Ms Janki is seeking to mislead Amerindian people

Dear Editor, I refer to an article by Melinda Janki on carbon credit deals violating the constitutional rights of Amerindians.

Yet again, another commenter has added to the extensive debate on Guyana’s Forest Carbon Credit. She joins her colleagues: Janet Bulkan, the AFA, and Nicholas Fredericks, among a few others, who are trying to mislead Amerindians by uttering falsehood and seeking to take bread away from my Amerindian brothers and sisters.

Before venturing into the meat of the discussion, may I ask Ms. Janki what are the options to gain more benefits for Amerindian people? Does she have a proposal? The VP is on record saying whoever has a better proposal for the benefit of the Amerindian people, the Government will con- sider. I have seen none, the Amerindians have seen no other than this carbon trading scheme, but perhaps one is coming from Ms Janki.

It seems that sleeping beauty has arisen, or the dead have come to life. First it was the APA and their conspirators, and our learned legal adviser Ms. Melinda Janki joined the bandwagon.

Ms Janki, may I ask where you currently reside? I rather suspect that, like others, it’s not in the interior of Guyana, but in some other destination, where you enjoy a bountiful dinner of steak and wine while others depend on labba curry and rainwater. I am not surprised.

Ms. Janki’s article is grossly incorrect, misleading and not factual, and her interpretation of the Amerindian Act 2006 on Carbon Rights is misguided,