Dear Editor,

WITH considerable disappointment, I ask what has happened with this year’s ‘Green Conference and Expo’?Thinking that the Georgetown Municipality was serious about greening our city and making it a model to other towns in Guyana, thus supporting the President’s initiative of a green economy, I kept passing by the Independence Ground, hoping to see them setting up again for this year’s edition of the Green Conference and Expo, but this seems not to be.

The City Council needs to be a little more persistent than this. Not because its first conference and expo last year was an abysmal failure means that that body should give up and not have it again. It is an important concept that should be developed.

What City Hall needs is experienced and skilled events coordinators, so that its personnel would not try to do it themselves, as they lack the knowledge in this subject area and the competence in planning and coordinating an Expo. It was much too expensive a venture, when it should have been a profit-making venture.

There is GuyExpo, the Building Expo, the Wedding Expo etc; so why no Green Expo?

Best regards,
DEODARIE PUTULALL