We have the internet, which is a medium that can bring us and our ideas together instantanously, but we are not useing it for that purpose. We need to remove our minds from you PPP and you PNC.

Forbes projected the right ideals of sustainable living, it is us, including myself who failed Forbes, and that is because my mind and our minds were projected on the western way of life, and we used that as the benchmark to condemn everything that he was trying to implement, not our fault, we could not read his mind, and everything we knew then and now came from our western infulence. It is us who are also failing Jagdeo.

We want to live a western way of life, that we can ill afford, we have hired personnel, in the government that sit in an air conditioned office and feel that they are carrying out the functions of their employ, instead of going out into the community and villages everyday and demonstrating what can be done with shovels and pitch forks, but that is not an option, that is not the way it is done in the west.

We all are looking for the opportunity of coming abroad, instead of heading into the interior like the American pioneers once did.

I mentioned horse power, here in America, riding a horse is considered rich and prestigious, and you have to be, to ride a horse. In Guyana it is considered, backward and associated with poverty.

I am not advocating, that anyone should give up an opportunity to come abroad, since it was that opportunity that allowed me the vision to see the many possibilities available in Guyana.

These are not my original ideas, these are ideas and practical systems that some people are applying right here in America, I just examined them and said wait a minute, this can be effectively applied to my country, with a little twist here and there, so I kept them on my computer.

The only ideas that we latch onto are the ones that the media project into our consiousness, stop smoking, stop drinking alcohol, stop using drugs, save a tree or a frog. Ok then what, we are still starving in a land that is sparcely occupied on the coastline, and this should not be.

Joe.

I will express my opinion, without fear of favour….there is nothing you can do about that.

I see your name with a US flag……IF, you are smart, you will know that represents, among other things , ” freedom of speech.”

I continue to make contributions to Guyana from the USA.

I was in Guyana during June 2007, with help, for the less fortunate.

Can you say the same, rather than your words in this forum ?

PNC had its turn at governing.

Since 1992 PPP is in power = 16 years.

PPP should have meant , Peace, Progress, and Prosperity, for all, in reality, only PPP for friends and party supporters.

Time for a change to, new energy, new leaders, new plans, IF, this is voters’ wishes in 2011.

An OPEN, pro business government will attract global business persons, to invest in Guyana.

Another excellent and very intelligent comments workable in Guyana.

Entrepreneurs are global weath creators.

Peter Ramsaroop in Guyana, , is very interested in your ” plans and ideas”, please email to : peter.ramsaroop@gmail.com

What is your email address ?

What is sad is that there has been little to no activity from the PNC in Berbice, PPP has full, total reign of power yet Berbice look like a deserted house.

The very same Indo-Guyanese that had to leave Berbice because of the economic policy of Jagdeo government when they gather in New York, Canada turn around and support the PPP. Worse yet they “see” the PNC everywhere—they are so blinded by race that after all injurious economic insults done to us by the Jagdeo PPP, the Indo-Berbicians still blame the worthless, incapable PNC and will still vote for the PPP.

It is more bizarre that they see (according my cousin) Burnham in Obama—and refuse to vote for him—when clearly he has more constructive economic policy. This is how deep Jagan PPP brainwashed our people in Berbice.

Jagdeo and the PPP can destroy the whole of Berbice still our Indo Berbician family will vote for them.

I am really tired of hearing Jagdeo build road and a bridge—as if Burnham did not build roads and more bridges—but the Jagdeo government has zapped all the economic leverage that Berbice used to have and made a dead zone.

With all of this my fellow Indo Berbicians will still vote for the PPP—it is a mental disease.

Mr CN Sharma did speak up what happened -his TV station was closed down for 6 months. The PPP burn down the cane field during the PNC in Office destroy the economy. How innocent do you think the PPP were as Mr Freddie Kissoon Said in his article.

Of course, you can always stand for election yourself, vote for another party, and encourage others to do the same. The parallel is not exact, but if Mr Obama can initiate and run a guerilla style campaign and get elected, then perhaps even our polarized society can have hope.

The question that needs to be asked is, what are the alternatives?Is it new leadership, new government, new elections?

There was this other guy Mark Benchop, who as I have read in SN got into some trouble with the government, was incarcerated then released. Since then I have been reading that he has started a computer school to give free lessons and computer training. Now that’s one small step in the right direction, if more people like him come forward, we will all be able to walk a mile together.

We need a change in the direction of our thinking, no government or politician has ever brought about economic progress anywhere on this planet, they facilitate it. It is up to entrepeneural individuals to create the engines of change and development, not politicians.

How difficult can it be to effectively engage a population that has not increased in size in over four decades? Very difficult if we remain within the mindset and framework of wanting and expecting the political system to provide us with every solution and direction.

There is the Institute of Applied Science and Technologies, they are the ones that need to apply some sort of science and solutions to these problems.

Here is my solution. Have the IAST, build portable sawmills using chainsaws, horse drawn plows and cultivators, horse drawn lumber carriages.We do not need the mechanical gas driven engines to get things started or done, it would be nice if we could afford them, but the horse will work just as well, remember that is where the mechanical engines got their horsepower unit of energy from, and Guyana is a pinprick of a country, no mechanical efficiencies necessary for land development that is local in nature.

Send in teams of homesteaders in the creek areas first to clear the area and cut up the boards and beams for housing material and process the twigs and leaves for later compost. Start building the houses, farms, roads and other infrastructure, using on site materials, (sand ,clay,etc)

Import a bulk shipment of solar cells from China, build your own solar panels.

So there you have it, land, water, electricity, rain and sunshine.

I have blueprints of all of the technologies mentioned above or I can create 3d models of anyone of them.

I want to give these plans and ideas to anyone in Guyana, to help get things moving along, it is the least I can do at this time, otherwise I would come myself and get it all done, it’s a piece of cake.

That is why I placed my name and mugshot on this blog hoping that someone, anyone would take me up on this offer, no takers so far, just a bunch of sorry-ass complainers.

I know we can do much better than that.

Joe.