Jagdeo says of analysts: ‘They killed the hydro’

Bharrat Jagdeo

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