Is Christopher Ram a puppet speaking for someone else?

OLD Kai has noticed the big “hurrah” over the granting of a prospecting licence to a Brazilian firm to map the resources of a vast area currently uninhabited in the New River Triangle area. The Guyana Human Rights Association, joined by APNU and now “mouthehprekeh” Christopher Ram has joined in their “scaremongering”, the sky is falling tactics. Now while that might get him more front page time in the Kaieteur News and sell more papers, you have to marvel at some of the things this man utters and which go unchallenged by some very bright reporters over there.
This cabal of anti-Government opportunists  are ready to seize any and everything they can use to attack the PPP/C Administration and of course, a prospecting agreement approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources is now, according to Ram, “a major national security issue”. Ram is quoted as saying that “potential mining in the area will render the border exposed and vulnerable”, as he and his crew accuse the ministry of having intentions of encouraging mining in the area.
Old Kai would like to know where these people were and specifically Ram, when it was announced in 2010 that Guyana had inked an agreement with Iran to map not a section but all of Guyana for our mineral resources utilising their state-of-the art technology?
The point we are making is that each and every country, in this day and age, utilises every and any opportunity to map its resources so it can have a better idea of very important segments of its factors of production. This is even more crucial for future planning. What is so wrong with this? But expect Ram and his crew to have a problem even though the Ministry of Natural Resources is quoted as saying that the “PGGS is a property exclusive to exploration and does not include any mining and or profit-related activities. This is not related in any way to a prospecting licence, mining licence or mining permit, all of which are also done in keeping with the Mining Act and its regulation.”
This now brings us to the question of the patriotism of Ram and company, because as is public knowledge, Suriname has claimed the New River Triangle area as its own, but history and facts confirm that it is unquestionably part of Guyana, in essence “we navel string chuk deh”. So talk by Christopher Ram about how Suriname might get vex because we mapping resources in “our” area comes across as if he is the unofficial spokesperson of the Surinamese. He seems to be their representative.
Imagine, if Guyana had adopted the same strategy that Christopher Ram is calling for now, we would have never won the international maritime tribunal award on the law of the sea against Suriname which confirmed our right to ownership over nearly 13,000 square miles of a resource-rich area on our costal front which is part of the Guyana basin.
Further, even though the Ministry of Natural Resources has indicated that mining is not part of the agreement, one of Ram’s arguments is that mining will pose a threat to the border and security. Ram should know that mining has been a centuries-old tradition along most of our border fronts, including in the contested Venezuela area in the Essequibo. How come he has never expressed similar concerns about such a situation?
He ain’t satisfied being an expert in Law, Auditing and Economics; he now suddenly turns an expert  in National Security and the Environment. Someone should remind him of the ole saying, “Jack of all trades, expert at none.”
It is clear that Ram would be very happy in an undeveloped Guyana, where other citizens are denied an opportunity to maximise their potential; after all, he has been one of the critics-in-chief of all the major transformational projects in Guyana.
This is what Old Kai finds most suspicious as we already have a history of outside interference, whereby the PNC was being paid by the United States of America CIA to destabilise our country and create division.
Hence, it would not be a far stretch of the imagination to think that there are some out there who would feel threatened by a more economically strong and powerful Guyana. Old Kai is wondering if history is repeating itself before his eyes!
Having said that, we have the utmost respect for Suriname and our other neighbours. Even with our historical disagreements, our relationship with our neighbours under the PPP/C Government has been at its highest.
So maybe Ram might not be an emissary of anyone; he probably might just be trying to create tensions with our neighbours as it will fit into his long list of efforts to destabilise the Government.