Moses Nagamootoo says in his Facebook page:
"Jagdeo slanders Cheddi: During 1966, I came down to Bel Air village in Georgetown with Pandit Tiwari and a group of PPP activists to help prepare the land on which Cheddi Jagan would build his house. We fetched dirt in rice bags to fill the swampy land. Dr. Jagan, the country's former Premier, was at the time living in a rented building.
The Corentyne volunteers stayed in an old, wooden house in the adjoining lot that was owned by Boysie Ramkarran, who was then the PPP's deputy leader. We were told that Boysie had given or sold a piece of his land so that Cheddi could live near to him.
After the land-fill was completed, Dr. Jagan brought a man whose name I remember as Sadhu to build the house, which Dr. Jagan insisted he had himself designed. It was to be a two bedroom house, in which he and Janet, and their two children, were to live permanently thereafter.
It remained a modest house, which I would frequent when my family and I went to live in Bel Air village between 1975 and 1985. At that time Cheddi cultivated a vegetable patch and a variety of fruit trees. The cluster of sugar canes gave the yard the look of his boyhood Port Mourant estate.
Bharrat Jagdeo, the architect of Pradoville One and Pradoville Two, slandered Cheddi Jagan when he compared and likened Cheddi's house to his mansions. He lied when he situate Cheddi's house in Bel Air Park.
It was Bel Air village, on the outskirts of the city, known for cattle-rearing.
The Cheddi I knew and worked closely with, right until his death in 1997, was an honest, modest, frugal leader. As far as I know, the Bel Air house was the only property he had owned. He was incorruptible, and maintained utmost integrity in public life, unlike the crop of pseudo-leaders who have since hijacked his party.
Jagdeo, who had made his tenure as president into a real estate jaunt, cannot compare the modest house of the Jagans with his palaces, and the only reason he could have tried to do so in such a shameless way, is to taint them with his brush of political sleaze.
I bet Cheddi's house, at the time it was build, would cost less than that spent on Jagdeo's pool house, and far less than taxpayers' monies spent to repair or renovate the teeth of ministers, or the equivalent of a month of Jagdeo's presidential pension package!
Shame on you, Jagdeo!
"Jagdeo slanders Cheddi: During 1966, I came down to Bel Air village in Georgetown with Pandit Tiwari and a group of PPP activists to help prepare the land on which Cheddi Jagan would build his house. We fetched dirt in rice bags to fill the swampy land. Dr. Jagan, the country's former Premier, was at the time living in a rented building.
The Corentyne volunteers stayed in an old, wooden house in the adjoining lot that was owned by Boysie Ramkarran, who was then the PPP's deputy leader. We were told that Boysie had given or sold a piece of his land so that Cheddi could live near to him.
After the land-fill was completed, Dr. Jagan brought a man whose name I remember as Sadhu to build the house, which Dr. Jagan insisted he had himself designed. It was to be a two bedroom house, in which he and Janet, and their two children, were to live permanently thereafter.
It remained a modest house, which I would frequent when my family and I went to live in Bel Air village between 1975 and 1985. At that time Cheddi cultivated a vegetable patch and a variety of fruit trees. The cluster of sugar canes gave the yard the look of his boyhood Port Mourant estate.
Bharrat Jagdeo, the architect of Pradoville One and Pradoville Two, slandered Cheddi Jagan when he compared and likened Cheddi's house to his mansions. He lied when he situate Cheddi's house in Bel Air Park.
It was Bel Air village, on the outskirts of the city, known for cattle-rearing.
The Cheddi I knew and worked closely with, right until his death in 1997, was an honest, modest, frugal leader. As far as I know, the Bel Air house was the only property he had owned. He was incorruptible, and maintained utmost integrity in public life, unlike the crop of pseudo-leaders who have since hijacked his party.
Jagdeo, who had made his tenure as president into a real estate jaunt, cannot compare the modest house of the Jagans with his palaces, and the only reason he could have tried to do so in such a shameless way, is to taint them with his brush of political sleaze.
I bet Cheddi's house, at the time it was build, would cost less than that spent on Jagdeo's pool house, and far less than taxpayers' monies spent to repair or renovate the teeth of ministers, or the equivalent of a month of Jagdeo's presidential pension package!
Shame on you, Jagdeo!
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