The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says that the country needs a new relationship with water and it charged that environmental priorities are being eclipsed by an economic strategy of incessant exploitation of natural resources.
A press release from GHRA on Thursday marking World Water Day 2014 said “Although in Guyana our relationship to water is the most crucial single issue determining our future, the best ecological interests of Guyana are not receiving the priority they deserve”.
It said that the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) itself seems to have been a casualty of unregulated mining. Launched three years ago as the over-arching framework for development, thereby projecting the impression that Guyana was a leader in climate change strategies, the LCDS now appears relegated to
