Michael Brassington, the Russian mob, RusAl, the PPP & you
we already told you that CIA Brassington most likely set up the bogus helicopter deal with his cocaine friends, well now here is more proof that he did. the longer we allow the bandits and criminals of the PPP to run Guyana like their own cake shop, the further back we slip and slide away.
Mad Cow Morning News: Brassington’s father was the head of Guyana’s “state’s privatization unit,” and rejected bids by the local subsidiary of U.S. aluminum giant Reynolds Co. to buy out the state’s interest in a joint bauxite venture in favor of selling out Guyana’s state-owned bauxite company to Russian Aluminum (RusAl), controlled by Russian Mob Boss Oleg Deripaska.
update: DOES THE GUYANA GOVT REALLY “OWN” THE TWO OLD HELICOPTERS THEY “BOUGHT” - READ COMMENTS BELOW AND FOLLOW LINK TO ARTICLE
After having to borrow a helicopter from Trinidad and Tobago to get over an immediate
shortage of helicopter cover in the wake of a massacre the government in Guyana has
sourced two helicopters for use by the Guyana Defence Force.
Police Aviation News May 2008 4
The first of two helicopters acquired by the government to augment the security forces’ air capacity to fight crime arrived early last month. The new arrival was a new Bell 206B c/n 3012. On arrival the helicopter was still US registered as N2464X to Global X Group Inc., Wilmington, Delaware but it is unclear whether the deal is a lease where they remain the owners or whether the helicopter will be locally registered.
It is not clear when the other helicopter will arrive. A few weeks ago President Bharrat Jagdeo
stated that the government had made payments on two air surveillance helicopters
which were sourced from Costa Rica and the United States. The new arrival from Delaware
was clearly the latter machine.
It seems that the craft are somewhat ancient – a fact that did not escape the attention of at
least one local newspaper reader. Initial enquiries suggest that the US supplied machine is
already 27 years old – that makes it older than some of its now departed forebears in GDF
service.
Ed: The nominal strength of the Guyana Defence Force is quite high – they have operated
over 20 modern aircraft and helicopters in the last forty years but all of them fell into disrepair
through the lack of qualified engineering support. It was that situation that led to the
need to call for help from Trinidad & Tobago. Industry professionals estimate that little or no
activity has taken place for a decade.
The Guyana Government repeatedly bought helicopters for use by the GDF – a succession
of Bell 206, 212, 412, Mil-8 and Alouette’s. In each case they either succumbed to accidents,
were not maintained or simply sold off.
Two years ago Miners of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association were to acquire
their own security forces and a helicopter to operate in association with the Ministry of
the Interior after mining areas became the subject of major attacks by gunmen. The proposal
does not seem to have seen the light of day but the talk then was of obtaining two
helicopters to ensure the safety of the first flying over the vast and sparsely inhabited
214,970sq km/83,000 sq mls interior of the country. It may be that there is a link between
the two new helicopters and that older proposal.
Readers may recall earlier complaints about the GDF using its aircraft commercially. They
operate the only Short Skyvan in the country, and it is equipped to carry heavy equipment.
As a result the miners charter the GDF Skyvan rather than commercial options in Guyana.
Similarly the army’s Y-12-Turbo Panda aircraft, nominally acquired from the Chinese Government
back in 2002 for Economic Zone Patrol and comprehensively equipped to do parachuting
and medevac does not seem to actually undertake the role it was acquired for let
alone anti-drug trafficking patrols.
Police Aviation News
http://www.policeaviationnews.com/Acrobat/PANewsMay2008.pdf
jack
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