support of PPP hierarchy who are afraid to voice their opposition, is taking the country and the PPP to Cheddi’s grave.
According to Dr Roger Luncheon last week, the hotel will be built at all cost (to the poor Guyanese people).
And what about the PPP hopefuls, who are all, lining up to contest the next championship? How would they explain their silence of Jagdeo’s arrogance to Guyanese people?
N. Narine
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
Apr 19, 2024
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