Observers of the record of successive political administrations in the matter of sustained commitment to the development of the country’s hinterland communities, have left careful observers with ‘little to write home about.’ Over time, much of the economic lifeblood of those communities has simply been left to drain away.
To persuasively make the point one need look no further than what had once been the Rupununi’s thriving cattle industry but which, these days has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. Even now, if you raise the question of the likely prospects for the revival of the Rupununi ranches with state officials who ought to be ‘in the know,’ you are likely to be met with mostly quizzical stares. From a policy perspective there exists, mostly, a kind of ‘fuzziness’ that passes for an official response.