Good governance needed on environmental issues - Dr.Roopnarine

Good governance needed on environmental issues – Dr.Roopnarine

Oct 26, 2013 News

Until and unless there is a regulatory framework including zoning, reliable and affordable garbage disposal systems, and persons who are trained and empowered to impose fines and advise businesses and homeowners, conditions for healthy and peaceful living will continue to be in jeopardy.
This is the view of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Shadow Minister of Natural resources and Environment, Dr. Rupert Roopnarine, in a press briefing yesterday at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition on Hadfield Street.
Speaking to the issue at hand, Roopnarine expounded that one “might respond in disgust to the garbage piling up around and the clogged drains that turn our communities into slush, but there is a real danger that we are becoming so accustomed to these disasters that too many of us now see them as normal, rather than what they are: acts of violence that should frighten us into action. The fact is that most of us live our daily lives in a deteriorating environment.
The uncontrolled and apparently uncontrollable dumping of garbage, the burning of toxic waste, not least the Styrofoam containers that litter communities, and the resultant dangerous pollutants released by garbage burning are features of daily life, particularly if you are not serviced by reliable disposal facilities.”
He reiterated that more than anything else, there is an enduring and urgent need for a governance structure that works “it is not possible to address all these ills without governance structures at the community and local levels. The cry for local government elections is not simply the need to address a longstanding democratic deficit: it is the beginning of the solution to address the monumental work of humanizing our communities across the country” the shadow Minister of Environment related.
He further said “we have an Environmental Protection Agency whose remit must include this but who could not possibly carry out this function without a serious upgrade, a sense of independence and adequate resources. But enforcement alone is not the whole answer.
It is good governance from the community to the nation state that is required. Without this participation of citizens, male and female, young and old, workers and business persons, we cannot begin to remedy the mounting environmental ills plaguing this society.” APNU is calling on Guyanese to write and or come to them to discuss the issues of the environment that concern and affect you. “It is only when those who are elected to represent your interest and protect that of future generations are guided by the realities and aspirations of all Guyanese that we will have an environment fit for life. In this way we will, in the words of the Preamble to the Constitution, “demonstrate our commitment to protect our national environment and endowment” Roopnarine articulated.

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