Dear Editor,
With immeasurable pride I learnt about the most recent preferment of President B Jagdeo to the Offices of the IUCN High Level Envoy for Sustainable Development in Forest Countries and IUCN Patron of Nature. Guyanese of every persuasion cannot fail to recognize the value of these iconic accolades, if only to re-assert their national identity at a time when so many of us have had cause to register the insubordinate treatment to which we have been subjected both regionally and internationally.
His Excellency, President Donald Ramotar could not express better the elation experienced by all Guyana, at home and its global diaspora, when he asserted “It is living proof of Jagdeo’s vision for a new development paradigm, where today’s developing countries lead the way to inclusive green growth”. Four concepts in the foregoing assessment are reflective of the former President’s acumen and gravitas, viz, “vision”, “development”, “lead” and “inclusive”. They formed the fulcrum for Guyana’s unprecedented growth under his invaluable and exceptional stewardship. Fittingly, the world is now his amphitheatre and hopefully, his audience will be more appreciative of his advocacy “for climate justice, … insights and knowledge” as acknowledged by the Director-General, Julia Marton-Lefevre.
Upon reflection, it was a grave pity that the liberalization of the media in our backyard did not commensurately demand or consider it a sine qua non for its operatives/columnists to be possessed of commensurable journalistic decorum.
This new administration must find novel solutions to the unbridled laissez-faire practices of those deviants whose only destination make Boothill a most worthy location for them to re-assemble. The judgment of posterity will indubitably continue to vindicate the global encomia well-earned by this illustrious son of Guyana’s soil.
Yours faithfully,
Justice Charles R Ramson SC, OR
Retired Attorney General and
Minister of Legal Affairs
