…IMC Chairman queries slothWith the demand for credit in Region Ten exceeding $1 billion, Interim Management Committee Chairman, Orrin Gordon, has expressed total dissatisfaction with the present state of affairs regarding the Linden Enterprise Network” (LEN) which is now functioning in place of its predecessor LEAP (The Linden Economic Advancement Programme), and was expected to have begun extending loans to Lindeners by now.Gordon said that LEN should have already been in a position to ‘lend’ in order to facilitate new businesses in the Region,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, and help consolidate existing ones.“LEN cannot exist on rental fees alone, as is presently happening, the entity has to start lending and earning, but this is not happening; I don’t know why all the procrastination, if one can call it that- why the delay in getting things up and running,” Gordon stated.Gordon pointed out that months after LEAPS ‘departure’, there has been no movement or progress on LEN’s part,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, as no decision has yet been made regarding the latter’s real function.Assets from both LEAF and LEAP have also not yet been transferred to LEN according to Gordon.Even the $50 million which was transferred from Caricom Insurance to the Government, and should have been injected into LEN,Wholesale Jerseys From China, is ‘languishing’ instead of working for the people of Linden.Gordon posited that should the $50 million be injected into LEN, the entity would be in a stronger position, than it presently finds itself in. (which is running on rental fees).The IMC Chairman stressed that the present state of affairs is not healthy for the community. Caricom insurance,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, which formerly managed LEAF, (the Linden Economic Advancement Fund), which was the financial arm of LEAP, recently launched another lending programme in Region Ten.However, unlike LEAF which dealt with micro, small and medium loans ranging from $200,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping,000 to $15 million, the new programme will initially only be financing micro projects, with a ceiling of $500,000.“Now Caricom come, and they doing it— they lending, and LEN can’t start yet! Now I don’t have a problem with them lending,jerseys from china, because Lindeners need all the credit they can get. The $150 million which would be the total fund available to residents of Region Ten (G$100mil from the new Caricom loan programme and the $50 mil) is far from adequate considering our $1billion credit demand. My problem is why isn’t LEN in a position to do the same after all these months?” Gordon queried.He also alluded to the Advisory group which was put in place by LEAP, and worked throughout the years with that entity, but presently has no role to play with LEN. “This group was good enough to work with LEAP. Now what has happened all of a sudden? Are we just going to cast them aside and bring in new people? After seven years we gone right back to square one? This we will not countenance! I have a huge problem with people from ‘outside’ having to make decisions for us!”Gordon said that all issues point to an attitude of contempt for the people of Linden. He added that there seems to be an agenda to fail the community.