LCDS versus brain drain exodus

May 07, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I was most pleasantly surprised when I read the Kaieteur News article titled, “UN Gives President Jagdeo Champion of The Earth Award” on 23rd April, 2010.
To our President, His Excellency Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, I say congratulations! It’s a well deserved recognition after a few years of globetrotting and, if the Alliance For Change is right, denting the nations coffers of hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps even leading into the billions domain.
If I may though Editor, perhaps I can put forward the hypothesis that the exodus and brain drain of Guyanese from Guyana is being reworded here. Allow me to elucidate via the article, “He said for years, the people of Guyana have demonstrated real commitment to the preservation of nature and biodiversity, most notably as it relates to the country’s still largely intact tropical rainforest.” Having read that, I asked myself the following question, how have the people of Guyana demonstrated real commitment to the preservation of nature and biodiversity, most notably as it relates to the country’s still largely intact tropical rainforest? I could only come up with one answer and that is by their exodus of this great land of ours. Ever since I learnt the word “Population” and what it meant, Guyana’s population has been hovering between 700,000 – 750,000 people. The Guyanese population outside of Guyana is larger than within Guyana. I believe that there are more than one million Guyanese in the United States of America alone.
If the Guyanese people had proper jobs and other incentives to get right here in Guyana they would not be queuing up outside of the embassies to leave. If they weren’t leaving then obviously they will need somewhere to stay. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I’m quite sure that we won’t be able to house just that one million alone in the USA from the East Coast of Demerara to Georgetown, to the East Bank of Demerara. If those one million Guyanese were here they would have to branch off from these already densely populated areas. That would mean that they will head into the hinterland to find places to live and sustain themselves, mowing down our still largely intact tropical rainforest as they do so. I ask, Editor, do you think that we would still have a tropical rainforest if all Guyanese from across the world returned home permanently? What would then become of the LCDS?
The LCDS, Mr. Editor, is perhaps the mechanism being used to pull the wool over the eyes of the Guyanese and justify to us and the world the exodus and brain drain of Guyanese from Guyana.
Vydal Jodhan

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