Thursday, March 15, 2012

GUYANA - WHICH WAY FORWARD?

Guyana's sustainable economic advancement depends on several factors: Leadership with vision, commitment and will; and Leadership with balls for radical redesigning, restructuring and development of political, legal and indigenous-market super highways. To achieve such goals, attention and resources must focus on:
  • Creating a hybrid political/parliamentary system
    • Utilize elements of Westminster, Federalist, Canadian, and Indian systems, among others
    • Establishing 6 geographic/political states/provinces that bear functional/governance similarities to US, Canada & India
  • Increasing population through selective immigration
    • Promoting/sustaining economies of scale and economic growth require at least 2,000,000 people
    • Establishing a selective immigration system based on pre-determined market and economic development needs/priorities (not human, economic and environmental rapists or restaurant & night club owners)
  • Enacting laws that empower civilians to bring limited actions against the government and civilians in matters of public interests
    • Social justice necessitates laws and supporting legal sociopolitical structures that empower people, individually and collectively, to act in matters of national interest (such as, curbing abuse of political/functional powers; ending environmental and natural resources rapes)
  • Establishing off-shore banking
    • Billions of dollars that could benefit the national economy in numerous ways remain underground and may disrupt normal financial and economic activities
  • Constructing, incrementally, supportive road networks that strategically link main highways
    • This will speed-up inland expansion, and population increase based on selective immigration & development priorities 
  • Building two other international airports (Berbice and Essequibo)
    • These will lead to upward spiraling tourism and related economic activities
    • Will also boost services and light industry activities
    • Lead to population increase (new migrants and returning nationals)
  • Reducing dependence on fossil fuels
    • Encourage/promote wind power, solar and hydro-power (economically and environmentally beneficial to everyone)
  • Evaluating the contents and relevance of educational programs
    • Review and/or incorporate the teaching of tolerance as an integral subject (Kinder - High School)
    • Evaluate the course contents/programs to determine practicality/relevance to Guyana's immediate and long-term economic/urban development goals/plans (Teacher education, Trade Institutes and University)

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