Dear Editor,
I expected that article from Minister Lee to bring reaction from you, so I refrained from writing all that I wanted to in my previous letter. How long has this practice been going on? Is it wrong? Who is being jeopardized by this practice? Between SZV and APS there are all kinds of manipulating with the monies. The only people who are not profiting from that money are those who deposited it there.
You ended your editorial with choosing the lesser of two evils. At the risk of being categorized, I have to ask why I should have to choose between two evils in order to accommodate non-documented people who live in the country. When I listen to US news, ninety per cent of the times there are statistics, as we would say here, to back up what is said. You print the paper every day, can you tell me the last time you had statistics to accompany the articles you put in your paper? That is why our politicians say a whole lot of things and get away with it.
The people here hardly know the facts. It was just made known to the public how much of the people's money is literally been high jacked. I cannot use the phrase 'mash he corn', because MP Theo Heyliger is one of those politicians who every time GEBE is in the news, is ready to talk down whichever government is involved in GEBE, during the short period that he is not there. Because of his track record with GEBE though, he should be the last one to comment negative about the men and women at GEBE, because take it or leave it if anyone knows the ins and outs of GEBE it is MP Theo Heyliger.
If he is so concerned about the residents sitting in the dark and the stalling of the economy, he should stop being a politician and I would challenge him, being part of government, to put up or shut up for the sake of the thousands of people who have kept him in government year after year.
MP Heyliger could also know who the Minister was that signed that water-tight contract in 2012. If he was not the one, hopefully not, then just like he commented on and criticized the power outages, he should also have commented on that water-tight contract. And not MP Heyliger alone for that matter, everybody in government who had to deal with the budget during those years. MP. Heyliger should, as it were, stop lay-waiting power outages for political gain. I do not care which parties are in government, those are only twenty-two people, compared to the thousands.
Talking about statistics and power outages. To be fair, can GEBE go back in its archives and pull up the number of outages that there were during the years that Heyliger was involved, and compare that number to the number of outages we have had during the time that the others were involved in GEBE. And let the people know, in order to avoid petty observations.
Russell A. Simmons
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