“Problem, Response, Solution.”

Oct 08, 2011 Letters

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Dear Editor,
There are a lot of grand conspiracy theories going around the world today, and these are increasingly noticeable in DVD documentaries that are awash in this country.
The theme of these documentaries, whether they are factual or fictional, tend to paint a very grim picture of the world we live in today, and an even grimmer picture of the impending years ahead.
But all these doomsday scenarios tend to have one common force of evil at its root, The ‘Illuminati’, whoever they may be, if they do exist.
A friend of mine who is an addict to viewing of these said documentaries, has intimated to me that there is a common thread of execution in order to achieve the hidden agendas of this shadowy organization, and it is this: Create a problem which produces an expected response, then provide a pre-determined solution.
Now to bring my case home in the context of my beloved country Guyana, I must first let you know that although I am a Guyanese who lives abroad, I have visited my homeland about once a year for the past twenty years or so.
This year’s visit for me was very troubling, and I am not even seriously considering the unsanitary state of various areas in the capital, Georgetown, where garbage is not being collected, or the drains are not being cleaned, period – a case in point being Regent Street where many individual business concerns have raised the height of the concrete pavement in front of their place of business in order to keep out flash floods resulting from a mere fifteen minutes of heavy rainfall.
I just want to touch on the food security situation, dealing specifically with the scarcity of poultry products and the resultant price hikes.
First of all, although I may not be able to prove it, I do have a gut feeling that this entire situation has been meticulously contrived by evil people in high places. Being a Christian, I am reminded of verse 12 of Ephesians Chapter 6 which says: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”.
As far as my memory goes back, and that was since I was a boy, Guyana was always self sufficient in poultry products. I could remember the days of Correia’s poultry business and Full-o-Pep feeds, and I am certain that in the natural order of progression, many other such productive entities have sprung up in Guyana over the years.
Also we know that over the last thirty years, Guyana’s population has not grown significantly, so what really is the problem?
My theory in this whole matter is represented by the problem, response, solution formula. I live in a Caribbean island and I know for a fact that the majority of meat products, including and especially chicken to the value of millions of dollars, are imported frozen in boxes.
There is popular feeling, and not so uncommon knowledge, that many of these boxed products are kept in huge storage facilities for many years, waiting to be exported to unsuspecting consumers, especially in the developing areas of the world.
Guyana is one market which this junk food has not yet penetrated, but to my mind this is about to change. Why? What is now happening represents the classic problem, response, solution, scenario?
Firstly, whoever is at the bottom of this situation has skillfully contrived the shortage, and this is the problem.
Secondly, the ordinary Guyanese people who are already under great financial strain to live at a decent level now have to pay much higher prices for poultry products.
Now you may be saying that the people can switch to fish which is cheaper. Not so, as the demand switches to fish, which demand is becoming greater than the supply, the fish price has also risen significantly. Where you were getting about ten bangamary for five hundred dollars two years ago, you are now getting five and the people are crying out, this is the response.
This now sets up what will appear to be a saviour to the poor, struggling, honest, people of this country.
The importation of cheap frozen poultry products, The solution.
As a result the multinational exporters will have one more market to control and manipulate, the fat cat importers in Guyana will get fatter and richer.
The local poultry industry will never rebound because it would not be able to compete with the cheap, imported frozen products, and Guyanese consumers will be exposed to many new diseases, including a variety of cancers.
In summing up, I will conclude that this my beloved country is on a rapid downward spiral, while those in authority pay no heed. To my mind, what is lacking in Guyana today is effective, dedicated, leadership, especially by those who are supposed to oppose what is happening in this once beautiful country. They seem to lack vision and in general, do not seem to have a clue as to what is going on.
Finally, I feel that it is God alone that can help the poor Guyanese people for it seems no one else will.
Concerned Guyanese

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