Former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday laced into analysts who he charged used “charlatan economics” to kill the Amaila hydropower project and he said that the country had lost a major chance to advance its economic development.
Jagdeo, under whose administration plans for the Amaila project began in earnest, described the stalemate following the pullout of Sithe Global, as a significant loss to the entire nation due to “partisanship and ignorance”, the Government Information Agency reported yesterday.
GINA said that Jagdeo was delivering brief remarks during the closing