US envoy pledges assistance in prison management

This is great news.

welcome to prison for profit....

The US needs to manage its own prisons.  Guyana should not look to the US with regards to managing prisons. In the US this is just another industry.  Guyana needs to industrialize the economy, not the prisons.

For profit prisions are a Regan era invention.  They are on their way out

For profit is much wider than the prisons.  There is a whole legal industry solely existing on petty crime.  Furthermore, it has served well as an anti-civil rights force.

So that's the Jaguar on the wall in the picture.  What an idiot Ramjattan is.  I was hoping that this guy would have been the person to keep APNU decent, but it looks like that was just a dream.  I never had faith in Moses.

It is not Ramjattan alone. It is a pervasive insensitivity to the suffering of animals. If a guyanese sees an alligator, they kill it, a snake that's dead too. No one ever broaches the idea of removing t he critters to new areas where they will be safer from people.

Dogs are not taken care of. They roam all over the place and are habitually in for a stoning by kids or adults alike. We are cruel and insensitive. That skin on the wall would be revolting to anyone here but it is just decoration there. I believe it is well known that a jaguar was held in a cage in tiger bay for quite a while and no one ever went to rescue it. 

Have you ever been working the field and got confronted by these "critters", split second it's you or them.

anacondas don't want nothing to do with you. Alligators are not in the hundreds. They care little of you unless you happen on their nest. And yes, I have seen them by me. In the interior I have seen the black caimans and anacondas and the native people do not kill them. On the coast not a pika or spurwing has a fighting chance. Robins are gone, the yellow belly bird they called plantains are gone, blue sackis are a rare thing and even the kiskadees are a rare sight. Robins used to darken the skies when I was a kid and so did plantains. Herons, egrets, all seem to be making a rapid exit. 

Ohhh rasss ethnic cleansing

It is true about the killing of wild creatures with no thought given.

I don't recall robins in Guyana. It is true about the killing of wild creatures with no thought given.

In our estate robins used to be by the thousands. They loved the newly ploughed fields. They have almost crimson breasts and not like the ones here that are more orangish. 

We should not kill these creatures. There are lots of rabbits and red and grey foxes among other critters like racoons and lots of deer around me.  We even have a white one ( turned speckled now he is bigger).

My Chinese friend  was completely astounded that she can see so many  animals from the poach.  She said that could not exist in her area of china. She is from outside Beijing. She said they would all be eaten. I think that is what is happening to our animals.

Spraying the newer pesticides took care of the birds on the coast. The migratory birds no longer stop because the villagers would go our at night with flashlight and cast nets and catch them by the hundreds.

There were robins in Guyana. In 1960-61 I used to shoot them with a Daisy air-gun, then roast them between two claybricks. They were plentiful along Uitvlugt railway line, in the cane fields and Stewartville pasture which was then vacant scrubland, now taken over by houses.

their were thousands by us. The village folks used have a bunch of kids knocking pans and driving them in the direction where they had a  shrimp  seine on two bamboo poles and would simple pull it up so the birds fly into it and then drop it. They also used a six feet piece of barb wire and simply swing it into the swarm of birds. They usually get quite a few of them with each throw.

You guys saying people actually eat robins? Dam, I had pigeon and I felt sad one bird was just a mouthful.

The university of Guyana graduated lots of sociology students who can be train to manage the Prisons.  How many are there in Guyana?

Robin was probably one really happy bird.

True, but the little rustic farmer have no time to ask, so the shoot first and ask later.  Now, on the harmless little birds, I agree, they never were a threat.  Maybe they emigrated, like so many citizens, to Brazil.

During the starving era under the old PNC, Guyanese experimented with everything for protein.  Then it became a habit and the rest is history.

Oh Please! Y'all were currying rodents and crekateh long before Burnham time. 

Not sure, I never had pig curry!