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By Abena RockcliffeThe term “friends with benefits” was magnified in a section of the National Industrial and CommercialDr. Ranjisingh‘Bobby’ RamroopInvestments Limited (NICIL) audit report which confirmed that Dr. Ranjisingh ‘Bobby’ Ramroop—best friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo—was able to grab the Sanata Complex at a gift price.The report also highlighted NICIL’s admittance that it sold the property to Dr. Ramroop at a valuation price of what the property was worth before large sums were spent on renovation.NICIL sold 18.891 acres of land with buildings and erections at the Plantation Ruimveldt for US$3.4M to Queens Atlantic Investments Inc. (QAII) in 2010. Kaieteur News understands that this sale recorded a major loss for the State as pre-sale rehabilitation works on the complex had cost close toUS$5M with US$2M being spent on the removal of asbestos alone.Chartered Accountant and former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran, had highlighted the sale of the property in his forensic audit report on NICIL.He said, “By Order No. 40/2010 dated November 29, 2010, NICIL sold 18.891 acres of land and buildings and erections at the Plantation Ruimveldt (Sanata Textiles) to Queens Atlantic Investments Inc. (QAII) for $689 million (US$3.4M). The note on NICIL’s publication reads: After being advertised for sale but no proposals was received, in mid- 2007, a proposal was received from QAII for the development of the compound with a US$27 million investment plan.The proposal was for a lease with an option to purchase. At the time of the proposal NICIL was facingFormer President, Bharrat Jagdeocontinued vandalism and destruction to the property despite the presence of security. In 2007, following the requisite approvals, a lease was issued and in 2010 having satisfied all the conditions precedent to exercise the option to purchase, the property was sold at the current market valuation of the property before the improvements were implemented”NICIL’s Executive Director, Winston Brassington, and the Executive Chairman of QAII, Dr Ramroop, in a joint missive, had stated that the privatization of Sanata had taken the form of the issuance of a 99-year lease at a substantive rental of approximately $50M per year.However, there was nothing in Goolsarran’s report that proves that Dr. Ramroop had indeed been paying the cost for the lease.Following the acquisition of this property, QAII reported that its assets more than doubled.The company’s 2010 Financial Statements, which were inked by the Group’s head and best friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, Ramroop, verified that the group’s total assets for 2009 were $3.6B. It skyrocketed to $7.9B in 2010. A property bought for only $689M hiked QAII’s more than $4B higher.Rehabilitation and construction of the facilities which commenced in June 2007 were said to be phased over a three-year period.Until it was sold, Sanata was leased to and managed by the China Textiles Industrial Corporation for Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation of China.In 2000, the assets of the company were brought under the control of NICIL and subsequently a new company,NICIL’s Executive Director, Winston BrassingtonG&C Sanata, was established.Queens Atlantic Investment Inc. was incorporated in Guyana in 1999..The Government of Guyana in 2008 approved the privatization of the Sanata Textiles Complex (Sanata), Industrial Site, Georgetown to QAII for the purpose of establishing a multi-purpose investment complex.Dr Ramroop at the time had intimated that he envisaged an overall investment of US$30M and the creation of 1200 jobs of which 600 new, permanent jobs would become a reality by the end of 2008. This never materialized.August 26, 2016No evidence Ramroop’s R/veldt complex is a GWI customer– Operations could be back-billed tens of millions$$$– Investigators asked to leave compoundThe state-owned Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has started investigations on the Ruimveldt property sold by Government to Queens Atlantic Investments Incorporated (QAII), a company controlled by Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop.Known as the Sanata Textile Mill property, GWI technicians reportedly visited it more than a week ago to carry out checks.From indications, according to GWI officials, QAII, has not been paying its water bills. It appears that the connections are illegal.As a matter of fact, GWI could find no trace of the property even being listed as a customer.“We have made checks of that property, and it is, as you know, a pretty large piece with many buildings, and surprisingly enough, there is no trace of it as one of our customers,” a GWI officer disclosed yesterday.GWI officials are mystified, as the water company owns the well that had been sunk right in the compound. That well was there for at least two decades, as far back when a Chinese company was there operating a textile mill.GWI technicians have been accessing the compound quite regularly to carry out maintenance and other works.The well currently serves about 9,000 customers in the Ruimveldt area, including D’Aguiar Park, Alexander Village, Meadowbank and West Ruimveldt.“What we found from the initial checks is that there is a bulk meter in place serving the buildings. We were unable to conduct more investigations as our team was ordered to leave the premises.”The GWI official declined to explain who ordered his team to leave the premises – GWI’s management or QAII.It is believed that QAII which has been in the compound has been utilizing water from the well since it started operations as far back as 2008. It therefore could be backdated tens of millions of dollars now by GWI for using water and not paying for it.GWI will have to determine the extent of the usage of possible illegal connections.GWI’s Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van West Charles, declined yesterday to speak on the issue, noting, through his management, that the matter is currently engaging the attention of the entity.The Sanata Complex houses a number of QAII subsidiaries including the Guyana Times operations, TVG28, and Radio Guyana. It also houses a drug bond and administrative offices for New GPC.The problem is a huge one for GWI which currently has more than $4B outstanding from delinquent and other customers. Over the past year, almost $1.8B was collected.A large number of customers remained unmetered, so it is difficult to determine how much revenue is actually lost. Additionally, a number of new private schemes and commercial operations have been receiving water, but through illegal connections.GWI, the official said yesterday, is now systematically going throughout the country to determine how much it is losing.With regards to Ramroop’s operations, it is unclear how long the complex has been receiving water and whether the connections were made when the property was handed over to Ramroop and company.What is known is that previous Governments under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) spent US$5M to refurbish the complex before questionably selling to QAII for a mere US$3.4M around 2008. It is unclear whether the US$5M was spent on refurbishing the water connections.The entire complex, 18.891 acres of it with buildings and erections, has been described as a giveaway by former president, Bharrat Jagdeo, to his best friend, Dr. Ramroop.The Jagdeo-led administration in 2008 approved the privatization of the Sanata Textiles Complex (Sanata), Industrial Site, Georgetown to QAII for the purpose of establishing a multi-purpose investment complex.Dr Ramroop at the time had intimated that he envisaged an overall investment of US$30M and the creation of 1200 jobs of which 600 new, permanent jobs would become a reality by the end of 2008. This never materialized.August 28, 2016Tug-of-war over water well at Sanata…GWI paying almost $3M monthly for facility QAII claims it owns– Chairman denies any conflict of interest over New GPC sponsorshipThe Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is insisting that it is the owner of a well currently housed in the Ruimveldt compound of Queens Atlantic Investment Inc. (QAII).As a matter of fact, the entity said yesterday, it has been spending millions of dollars every month in electricity and labour costs to upkeep the facility which currently serves over 9,000 customers in the Ruimveldt area, including D’Aguiar Park, Alexander Village, Meadowbank and West Ruimveldt.That expenditure by GWI would contradict claims by QAII, which controls a number of media companies and New GPC, that it owns the well.The claims by Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, a close friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, immediately raised questions as to how the well ended up in the hands of QAII while GWI was paying for its maintenance.The issue came to the fore over a week ago when GWI technicians, as part of its drive to collect over $4B owed by consumers- domestic and commercial- across the country, started to conduct checks at QAII.However, the GWI technicians were reportedly stopped by their management when they started investigations.Following the report by Kaieteur News on Friday – of the investigations of alleged water theft by QAII – Dr. Ramroop took to his newspaper, claiming in a lead article yesterday that the visit by GWI technicians was in retaliation to a story that the water company Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van-West Charles, benefitted from a fuel licence while in office.QAII claimed that the well in question is in fact wholly owned by QAII, with GWI and its predecessor companies never owning it.“Like many industrial operations, large complexes have their own well and operate these independently of GWI… QAII has always sought to be a good citizen and has maintained that there is an arrangement where the water from the well can be accessed for GWI usage,” Dr. Ramroop is quoted as saying.QAII said it is not and never was a customer of GWI. As a matter of fact, the well and the compound, known as the Sanata Textile property, is private property.“Over the years, the well and the environs have always been recognised as being under private ownership, and are currently owned by QAII… QAII will continue to pursue a good relationship with GWI for shared access to the water resources of the well.”However, GWI officials insisted yesterday that while the well is in the compound of QAII, GWI has always maintained control of the well,mlb jerseys china, ever since the 1970s when it was built.It was emphasised that GWI technicians visit the well every day and electricity bills, amounting to almost $3M monthly, are being paid by the state-owned company. All the maintenance works are also being carried out by GWI.“Workers have to pass by the security hut at the Ruimveldt compound to access the wells and there are logs to prove this,” GWI said.According to QAII, most of the water from the well is being used by GWI,Cheap Jerseys, with the company never being a customer at the location, “given that QAII is accessing water from its own well.”GWI CAMPAIGNContacted yesterday, the Managing Director disclosed that he was out of the country. Questioned on the allegations by QAII that the visit was in retaliation to a report on the fuel licence, the official said it was utter nonsense.“GWI has started a countrywide campaign to collect what is owed. That is estimated at over $4B right now. We have collected almost $2B over the past year alone. Our crews have been visiting businesses, homes and other places as part of that. QAII is not different.”Questioned why he ordered the GWI to leave the Ruimveldt compound, the Managing Director said he was asked by the Chairman of the Board, Nigel Hinds.He advised this newspaper to call the Chairman.When contacted, Hinds disclosed that indeed he asked Van-West Charles to cease the inspections at the complex as there were questions over the ownership of the well. Also there was the very real scenario of the visit being seen as retaliation.The order to stand down came one day after the technicians had visited the site and not immediately, Hinds stressed.The Chairman of the Board was also questioned about the possibility that his order for technicians to cease investigations would raise eyebrows over the fact that the sports organization over which he presides, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), was recently sponsored by New GPC, a subsidiary of QAII.Hinds is the President of GABF and a well-known auditor.New GPC is the main sponsor of the Guyana boys’ team which is currently participating in the 2016 CentroBasket Under-15 Young Men Championships in Puerto Rico.Hinds, in his defence, said that the request for sponsorship was made since June and was only recently approved by New GPC. He denied that it was an overreach of his authority or conflict of interest over the sponsorship when he requested the technicians to stand down.As a matter of fact, he said, a meeting is set to be held as early as tomorrow with GWI management for the company to determine the ownership of the now controversial well. Based on that, the water company will decide on the way forward.Should QAII be found guilty of stealing water, it could be forced to pay tens of millions of dollars for bills dating back to around 2008 when the company acquired the Sanata Textile complex.Meanwhile, GWI officials have confirmed that they are also looking at another property of QAII. This one is on Camp and Quamina Streets, which up to last year used to house the offices of TVG28 and Guyana Times, two media outfits owned by the group.It is unclear where the property was getting its water from. However, inspectors found connections leading from the outside to the building.September 01, 2016PPP gave Ruimveldt well to Ramroop in Sanata Deal – GWI confirms– Ramroop agrees to settle bill for Camp Street propertyQAII’s head, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘ Bobby’ RamroopFor more than three decades, it was under the control of Government. Then in the late 2000s, a water well at the Sanata Textile Complex, Ruimveldt, was sold under questionable circumstances by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to Queens Atlantic Investments Inc. (QAII), a group of companies under the direction of Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop.NICIL is the state-owned company that handles investments and privatizations of public properties.Why the administration of former President Bharrat Jagdeo decided to sell the well which was managed by the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is now the big question. Jagdeo is a close friend of Ramroop.While the well was located in the Sanata complex, it served over 9,000 customers in the Ruimveldt area, including D’Aguiar Park, Alexander Village, Meadowbank and West Ruimveldt.Each month, GWI has been paying almost $3M in electricity bills for the well as well as sending its technicians daily. Its technicians access the well through QAII security.The ownership of the well came up recently when technicians attempted to conduct checks of water connection at the QAII at the Ruimveldt facility, but were later asked by management of the water company to suspend all investigations until further notice.The complex houses a newspaper, radio and storage bond, as well as administration offices of QAII.QAII claimed that the visits by technicians were in retaliation to a report carried in a newspaper it owned that GWI’s Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van-West Charles, benefitted from a fuel import and storage licence.Dr. Van-West Charles later admitted that he told the technicians to stand down after he was requested to do so by Chairman of the GWI Board, Mr Nigel Hinds.Hinds, when asked, said that ownership of the well was in question and GWI needed to probe this.The Chairman said he would be releasing the findings of the probe. A meeting was held this week between GWI management and Ramroop, with the water company issuing a statement yesterday confirming indeed that the well is no longer in GWI’s control.According to a GWI statement, its investigations were to ascertain in whose name the well located in the compound of Sanata Textile, Ruimveldt, was registered.GWI said that during the meeting with Ramroop, it was agreed that “GWI will continue to service the well, which also supplies water to residents within its environs.”QAII’s building at Camp and Quamina Streets. GWI says that“all outstanding monies owed have been settled amicably”GWI said that Dr. Ramroop indicated that he had bought the entire complex which included the well but “inherited the daily checks of the well by GWI .He assured GWI that he will not interfere with this arrangement.”GWI said that based on information received internally, the well was maintained by Guyana Sewage and Water Works Commission (GS&WC) and when the merger occurred in 2002, resulting in the formation of GWI, the practice continued.With regards to another property owned by QAII, and located at Camp and Quamina Streets, and which like the Sanata complex was not reflected on GWI database, the water company said that it has agreed to come to a settlement.“Meantime, GWI is pleased to report that all outstanding monies owed to this utility by QAII have been settled amicably. QAII owns the building at 238 Camp and Quamina Streets, which housed two media outfits (Guyana Times and Television Guyana Ch. 28) and was willing to settle any outstanding rates for that property.It should also be noted that the monies have already been paid to settle the account of the above address.”GWI said it hopes to continue this relationship of “mutual understanding with QAII”, where bills are paid up to date for all of its commercial offices that utilize water services.The revelations that NICIL, under the administration of Jagdeo, handed over the well to QAII, as part of the entire Sanata deal, would raise questions about what else has been given away.It would be recalled that the Sanata transaction has sparked anger over the manner in which was done.NICIL’s advertisement was for a part of the complex. When no one expressed interest, Ramroop somehow was allowed to make an offer for the entire complex.Jagdeo later claimed that as a matter of principle, he had asked to leave the Cabinet meeting where the Sanata deal was being considered for approval.September 07, 2016Water well in Sanata Complex compound…Former Auditor General questions true ownershipThe former Auditor General of Guyana, Anand Goolsarran said that it “baffles” him how a Guyana WaterFormer Auditor General Anand GoolsarranIncorporated (GWI) well could be sold or given to Dr Bobby Ramroop. This is in light of revelations that Ramroop is the owner of such a well, located in the Sanata Complex compound, and that supplies some 9,000 residents of West Ruimveldt, D’Aguiar Park, Alexander Village and Meadow BankGoolsarran further pointed out that there is a need for the public to see the agreement of sale to ascertain whether the well was included in the sale price of the Sanata Complex. He also questioned whether or not the 9,000 residents of West Ruimveldt are paying the new owners for water usage,cheap nfl jerseys china, or if the state entity, GWI,wholesale jerseys china, is collecting payment for the water.He further declared that the well can only be owned by the new owners if it is included in the sale agreement and was an asset in the balance sheet of Sanata Textile Limited. The other question he posed was whether the well was reflected as an asset in the balance sheet of GWI. He stated that if it is so, the well belongs to GWI and could not have been sold in the privatisation of the Sanata Complex. This he noted is because the Sanata Complex is a separate legal entity and so is the GWI.“You simply cannot take an asset that belongs to GWI and sell as part of the sale of Sanata.”The former Auditor General stressed for the need of establishing “conclusively” whose well it is.The controversy surrounding the well issue first came to light when a GWI technical team attempted to conduct inspection of a water connection attached to buildings within the Sanata Complex.The GWI technicians and Ramroop’s management subsequently had a confrontation. Following the confrontation, the technicians were later asked to stand off and suspend all investigations until further notice by management at the utility company.After questions by this newspaper to GWI officials, it was later confirmed that the ownership of the well was in question and GWI needed to do investigations.GWI subsequently issued a statement on August 31, confirming that the well was no longer under its control. According to a statement by the company, the investigations were to ascertain in whose name the well located in the compound of Sanata complex,Wholesale Jerseys USA, was registered.After this was disclosed, it was agreed between Ramroop and the utility company that “GWI will continue to service the well, which also supplies water to residents within its environs.”This is however highly questionable, as GWI will be servicing what is now a private well with taxpayers’ money.GWI further said that Ramroop indicated that he had bought the entire complex which included the well, but “inherited the daily checks of the well by GWI”.September 14, 2016SARU keeps watchful eye on Sanata Complex well dealTroubled by the makings of the deal, the State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) says that without a doubt,SARU Head,Dr. Clive Thomasit is now “keeping a watchful eye” on the controversial situation involving a well that is located in the Sanata Textile Complex in Ruimveldt.This was confirmed by Head of the Unit, Dr. Clive Thomas.Thomas said, “I find it alarming that a public well can be sold as part of a deal to a private citizen. I can understand if the well is being leased but I just can’t wrap my head around the idea that Ramroop was gifted this state asset as part of some deal with the former regime. So we are definitely keeping an eye on this matter. It is marked on our list.”For more than three decades, it was under the control of Government. Then in the late 2000s, a water well at the Sanata Textile Complex, Ruimveldt, was sold under questionable circumstances by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to Queens Atlantic Investments Inc. (QAII), a group of companies under the direction of Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop.Why the administration of former President Bharrat Jagdeo decided to sell the well which was managed by the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is now the big question. Jagdeo is a close friend of Ramroop.While the well was located in the Sanata complex, it served and continues to serve over 9,000 customers in the Ruimveldt area, including D’Aguiar Park, Alexander Village, Meadowbank and West Ruimveldt.Each month, GWI has been paying almost $3M in electricity bills for the well as well as sending its technicians daily. Its technicians access the well through QAII security.The ownership of the well came up recently when technicians attempted to conduct checks of waterDr. Ranjisinghi‘Bobby’ Ramroopconnection at the QAII at the Ruimveldt facility,NHL Jerseys Authentic, but were later asked by management of the water company to suspend all investigations until further notice.The complex houses a newspaper, radio and storage bond, as well as administration offices of QAII.QAII claimed that the visits by technicians were in retaliation to a report carried in a newspaper it owned that GWI’s Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van-West Charles, benefitted from a fuel import and storage licence.Dr. Van-West Charles later admitted that he told the technicians to stand down after he was requested to do so by Chairman of the GWI Board, Mr Nigel Hinds.Hinds, when asked, said that ownership of the well was in question and GWI needed to probe this. The Chairman said he would be releasing the findings of the probe.In the meantime, GWI in a statement to the press said that Dr. Ramroop indicated that he had bought the entire complex which included the well but “inherited the daily checks of the well by GWI.”He assured GWI that he would not interfere with this arrangement.October 9, 2016The Sanata well belongs to us… GWI moves to recover over $200M owed by RamroopDr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ RamroopWeeks after several back and forth, the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is moving to recoup an estimated $200M that it says is owed by Queens Atlantic Investments Inc. (QAII), a group of companies under the direction of Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop.According to GWI officials, the state-owned entity is convinced, based on several documents, that the well, located at QAII compound, Ruimveldt, was never transferred to QAII.The well serves over 9,000 customers in the Ruimveldt, Meadow Bank and Alexander Village area.Recently,Jerseys NFL Cheap, the nation heard that the well was transferred to QAII when the Bharrat Jagdeo administration leased and then sold the Sanata complex in a privatization deal that was described as a sweetheart one.According to documents seen by Kaieteur News, in 2002, former Minister of Housing and Water, Shaik Baksh, signed an order under the Water and Sewerage Act vesting several properties into GWI.GWI’s Schedule of Fixed Assets lists the Sanata well as belonging to the state entity. There is other evidence too that suggests that the well is GWI’s.For example, in the records of the Privatisation Unit/National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), the state entity that handled the deal, there are several references to the well.In one case, it speaks of a Memorandum of Understanding between G&C Sanata, the Georgetown Sewerage and Water Commissioners (GS&WC) and NICIL. GS&WC is the predecessor of GWI.According to the NICIL documents, GS&WC took possession of the well in 1996, starting to manage its operations from then. The water from the well was for public consumption.There is no evidence of the well being privatized to Sanata.GWI recently said that it has been spending $3M monthly on electricity bills for the well.GWI technicians had to access the well through QAII’s compound.While GWI’s Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van West Charles had initially signaled intentions to go after QAII for outstanding monies, his board had issued a statement stating the well belongs to QAII and that GWI will continue to pay the electricity bill with the complex to continue receiving free water.GWI’s boss, Dr. Richard Van West CharlesRamroop is a close friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo under whose rule the 18-plus acres property was privatized. He was also associated with now resigned Chairman of the GWI Board, Nigel Hinds.The issue came to the fore several weeks ago when GWI technicians, reportedly as part of its drive to collect over $5B owed by consumers- domestic and commercial- across the country, started to conduct checks at QAII.However, the GWI technicians were reportedly stopped by their management when they started investigations..”GWI officials had insisted that while the well is in the compound of QAII, GWI has always maintained control of the well, ever since the 1970s when it was built.It was emphasised that GWI technicians visit the well every day.Asked why he ordered the GWI to leave the Ruimveldt compound, the Managing Director said he was asked by the Chairman of the Board, Nigel Hinds, to stay his hand.When contacted, Hinds disclosed that indeed he asked Van-West Charles to cease the inspections at the complex as there were questions over the ownership of the well. Also there was the very real scenario of the visit being seen as retaliation.The order to stand down came one day after the technicians had visited the site and not immediately, Hinds stressed.The Chairman of the Board was also questioned about the possibility that his order for technicians to cease investigations would raise eyebrows over the fact that the sports organization over which he presides, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), was recently sponsored by New GPC, a subsidiary of QAII.Hinds is the President of GABF and a well-known auditor.October 16, 2016Ramroop meets GWI over $200M owed for Sanata wellThe Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) on Thursday met with representatives of the Queens Atlantic Investments Inc. (QAII), to discuss the ownership of a water well in Ruimveldt.The well is in the compound of QAII but the state-owned water company has been involved in a battle over ownership.On Thursday, head of QAII, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, met with GWI’s Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van West Charles, to discuss the payment of $200M-plus in arrears.Ramroop reportedly went alone.GWI is sticking to its contention that it owns the well.Contacted yesterday, the Managing Director declined to go into details. He would only say that the matter is engaging GWI.Ramroop was reportedly summoned since last week after several back and forth with GWI.GWI wants to collect an estimated $200M that it says is owed by the group.Last week, according to GWI officials, the state-owned entity is convinced, based on several documents, that the well located at QAII compound, Ruimveldt, was never transferred to QAII.The well serves over 9,000 customers in the Ruimveldt, Meadow Bank and Alexander Village area.Recently, the nation heard that the well was transferred to QAII when the Bharrat Jagdeo administration leased and then sold the Sanata complex in a privatisation deal that was described as a sweetheart one.The news shocked the nation.According to documents seen by Kaieteur News, in 2002, former Minister of Housing and Water, Shaik Baksh, signed an order under the Water and Sewerage Act vesting several properties into GWI.GWI’s Schedule of Fixed Assets lists the Sanata well as belonging to the state entity. There is other evidence too that suggests that the well is GWI’s.For example, in the records of the Privatisation Unit/National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), the state entity that handled the deal, there are several references to the well.In one case, it speaks of a Memorandum of Understanding between G&C Sanata, the Georgetown Sewerage and Water Commissioners (GS&WC) and NICIL. GS&WC is the predecessor of GWI.According to the NICIL documents, GS&WC took possession of the well in 1996, starting to manage its operations from then. The water from the well was for public consumption.There is no evidence of the well being privatised to Sanata.GWI recently said that it has been spending $3M monthly on electricity bills for the well.However, GWI technicians had to access the well through QAII’s compound.Ramroop is a close friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo under whose rule the 18-plus acres property was privatised.GWI technicians, reportedly as part of the drive to collect billions of dollars owed by consumers – domestic and commercial users across the country, started to conduct checks at QAII.However, the GWI technicians were reportedly stopped by their management when they started investigations.”GWI officials had insisted that while the well is in the compound of QAII, GWI has always maintained control of the well, ever since the 1970s when it was drilled.It was emphasised that GWI technicians visited the well every day.______________________________________________Read also about:The Tale of Bharrat Jagdeo and his best friend Bobby RamroopThe Media & Telecommunication Heist of GuyanaThe Berbice Bridge SchemeThe Marriott Scheme
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