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Vice President Ramjattan says he will not remove hide of national animal

The jaguar skin seen extreme left on the wall of Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan's office. The jaguar skin seen extreme left on the wall of Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan's office.

Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan is defying requests made by Tourism Minister Cathy Hughes and civil society to remove the hide of a Jaguar - Guyana’s national animal, from the walls of his office.

Over the past months several requests have been made and a social media campaign mounted to get the Vice President to remove the animals hide but to no avail.

Ramjattan told Demerara Waves that ther remains that adorn the walls of his office are of “sentimental” value to him.

“That is my personal hide that I had 20 years ago in the chambers of my private practice and there is sentimental attachment,” said Ramjattan.

Asked whether he doesn’t think that having the animal's hide on his wall is improper, Ramjattan responded in the negative.

“What is the impropriety? What about it is improper? The farmers indicated that it killed five animals and they killed it…I will not be taking it down. Absolutely not,” he stated.

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Nehru posted:

DEh Friggin Slave would have shouted " Haul YUh Ass suh" had it been a PPP member calling for the removal!!!  BLOODY BIG MOUTH JACKASS!!!!!!!!!!!

u more stupid than that animal how come nobody did not kill u 

FM
warrior posted:
Nehru posted:

DEh Friggin Slave would have shouted " Haul YUh Ass suh" had it been a PPP member calling for the removal!!!  BLOODY BIG MOUTH JACKASS!!!!!!!!!!!

u more stupid than that animal how come nobody did not kill u 

HEHEHE AHOLE trying to be relevant and pretend he can follow the conversation. YOu SHIT HEAD DUMMY!!!

 

 

Merry Christmas.

Nehru

Ramjattan refusal is an insult to Cathy Hughes, and to the Granger. When you break down his statement, he is actually telling the entire country to go suck salt and don't tell him what to do. Dictators don't have sentimental values of anything. what they say goes. 

FM
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Truly, Mr Ramjattan's response is disappointing. If the jaguar's skin has sentimental value, he should mount it in his home. It is no longer cool to display animal skins the way he insists on doing.

Mr Ramjattan is insensitive to his fellow Cabinet minister Cathy Hughes' politically correct appeal and this does not bode well for future cooperation between them. 

One cannot blame a jaguar for killing farmers' animals. When humans encroach on the habitat of wild animals, they must expect the natural consequences. 

FM

If indeed Ramjattan said he will not remove the skin  of the murdered animal then he is an ass. The jaguar is endangered, its public display as trophy disrespects the call to save this majestic animal.  It  is a direct refusal to accept the sanctity of nature it represents. There is no human value to this act except pomposity and vanity in the display of the hide of this noble creature.

It is a top level predator. Its extinction or wanton killing disrupts the food chain. He should take a cue from the removal of the wolf in Yellowstone, the environmental cascade and how quickly their reintroduction restored a natural balance.

Ranjattan will show respect or he will get what he deserves....disrespect. It is the curse of the jaguar....it is in native indian folk belief...a god.

FM

It goes to show the quality of a man, no moral scruples and he can not see the big picture, putting personal sentiment over the good of the nation. Guyana gets the government it deserves as the people voted for change and got exchange + ignorance. 

FM

This exposes the arrogance of a man who is a total disgrace to the AFC/PNC coalition. His actions are disgraceful.

Ramjattan is a confirmed Jackass:

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Guyana pledges to protect jaguars

GUARDIAN UK, FRIDAY 25 JANUARY 2013 --- The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in the Americas but has become vulnerable as expanded agriculture and mining carves away at their fragmented habitat.

Leaders of the government's environment ministry were signing an agreement with the New York-based conservation group Panthera, which is trying to establish a "jaguar corridor", a network of pathways that would link core jaguar populations from northern Argentina to Mexico. Guyana is pledging to ensure the protection of jaguars, the national animal that is a near-threatened species.

The South American nation, with some of the region's least spoiled wilderness, joins Colombia and nations in central America in recognizing the corridor and agreeing to work towards the long-term conservation of jaguars, according to Esteban Payan, regional director for Panthera's northern South America jaguar program.

A network of cameras equipped with motion sensors and fixed to tree trunks has revealed tantalizing glimpses of sleek, solitary jaguars slinking through Guyana's dense rainforests and vast grasslands stretching to the country's border with Brazil.

Scientists reported finding a relatively healthy jaguar density of three to four animals per 161 miles in Guyana's southern Rupununi savannah. That means that preserving grasslands are as important to conservation of jaguars as protecting the dense rainforests, they say.

Evi Paemelaere, a Belgian jaguar scientist with Panthera, said villagers in remote spots in Guyana have helped her set up cameras along the roads and hunting trails that the big cats like to travel on.

"Amerindians are very keen on being part of the project," she said from the capital of Georgetown.

Jaguars once roamed widely from the south-western United States to Argentina, but have lost nearly half of their natural territory and have disappeared altogether from some countries.

Heavy hunting for their spotted coats decimated their numbers in the 1960s and early 1970s until the pelt trade was largely halted. No one has any reliable estimates of how many jaguars are left in the wild, where they prey on peccaries, tapirs and, as they are powerful swimmers, river turtles.

Guyana, a country roughly the size of the US state of Idaho where most of the 756,000 inhabitants live along its Atlantic coastline, has been widely recognised for balancing progress with preservation. In 2009, it began a low-carbon push aimed at maintaining very low rates of deforestation and combating climate change, while also promoting economic development. It could receive up to $250m from Norway by 2015 as an incentive to protect its forests through sustainable mining, timber harvesting and other projects.

Alan Rabinowitz, Panthera's CEO and a zoologist whose research in Belize in the 1980s led to the creation of the world's first jaguar preserve, said Guyana's signing of the jaguar agreement "demonstrates the government's continued commitment to its legacy of conservation alongside economic progress and diversification".

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A pledge to protect the jaguars and a govt minister refusal to acknowledge the pride of our national animal is a slap in the face for the conservationists and all of Guyana. This is very shameful to say the least. Isn't this falls under the code of conduct for government officials? 

FM

Thanks to the PPP the population rebounded from what the inherited from the PNC 23 years ago. Now we have the afc/apnu trying to take credit for the healthy Jaguar population while Ramjattan parade the elegant animal's carcass as a trophy on his wall. To this day he can not articulate what exactly is the sentimental value of hanging the skin of this endangered animal in the govt office he is currently squatting in.  

FM

RAMJHAAAAAAAATAN AND HIS SUPPORTERS ON GNI ARE ALL ALIKE. sOME OF THEM GOT REAL QUIET LIKE THE sLAVE mOSES.  aL yuH GO BACK AND LOOK AT kn BEFORE mAY 11 AND YOU WILL SEETHE SLAVE BIG STUPID, LYING MOUTH DAILY!!1

Nehru

I am still wondering what makes a dead animal's skin so sentimental to this insensitive moron. Is this how he wants to promote Guyana's majestic beauty? They should run him out of town like they did to the dentist who killed Cecil the lion.

FM
Nehru posted:

That will not happen.  Remember INCOMPETENCE breads INCOMPETENCE. The PNC needs the 2 House Slaves for decorations and to clean House!!!

Warria and Redux will volunteer to help.

FM
skeldon_man posted:
Nehru posted:

That will not happen.  Remember INCOMPETENCE breads INCOMPETENCE. The PNC needs the 2 House Slaves for decorations and to clean House!!!

Warria and Redux will volunteer to help.

Trust me ....he gon remove it when pressure builds and he cum to him senses. Its unbelievable that a vice-president of a country tek he rass an eye pass all dem animal lovas round de world.

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VishMahabir posted:
skeldon_man posted:
Nehru posted:

That will not happen.  Remember INCOMPETENCE breads INCOMPETENCE. The PNC needs the 2 House Slaves for decorations and to clean House!!!

Warria and Redux will volunteer to help.

Trust me ....he gon remove it when pressure builds and he cum to him senses. Its unbelievable that a vice-president of a country tek he rass an eye pass all dem animal lovas round de world.

Ramjhaaaaaatan telling Kathy Hughes and Brigadier Granger " HAUL AL YUH ASS SUH, DUMMIES"

Nehru
Drugb posted:

Thanks to the PPP the population rebounded from what the inherited from the PNC 23 years ago.

What proof do you have of this?  Or is your drug addled brain, and emissions from your lower orifice at work again?

FM

Read and weep, the PPP took steps early on to protect the jaguar, even back in 2009.  http://www.theguardian.com/env...dges-protect-jaguars

Guyana pledges to protect jaguars

The South American nation is in talks to establish a 'jaguar corridor' a network of pathways that would link core populations
 
A 'Jaguar', one of an endangered native species of Amazon fauna, Brazil
Jaguars once roamed widely from the south-western United States to Argentina, but have lost nearly half of their natural territory and have disappeared altogether from some countries. Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in theAmericas but has become vulnerable as expanded agriculture and mining carves away at their fragmented habitat.

 

FM
Drugb posted:

Read and weep, the PPP took steps early on to protect the jaguar, even back in 2009.  http://www.theguardian.com/env...dges-protect-jaguars

Guyana pledges to protect jaguars

The South American nation is in talks to establish a 'jaguar corridor' a network of pathways that would link core populations
 
A 'Jaguar', one of an endangered native species of Amazon fauna, Brazil
Jaguars once roamed widely from the south-western United States to Argentina, but have lost nearly half of their natural territory and have disappeared altogether from some countries. Photograph: Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

The lushly forested nation of Guyana on Thursday joined a regional pact to protect jaguars, the elusive spotted cat that is the biggest land predator in theAmericas but has become vulnerable as expanded agriculture and mining carves away at their fragmented habitat.

 

Druggie I feel your pain. You only attended school in August and you have become a rabid drug addict since then.  So you think that "in talks to establish" means that the PPP did something.  No they babbled about something.

 

Try harder.  You have furnished no proof.

FM

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