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Donald Ramotar, Irfaan Ali and COP26

Nov 03, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Former President Donald Ramotar wrote a letter to the press about the forthcoming COP26 in Scotland. The former President touched on many pertinent issues, especially relating to climate change. The simple cogency and factual data are evidence of good research, which is also demonstrable of obvious concern. This letter is a powerful and excellent exposition. All is not lost; at least, some have not suffered cerebral sclerosis.
In a previous letter, the former President made a declaration stating that the PPP is not a Marxist party. I wish to know if he is the bona fide spokesperson for the PPP, and is he making the declaration officially on behalf of the PPP! Is he a leader, quasi-leader, or whatever, within the PPP? If not, who is? And who is leading whom? I ask rhetorically because I am perplexed and confused.
Mr. Ramotar’s (I shouldn’t say comrade anymore) profound letter is most decidedly at variance with his government role vis-a-vis climate change. I mean they are pursuing fossil fuel “drill baby, drill” when the world is asking and demanding a new paradigm shift in relation to energy. The PPP (like the PNC) has taken the wrong fork of the road, one that will lead to destruction and doom in terms of sustainability and survival of the global biome, going against the grain of what is scientifically and morally correct. They are selling out the country – to put it mildly. Perhaps they should do a refresher course, starting with reading The West on Trial.
Now President Irfaan Ali is in Scotland for the COP26 Meeting. The COP26 is a ‘cop out’. COP has not achieved anything fundamentally pro people in its 26 years of activity. I daresay “they” meet and have a grand time, patting one another, and vying for the best spot in a toothpaste commercial. More of this another time. What will Dr. Ali do or say? Maybe he can show them how to plant seedlings. What kind of message can he send? To be blunt and diplomatically incorrect he can tell them falsehoods, and earn the proverbial hypocrisy adage.

Yours truly,
Gary Girdhari

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