propaganda press! freedom in Guyana

BUDDY’S HOTEL IS GUYANA’S MOST VISIBLE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. PARTIALLY BUILT WITH TAXPAYERS MONEY & ON STATE LAND GIVEN AWAY FOR CHEAP IN SECRET DEALS. REMEMBER THAT NEXT TIME A BANDIT FROM THE PPP AND/OR BHARRAT JAGDEO OPEN THEIR BLOODY MOUTHS.

Georgetown, GINA, May 14, 2008
GO-Invest Head wants Press Association to investigate Stabroek News report on Buddy’s Hotel & Criminal Enterprise sale [Geoffrey Da Silva you really want to open the floodgates of investigations in Guyana bai? tell we]
Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) Geoffrey Da Silva is seeking the assistance of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) to investigate the recent reports by Stabroek News on the sale of Buddy’s International Hotel & Criminal Enterprise. [the same GPA that can't investigates our cocaine govt ]

At a press conference today, Da Silva said the reports, one of which was also carried in the Kaieteur News, should be investigated since some of the information contained within was inaccurate. [hmmm investigated for inaccurate information eh Geoff!]

“I question very seriously who actually did this interview, when it was done, and where it was done. I don’t want to go beyond that at this time. I would like to ask the GPA to investigate it, to find out who is Judy Fitzpatrick in St. Maarten… I do question whether an interview was carried-out with Mr. Ozkan.”

Da Silva pointed to several of the inaccuracies in the report which included, that Guyana’s Premier Criminal Enterprise [aka Buddy’s Hotel]was sold for by Omprakash ‘Buddy’s’ Shivraj for US$25M. The sale price was about US$15M [he does not know the exact number!!]. He said the main investor owns 35 hotels in different countries and not 15 as reported in the Stabroek News. [ayeeee! 35 not 15!! put dat in yuh craw Stabroek...maybe Geoff, Buddy's the gangster and Bharrat Jagdeo should release proper information to the public since public money was used to build this white elephant casino to be. oh is Guyana the public have no fucking right to know anything other than what the PPP decide they ought to know, which is NOTHING]

Stabroek News reported that Buddy’s International Hotel was sold for US $25M to Turkish hotelier Sudi Ozkan last month. The article was purportedly written by Judy H. Fitzpatrick in St. Maarten.

Da Sliva said that he has spoken to the investors but did not say what were their comments on the issue, only that sometime later this week they will speak on the matter. [the public right to know comes first again]

Stabroek News: When quizzed by this newspaper as to whether he had spoken with the investor himself and had received a denial from him that he consented to an interview, Da Silva said he had spoken with “a representative”. [you might want to read that again. as once again a govt official in Guyana shoots himself in the mouth]
He told reporters that when local newspapers carried headlines which only spoke of negative things happening in the country, investors questioned them, making negotiations difficult for him. [ayuh mek he wuk moe easy fuh he nuh]

It was lamented by the GO-Invest Head that the Stabroek News over the years seems to be bent on reporting the negative side of investments in Guyana despite the necessary information being provided to the newspaper.

“The impression is that nothing much is happening and that anything that is of any positive nature happening in Guyana, it always has to have a negative side. So that Guyanese in Canada and the United States will somehow have an impression that Guyana is a ‘deh’ bad country.”

He emphasized that efforts are ongoing to maintain an enabling environment to attract more investments pointing to the many investments that are taking place and are in the pipeline.

“The kind of the investment we are getting across the board, in mining, agriculture, tourism, wood sector is significant. 312 projects, US $564M…I gave a pile of those information to Mr. De Caries in October last year but on to now Stabroek news has not carried anything.” [a pile of rubbish?]

sidebar: Before returning to Guyana to line his pockets with his communist friends and allies in the PPP Geoffrey DaSilva worked for the Communist Party of Canada in the ’80s. He was such a mover and shaker of a Communist, he ran as a candidate of the Communist Party several times in various Canadian elections [federal and provincial] check him out for y’self. don’t take it from propaganda press. when DaSilva talks about the US or the ‘west’ his face gets red and the veins in his neck swell up and spittle is plentiful….but as you can see he is a red communist who loves green.