http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/09/complaints-by-amerindians-at-arau-have-been-investigated/ Guyana News, Sports, Businesss and Entertainment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:03:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/09/complaints-by-amerindians-at-arau-have-been-investigated/comment-page-1/#comment-17571 Guy Marco Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:04:06 +0000 http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=19277#comment-17571 Mr. Woolford with due respect to you and your office - " your beautiful band-aid " to SN about the sore is far from reality. You know very well that your miners generally do not have any respect for Natives living in the area. I read in the news some time back about a miner shooting at an Amerindian woman - thinking was a tapair. Just imagine, if you ever went hunting, that you are hunting. You notice a mobile object - it walks on two feet. How on earth can you 'think that it is a tapair. SN reporter met this woman in the village/farm hut. Her husband is helpless. The miners steal from his farm - but he dare not open his mouth for they might hurt him. May be you are fully aware of this but I had too many divers frineds during my stint in Georgetown who said that they 'bought' (bribed) the Mining Warden/Ranger. Not to mention the environment that is forever damaged. As a photographer I learnt that it does not lie. Instead of taking time to respond to Sn report - I suggest that you /your Commission work seriously with the Gvernment, Ministry of Amerindians Affarirs/Village Touchou/Council with regards to Amerindians / mining in the area. Mr. Woolford with due respect to you and your office – ” your beautiful band-aid ” to SN about the sore is far from reality.
You know very well that your miners generally do not have any respect for Natives living in the area.
I read in the news some time back about a miner shooting at an Amerindian woman – thinking was a tapair. Just imagine, if you ever went hunting, that you are hunting. You notice a mobile object – it walks on two feet. How on earth can you ‘think that it is a tapair.
SN reporter met this woman in the village/farm hut. Her husband is helpless. The miners steal from his farm – but he dare not open his mouth for they might hurt him.
May be you are fully aware of this but I had too many divers frineds during my stint in Georgetown who said that they ‘bought’ (bribed) the Mining Warden/Ranger.
Not to mention the environment that is forever damaged. As a photographer I learnt that it does not lie.
Instead of taking time to respond to Sn report – I suggest that you /your Commission work seriously with the Gvernment, Ministry of Amerindians Affarirs/Village Touchou/Council with regards to Amerindians / mining in the area.

]]> http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/09/complaints-by-amerindians-at-arau-have-been-investigated/comment-page-1/#comment-17538 Irreverend Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:04:06 +0000 http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=19277#comment-17538 Notice the evasive bureaucratese that says much but does not admit to doing much. "GGMC wishes to emphatically state that there are no mining properties within the boundaries of the titled area of Arau. Further, GGMC has stopped holders of mining properties which are outside of the titled area from conducting any operation that would affect the farms or the community or pollute the waters." Nothing said about NO MINING AT ALL! Nothing said about whether miners have obeyed GGMC! Double Double U can sit in his GT GGMC office and spout bureacratese. He doesn't have to live in Arau. Notice the evasive bureaucratese that says much but does not admit to doing much. “GGMC wishes to emphatically state that there are no mining properties within the boundaries of the titled area of Arau. Further, GGMC has stopped holders of mining properties which are outside of the titled area from conducting any operation that would affect the farms or the community or pollute the waters.”
Nothing said about NO MINING AT ALL! Nothing said about whether miners have obeyed GGMC! Double Double U can sit in his GT GGMC office and spout bureacratese. He doesn’t have to live in Arau.

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