I HAVE lived in the United States for several years.

This incident of the LEAD Project, the Government of Guyana and the US embassy should never have occurred over a matter which is so marginal and peripheral to Guyana and the US’s interests and policies. This project is worth a mere million dollars and the scenario it has evoked is incomprehensible.
And the opposition parties, regrettably, keep assiduously stoking the fires with some top brass in these parties boasting of how they have the highest embassy officials in the palm of their hands. They have a callous unconcern at the unjustified odium and embarrassment they are bringing down on the embassy and its officials and are only concerned with what they consider their own interests.
This ragged unpleasantness could be checked forthwith if the Government of Guyana and the embassy immediately announce that they would be entering into serious discussions on re-working the project and making it acceptable to all. The warm and happy US-Guyana relations would again be restored and those responsible for US and Guyana diplomacy would savour the glory of their achievement.

V. REDMAN