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May 26, 2011 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I love my country Guyana, but let us call a spade a spade.
Georgetown and its environs have nothing captivating, bearing in mind the clustered sidewalks, clogged drains, piles of garbage, foul language, reckless and discourteous drivers, shacks and stalls, dirty and dilapidated food centres, non working traffic lights and the list goes on. These factors make it hard to compete with the numerous and ever increasing tourism destinations around the world.
If we are not able to have systems in place that would take our visitors directly into our resorts or our interior, then the money the government is spending on tourism should be diverted to developing renewable energy. Renewable energy providing fuel is the way to ensure survival and growth, will reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming.
We could even use our vast water supplies towards renewable energy.
We call Guyana “The Land of Many Waters”. We need to harness the water and convert it to energy.
Brazil, our neighbour, with which we purport to have a strong and developing relationship with, may be able to advise us on this course of action.
They built the world’s most powerful dam in the 1970s and that dam provides the large cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo with electricity.
I know that such an investment would require a huge amount of money and the expertise that we may not have or be able to afford, but we have to take steps now, channeling our efforts, money and resources in that direction.
Our sugar cane could be converted to energy and even our garbage heaps and dump may be used in this way.
This would also combat the distressing garbage build up around the city and prevent continuous investment in our dump site.
Conrad Barrow

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