The EDC could have applied “best practices” in managing the project at the start. But Stokes, a professionally inept manager, was a friend of Paiva-Weed.

The most fundamental problem in this tragedy is that what was missing (and demanded in any private business venture) is a project timeline with clearly written and MEASURABLE objectives. Key term “measurable”.

The fact that this project was launched without a timeline containing measurable objectives that “Mr Preparation Skills” could have addressed, is the central issue.

That was pure incompetence on the part of the EDC considering the size of the initiative.