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May 15, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
According to President Bharrat Jagdeo, Monday May 12, 2008, Kaieteur News “PNCR (is) blind to reality, only knows the language of the streets”.
The President further stated, “I am disappointed that, as a serious party, they only know the language of the streets, rather than trying to co-operate and deal with the situation, as so many opposition parties in the region are doing”.
The President was quite right in his statements; the development of our economy is not a task merely for the government.
There is no magic formula or blue-print for achieving success in developing our economy. Success will be earned by the constant and strenuous application of our commonsense and our physical energies to solving the numerous problems which will inevitably confront us on the way like high oil prices, high food prices, etc.
And success will not come easy on terms as the PNCR think. We must be prepared for a long, difficult and often dangerous struggle in which we will, of necessity, meet with setbacks and disappointments.
But given our genuine commitment to the cause, we must win out in the end. For our cause is worthwhile; it is nothing less than a struggle to liberate ourselves from the shackles of poverty and brutish indignities.
Given our resource base, we in Guyana are in a fortunate position to break the cycle of low production and achieve the goal of our economy. But we have to gear ourselves for the task including the opposition parties. Given our endowment of extensive and rich agricultural lands, it is a matter of commonsense to make the expansion of the agricultural sector one of the main planks of our development strategy.
Notwithstanding the extensive news coverage everyday to the World Energy Crisis, the most important crisis facing the world is that of the adequacy of food supply.
The FAO uttered grim warnings over a decade ago of an impending food crisis which will afflict the world throughout and beyond.
The high cost of living is a national and international problem and the government can’t do anything about the price of fuel.
Mohamed Khan

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