Kaieteur News report on Amaila Falls misleading -Prime Minister

Georgetown : Prime Minister Samuel Hinds today defended the Government’s position with respect to the statements made by the Kaieteur News about the sale of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project by Fip Motilall to Sithe Global.
Mr. Hinds added that the action by the newspaper is one aimed at harming the people of Guyana with its inuendos, as it relates to corruption and the development of Guyana.
 “They wanted to create corruption and to be really flippant about it and I felt that this was really harmful to our people because many of them do not have the experience in these sorts of matters on how large projects get done,” he said. 


 He added that while it was Government’s aim to clarify the misconception in Thursday’s edition of both the Kaieteur and Stabroek News, the papers seem to still have gone out of their way to distort and mislead the public since they were bent on creating mischief as the article boast varying errors.
Among the errors was a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which showed that the contracts between the said parties were inked in 2006, when according to Mr. Hinds this was only signed in 1998 when Mr. Motilall began work on the study for the development of the Amaila Falls project.