For thirty years I have studied the reasons for failure of a high proportion of “Development” projects in Guyanese Amerindian areas. Your recent coverage of the Tobago Hill aquaculture debacle has enabled me to add one more factor to the long list, to wit, the denial by public agencies of self-evident gaps between objectives and outcomes. Indeed your news and commentary on the case are valuable to those interested in the practice and results of top-down governance.
You may wish to pay similar attention to another project lately approved, for cassava processing in the Central Rupununi village of Moco Moco.
Your scrutiny of its beginnings and its long-term progress may be able to assist that enterprise to become the true success devoutly wished by all, through the application of writing more factual than creative.
Yours faithfully,
Gordon Forte
