`At the centre of what amounts to a colossal looting of resources perpetrated on the current and future generations of Guyanese people stands the Natural Resources Fund’
The GHRA has expressed dissatisfaction and alarm at the Government of Guyana’s stewardship of the National Resource Fund (NRF) and worries that current rates of withdrawal may endanger what is made available for future generations.
In a release yesterday, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) likened the government’s approach to management of Guyana’s natural resource ownership and use as more akin to “spreading joy” through cricket, “carousing, corruption, and hand-outs,” than to a national policy.
“In today’s world, a national policy on natural resources is short-hand for how Guyana positions itself in the global and growing confrontation between the billions characterised by all the manifestations of misery, and the elites who control incalculable wealth in a few advanced societies. It is a choice between privatisation, commodification, and exclusion, or cooperation, solidarity, community and trust,” the release opined.
