Two years after Desmond Hoyte proposed an injection of $250 million into Buxton to promote the development of a village in distress, President Jagdeo has described the proposal as a ransom.
At the time the suggestion was made, President Jagdeo made no comment about ransom.
Instead, he travelled to his constituents in Berbice, and then to those in Essequibo to seek their views, he said, and returned to the capital to announce that the people had spoken.
They had rejected the proposals, because there were dozens of other villages across Guyana in a state of underdevelopment similar to Buxton.
I felt then that, while there might have been similarities, Buxton was clearly crying out loudly for attention and that it is the squeaking chair that normally gets the oil.
But Jagdeo's people had spoken. The squeaking chair will have to continue to squeak. The rest is now history.
Marcus
Saturday
06-18-2005