THE Guyana Government is committed to the ideals of sustainable development. We are not prepared to allow anyone to ravage our forests. We are working to improve our capacity to protect our environment. But to do so we need resources – human, material and financial.…. It is therefore a necessary condition for effective environmental protection that countries be free of the strangulation caused by their massive debt payment requirements.
(Dr Cheddi Jagan at the Opening of the Annual General Meeting of the Caribbean Conservation Association August 23, 1994)
