Dear Editor,
The leadership of this country has no vision, plan or competence to bring this country to a state of prosperity. We have been gifted with natural resources that other countries can only dream of in another galaxy and time. We have gold, diamonds, bauxite, oil, lumber, seafood, land and agricultural products. How is it we are still the poorest country in the southern hemisphere? We have the highest suicide rate, and some of the poorest electricity, water, telephone and internet services, just to name a few. Yet our leaders are content to bask in their glory of 50 years of independence. Are they living in an alternate reality?
Every day you read the news, and they have come up with another senseless policy or explanation for a past mistake. Why do the ABC countries and its diplomats condone and encourage this by giving lip service to the government? And can somebody name a single country that the IMF has turned into an economic success? Why are we still taking advice from these people?
And then there is the whole oil scenario. Can someone explain how are you going to get rich when crude is selling at around US$50.00 a barrel and you don’t have your own refinery? Only simpletons will believe this mumbo jumbo voodoo economics that the Minister is spewing. Oil prices will never go up in the foreseeable future as long as America can produce shale oil. Saudi Arabia will always see the price remain where it is so the Americans cannot expand their shale oil business. Can SN donate a copy of The Economist to the Finance and Natural Resources Ministers?
It is beyond logic that you have the most valuable natural resource, gold, in abundant quantities and you are poor, but you believe that oil will be a magic bullet. The government should take a look at our neighbour and countless other countries that are dirt poor but oil abundant, and I won’t be told that we have the best negotiators. Look at our track record: the parking meters, Guyana Goldfields, Troy Resources, the drugs bond, D’Urban park stadium, Gecom, GTT, and countless others. Who are we fooling? Yes, the poor working people of this country. What a fiasco. I guarantee you if they could all get permanent visas, it would be the President and his ministers alone left in this country.
Editor, you have a civic duty as a leader of a major newspaper to hold the leaders of this country responsible for the economic disaster we find ourselves in. I am also protesting that you only print letters from a set number of people and then throw the odd letter in from a new name.
Yours faithfully,
Aryan Ghosh
