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The Cryptomnesiac nature of Granger
DEAR EDITOR,
I am referring to an article published in another newspaper on Tuesday September 24, 2019 under the headline; “Norway releases US$50M in forest funds to Guyana”.
The article exposes the Cryptomnesiac nature of Granger.
Editor, I would like to give some context to my conclusion of Granger’s Cryptomnesiac.
On November 9, 2009, then Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo and Norway’s Environment and Development Minister Erik Solheim signed a letter of intent where Norway will financially support Guyana if the country succeeds in preserving the country’s large rainforest areas.
That letter of intent was a show of support from Norway towards the world renowned Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), conceived by Dr. Jagdeo, which contains measures to reduce deforestation and forest degradation as part of the global efforts to fight climate change.
As a matter of fact, it was the then opposition APNU and AFC that sought to discredit and criticised the agreement. Then AFC leader, Khemraj Ramjattan and a number of others who paraded themselves as environmental and social activists, back in 2011, even wrote the Norwegian government asking that the funding be suspended on the basis Guyana was not achieving its targets set out in the agreement.
Today, the very cabal is seeking to take credit for an initiative they played no part in.
However, this is nothing new for the APNU/AFC. The Granger administration since 2015 has a history of taking credit for projects and programmes they inherited from the PPP/C.
The East Bank Four Lane Highway, the East Coast Four Lane Highway, the West Demerara Road Project, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, East Coast/East Bank Road link, the Sherriff Street Road Expansion Project and the US$30M Sophia Road Project are just a few of the major initiatives that the APNU/AFC inherited from the PPP/C and are now parading as though they conceptualise these transformational projects. These projects have been subject to mismanagement, maladministration, delays and corruption under the APNU/AFC.
But, this is the very nature of a Granger gang, which seems to have been on developmental birth control since 2015, having failed to conceive a single new idea that can transform the lives of Guyanese.
The citizens of this country must continue to see Granger and his gang for what they are – a group of incompetents who are hanging onto power to continue to pilfer the treasury while Guyanese suffer.
Yours respectfully,
Joseph Hamilton
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