Forty-seven years ago this month Martin Luther King Jr. uttered the words:
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity”.
Foundation for sustainability
When Martin Luther King Jr mentioned those words he was not speaking about Guyana. He was speaking to his nation, the United States of America (USA), which he was seeking to persuade to abandon what he saw as an unjust war in Vietnam in favour of fixing the injustices of civil rights at home. But for this nation of less than one million, those words ring true today in the face of the surreal economic development that has occurred over the last seven years without real prospects or foundation for