The PNC/R at a news conference at its Congress Place, Georgetown, headquarters Thursday, questioned the Government's response to BK International's liability for the heavy losses suffered by the State, the East Demerara Water Conservancy and hundreds of villagers in the Cane Grove area.

"The Government's response to BK International...appears to be quite unconvincing; we are probably witnessing a farce," PNC/R leader, Mr. Desmond Hoyte charged.

"It is more likely than not that BK International will end up without having to pay compensation and will continue to receive huge juicy contracts from the Government," he suggested.

"And people will continue to shrug their shoulder and take refuge in the common remark, 'This is Guyana'," he asserted.

According to him, BK International was still receiving government contracts and was constructing a large building on the reserve parallel to Mandela Avenue, Georgetown.

"They have not applied for or received permission to build from the competent City Council authority; but they are building, notwithstanding," Hoyte alleged.

"We are yet to see the City Council's agents, hammer in hand and backed up by a detachment of shotgun-toting City Constabulary, arrive to demolish the structure - as we have often seen when less well-connected citizens break the city by-laws by erecting structures illegally," he said.

Early on November 3 last year, the rehabilitated conservancy dam at Flagstaff was breached plunging some 400 residents of Cane Grove under some four feet of water.

Visiting the areas at the time, President Bharrat Jagdeo had promised that those responsible would have to pay.

He appointed a team to investigate the breach, and based on the report submitted by this probe team, the contracting firm, BK International, and the National Drainage and Irrigation Board of the Agriculture Ministry were found to be culpable.