The NDC pickup gimmick: A monument to fiscal irresponsibility and technical ignorance

Dear Editor, Sometimes one must admire the government’s creativity in finding new ways to waste money. Just when you think they’ve run out of novel gimmicks, along comes the grand announcement: forty “firefighting pickups” for forty NDCs. A masterstroke of absurdity! It is as if someone walked into a showroom, saw a pickup, and declared, […] The post The NDC pickup gimmick: A monument to fiscal irresponsibility and technical ignorance appeared first on Kaieteur News.


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