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What now for Jagdeo and his LCDS?

Dec 20, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Guardian Newspaper headline of December 19th screamed, “Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure”.
What now for Jagdeo and his LCDS. This year alone he has personally spent close to G$78 million pursuing this LCDS and this was further supported with G$64 million for the Climate Change Secretariat.
That was over US$1 million to secure US$30 million next year (and we will not get all of the US$30 million since a fair chuck will have to go to the satellite imagery companies in Europe and the EU Consultants).
I expect Jagdeo to return home and blame Obama and the West for his miseries. Reality check No. 1, Obama made it very clear that his number 1 priority is America and he is totally in order to think this way. Reality check No. 2, the people who still live in Guyana continue to have the same developmental needs they had from the point in time when Jagdeo abandoned them for this LCDS. Will he apologise to them for wasting their resources and under-servicing them as a President?
Or is he going to blame someone else as to why the jobs were not created, why the crime situation is not improving, or why there continue to be extensive hopeless among the youths of Guyana.
Guyana has its NDS and we could have easily evolved it into a Green NDS and drive it locally to satisfy the developmental needs of out people, but the LCDS is the power point presentation to impress the world. Well Reality Check No. 3, the world does not need to be impressed by Guyana and its forest, they know what is needed and they will put money for least developing countries (something Jagdeo claimed we are no more).
So all the people whom are burning firewood in poor villages of Latin America, Africa and Asia will benefit from alternative energy funded, built and installed by G-20 countries (however, most of this money will end up in China and the developed world).
The poor countries of these three continents will be paid out of the US$10 billion funds, but according to Jagdeo, we aren’t poor no more. At the 2006 election he boasted that Guyana is no longer least developed.
Well I suspect we are poor and least developed again just for this purpose.
As them boys seh, the master will play the art of begging with the bowl!
Well we must recognise that the IMF economists are not comics, they already know that after the HPIC debt relief, we are no longer least developed since we only pay 4% of our budget towards debt, along with the other factors that disqualifies us from least developed status.
It is time Jagdeo start lobbying the IMF for special dispensation to benefit from this US$10 billion since I am of the firm belief that the world will not do anything serious until 2020 as we all continue to destroy our environment.
In principle, we all will be condemned to suffer because of our bad ways today since we are still littering, burning fossil fuel (GPL is the biggest culprit in Guyana), do not recycle enough, have not built enough alternative energy sources (I trust Winston Brassington pull off this hydro project) and continue to love our fuel guzzling car.
We have a simple choice, individually start to buy hybrid cars, recycle more and invest in alternative energy or suffer at the hands of nature as she rebels against the abuse she continue to face at the hands of mankind.
Sasenarine Singh

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