Dear Editor,
Mr Christopher Ram’s article ( SN Business Page, July 13 2008) brought a smile (albeit a sad one) to my face with his revelation that the QAII deal necessitated the importation of sixty-six toilet sets – perhaps to cope with the s—- generated from this deal? Probably a way of improving workers’ production – of course due to less waiting time for a free cubicle?
But on a serious note, I am puzzled that the Ministry of Agriculture has not been strenuously promoting composting as a way of both reducing dependence on ever more expensive fertilisers and the rubbish generated by human inhabitants. Composting and recycling are promoted in England where I have lived and gardened, and they have managed to appeal to the average gardener there – also most local councils have recycling and composting centres. I can say from experience that household rubbish is reduced by at least a third.
Apart from apathy, laziness and ignorance, is there any reason why the average Guyanese household could not follow suit?
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
