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Mr. Singh should make up his mind and engage in meaningful discussions

Aug 16, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr. Sasenarine Singh seems to be mired in confusion in his letter in the Kaieteur News edition of August 13, headed, “Where is Guyana’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt?”
First off, Todd Morgan is alive and well and living in Guyana.
But Singh, who probably fancies himself a potential Franklin Delano Roosevelt, chooses to stay in Manchester in the United Kingdom, instead of being in his homeland where he can best make his contributions to national development.
And he has sunk into incoherent babbling.
First, he attacked Guyana’s draft Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) as a pipe dream, claiming it’s only good as a theoretical document for university students.
Now he’s saying a top team should be assembled to lobby developed countries to make it fly. If he claims it’s no good, how can any top team help to make it fly?
He has also shifted gears – from attacking the LCDS he has drifted to political excursions.
Mr. Singh should really make up his mind about what’s on his mind and engage in meaningful discussions.
Why is he making a comparison between the LCDS and the National Development Strategy (NDS)? The NDS has not been dumped.
And what is his alternative to the LCDS if it fails? He has not made any.
He returns to his claim that the LCDS is all about “personal aggrandizement” and “selling one’s personality”, referring to President Bharrat Jagdeo’s efforts in lobbying the Guyana model.
The President has been in the forefront of the lobbying efforts by virtue of his office and the recent North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) poll testified to how very popular he is among Guyanese. He is so popular that although the current Guyana Constitution precludes him for running for a third term as President, voters overwhelmingly prefer him to continue as head of government.
Mr. Singh’s reference to the PPP and the PNC is befuddling.
The LCDS is not about political parties – it’s a draft strategy that is visionary and projected to unfold in the long term long after President Jagdeo would have left office.
Mr. Singh talks about “my people” losing opportunity after opportunity.
So why does he not seize the opportunity and articulate his position on a better road ahead?
He really should get a grip on reality.
Todd Morgan

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