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Mar 07, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
With the steady decline of the price of sugar and the removal of the European Union market preferential treatment. I do not share the view that we should continue to bail out the sugar industry simply because of political persuasion, an industry will survive on the making of profits. We continue to throw billions of dollars down a dark hole with no evident returns; a Government that continues to walk this path should be blamed for wasting tax payers monies, that could have been used to improve the lives of our young people who are expected to function as the engine of growth of this young developing nation.
Where are the nation’s thinkers? I am surprised that there are so called intellectuals that continue to support the idea of the bail out. With the hope of producing value added products; where are the markets for these products?
With the threat that global warming poses we should be focusing on hinterland development, developing better roads to get into mining areas, employing more young people to build and maintain these roads, ensuring medical personnel are stationed in all mining districts where malaria, dengue and typhoid pose problems, so that treatment is always readily available. Mined out areas can be transformed into settlements with young people developing homes and resorts to accommodate tourists from all around the world and building schools and other social amenities.
It is for this reason that the National Service was established by the great thinker, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, who established portable sawmills and built homes to accommodate pioneers at all national service centers in the hinterland. We must be pioneers to develop our hinterland. I have worked gold and diamonds on the Eping Mountain, getting there took two days through dangerous terrain, but these places can be reached with helicopters quite easily.
Developing hinterland airstrips is a great move undertaken by this Government. While we worry about available land on the coastland, vast expanse of savannah awaits us for cattle rearing, aquaculture and agriculture on a macro scale. Let us remember; it was the pioneers who developed the United States of America. When the time comes let us use our oil wealth to further develop our hinterland, developing the Bartica/ Potaro Road; and the Linden to Lethem Highway will open great opportunities for development along these roadways.
Why are we not able to manage our timber industry without exploiting workers in this industry, providing proper living quarters for them and their families? We do have to get foreign companies to exploit our forest resources? Mazarally, Toolsie and others were doing it long before the coming of Bishanlin. What about our quarry and sand industry? With the lessons learnt how about establishing another glass factory with the available silica sand, do you remember our clay brick factories; we have to begin to think outside of the box.
We must boost the sports and cultural tourism industry. How about developing an art, craft and culture village with buildings where our artists, sculptors, writers and handicraft producers can work and market their produce to locals and foreign tourists. Let’s stop throwing our hard earned tax payers’ dollars down a dark hole of no return.
Ras Aaron Blackman
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