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Glenn Lal criticises Jagdeo for holding repeated press conferences
– The vice president said he had failed to address key issues in the oil industry and other serious national problems
Kaieteur News – Businessman and civil society advocate Glenn Lall has criticised Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for holding repetitive weekly press conferences and failing to address key issues in the oil and gas industry and other national concerns.
Businessman Glenn Rall
In an episode of his weekly radio show last week, the businessman criticised the repetitive nature of the vice president’s weekly press conferences, saying: “Last week, he gave a two-hour press conference that I didn’t broadcast because it was the same dal burning on the fire and he just kept stirring it and stirring it.”
He added that the only topics of interest to the Vice President each week seemed to be “the 12 new hospitals, Rickford Burke, the Kaieteur News, letter writers, columnists, roads, schools, Nigel Hughes, the media, the opposition who never put forward a plan, bridges, the PNC, the usual stuff, and not a word about the most important thing – our oil and gold. When a reporter asked him about it, he acted like you had lit a fire under his cushion.”
Jagdeo, the chief policy maker for the oil and gas sector, has repeatedly dodged questions from this newspaper about the sector. Lall highlighted a series of questions recently posed to Jagdeo by this newspaper and the opposition parties, including documents on the gas-to-shore project; and when the project would be tabled in parliament for public viewing. “Every week, Kaieteur News When asked when Bharat Jagdeo would make the project documents public or submit them to Parliament, he sent reporters to interview Gail Teixeira who said she knew nothing about it.
He sent the documents to Vikram Bharat, but he had nothing to say…” Lal noted that Jagdeo hid the documents “because of the gangsterism involved in the $3 billion project.” The businessman noted that while Jagdeo seemed enthusiastic about the project, he was frustrated “when he was asked to produce evidence that the project would be Guyana’s power savior, he was very cold.”
Lal, who is also the publisher of this newspaper, believes that the project will be nothing short of a dud given the massive increase in cost. He reasoned, “No feasibility study, no press conference on the issue, the price doubled, and it is still feasible; Jagdeo has fabricated this feasibility out of thin air. This is another dud that will make Guyanese suffer for so-called cheap electricity.”
Lal said another example of the vice president’s lack of transparency was failing to inform the Guyanese public about the current status of the country’s oil reserves. Kaieteur News For the past two years, Exxon has been asking the state for updates. Lal said: “Look at this guy, when asked how many barrels of new oil Exxon has found in the eight fields they recently discovered, he first told the state that the discoveries were substantial but not significant. The second answer he gave was that Exxon was busy making money from the oil and they didn’t have time to count how many barrels they had found. The third thing he said was that counting is a long process…”
Lall continued to explain to the audience that until the international analysis company S&P Global put the country’s estimated reserves at nearly 19 billion barrels, the newspaper again asked the Vice President if he would promise to update the public within a week. “Well, a foreign company gave us a total of 19 billion barrels. When Kaieteur News Having found that article and published that report, Jagdeo had nowhere to hide and he issued a statement saying that he would tell us in a week, a week has passed and we are still waiting for him to release the data to tell us how much oil Exxon has discovered so far,” Lal added.
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