Old Eco-Trust Society Press Release from 2015

 

Eco-Trust Society Press Release

The University of Guyana is wasteful, polluted, energy inefficient, with a considerable carbon footprint, and blatantly disregards the environment. 

 The University’s Environmental Policy Statement stipulates its position regarding the environment stating, "This University shall seek to promote greater environmental awareness through its curricula; it shall endeavour to reduce any damaging environmental impacts from its institutional community practice. The University shall promote conduct that enhances the health and environmental safety of its inhabitants and surroundings.” 

To many, this ‘Environmental Policy Statement’, as the name suggests, is just a statement, words with no weight as with many other policies, statements and issues. These statements are forgotten words from a time long gone, a whisper on the walls of the library. This statement and several other policies need to be reformed and ENFORCED.

 Our backup generator is a major pollutant, leaking oil onto the field and drains and bellowing fiendish black smoke into the air. 

There is no equipment of any sort in the Geography lab to be used to pursue environmental studies.  

The University is millions of dollars in debt to ‘Guyana Power and Light Inc.’, yet the campus is populated with incandescent light bulbs, old inefficient appliances, and other electronic equipment. Many classrooms need bins and to be redesigned with necessary ventilation. The lack thereof results in hot, humid conditions, and loud, distracting, energy-consuming fans are installed in some of the classrooms. 

The University also has a thriving ecosystem, with serpents, canines, equines, and a barrage of insects, with the most notorious being the bees, flies and mosquitoes. The University needs to control its resident pest population and promote conduct that enhances its inhabitants' and surroundings' health and environmental safety.

 Eco-Trust Society, the only environmental group working tirelessly on campus, is enraged and is demanding reform to help deal with this blatant disregard for the environment and the student population.

Adrian Inniss, President Eco-Trust Society 

#UniversityofGuyanaStudentRevolution  #RespectOurEducation #RespectTheEnvironment #IAmChange #IHaveAPowerfulVoice #EcoTrustSociety

I'm Guyanese. A young, patriotic Guyanese #painting a Nation

   “It is a shame how many young Guyanese treat the honor and privilege of independence or even voting as something trivial, especially after the pyrrhic struggles of our ancestors, some of whom gave their lives for this freedom and privilege.”

A painter creates,

A painter inspires,

A painter amazes,

A painter motivates,

But more importantly a painter can take a canvas or any surface, regardless of how void, used, stained or battered and be able to put together a composition, a ‘peace’  of art. In this case, make Guyana a working "state of art".

A state where race, religion, region and political ideology are just hues and textures in the composition, not stains and scars. Where country and people are respected and treated as masterpieces not random sketches.

Where social and economic development take place, brush stroke after stroke, simultaneously with care and patriotic interest for all.

I'm Guyanese. A young, patriotic, concerned Guyanese who believes that the youths are an asset that play an integral role in the development of Guyana, but have been too passive and neglected.

I am an ardent supporter of volunteerism, community service and activism. I believe that young people, more than any other "sect" or political party can educe change and stimulate activism. We have seen incidents of this occurring time and time again  world over, for example, in England and more recent Venezuela right next door.

In order for Guyana as a nation to develop and realize its fullest potential, the youths must have a genuine concern for our home, communities and country. We need to become a lot more active through being involved in small community groups and being, invited to participate and contribute in national dialogues, consultations and conversations on pertinent issues affecting both youth and country.

We must be involved in making meaningful contributions to this process and have our ideas, thoughts, and actions reflected in the strategic plans and policy framework which will help to improve Guyana for the benefit of all its people.

As young people we need to motivate ourselves to do more, have visions, sketch out new paths and perspectives.  A painter can create moods that heal souls, and lift spirits. We need to be entrepreneurs, create jobs, come together, collage and sculpt new industries colored with opportunities.

It’s a shame how many young Guyanese treat the honor and privilege of independence or even voting as something trivial, especially after the pyrrhic struggles of our ancestors, some of whom gave their lives for this freedom and privilege.

Come on, let us be expressionist! We need to be active, creative and compose a Guyana in harmony!