I WISH to refer to an article in the Catholic standard under the caption “Death threats to APA head, Government denies involvement” in its issue of Friday 17th December, 2010.
Permit me to state the following in relation to the article: 1. The APA is a threat to no one but itself in our country and President Jagdeo was absolutely correct to dismiss the allegations of government’s involvement in sending a “death threat” to the head of the APA.
2. What death threats?
If Mr. Tony James had received death threats why didn’t he report the matter to the relevant authorities – the police? But instead he ventured into gross dishonesty by linking his so-called “death threats” to his opposition to Guyana’s LCDS to attract International sympathy and a useless and unjustified letter-writing campaign directed to the President of Guyana. The letters received should therefore be quickly deposited in a garbage bin for disposal into the week-end garbage truck.
3. The fact of the matter is that the APA has lost it vicious national and international campaign against Guyana’s LCDS and has never recovered from the shock it rightly received when over one hundred Toshaos (Village Chiefs) signed the National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference resolution in support of Guyana’s LCDS. The “death threats” claim by APA’s head are the APA’s last dying efforts to block international funding to Guyana’s LCDS. But the APA shall fail and will fail in its ugly agenda since it lacks the basis for opposing the LCDS.
4. But the APA will certainly die a natural death in relation to Guyana’s LCDS since its claim about Guyana’s strategy to fight against global climate change is false, misleading and without foundation. The International Donor Community has long recognised the mischievous deception by the APA.
5. The APA’s claim of “death threats” to its leader is nothing but a well planned fabrication to gain cheap publicity both at the national and international level in its failed agenda against Guyana’s LCDS and more so to regain a sense of purpose for its existence.
6. The Government of Guyana under the visionary leadership of President Jagdeo is committed to the social and economic empowerment of Guyana’s indigenous peoples never seen before more so that their participation in such strategy will be guided by the International Rights Principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (F.P.I.C) challenge.