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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
10GEORGETOWN3	2010-01-28 21:38	2011-08-30 01:44	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	Embassy Georgetown

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O R 282138Z JAN 10
FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0165
INFO EC CARICOM COLLECTIVE
HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
DEPT OF LABOR WASHINGTON DC
MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION WASHINGTON DC

C O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 000003 
 
 
SENSITIVE 
NOFORN 
DEPT FOR WHA/CAR  - SEAN WHALEN/WILLARD SMITH 
AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN PASS TO AMEMBASSY GRENADA 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/01/28 
TAGS: PREL PGOV ENRG ECON IR GY
 
SUBJECT: Pol/Econ Round-up January 11-January 28 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Karen L. Williams, Charge d'Affaires, DOS, Exec; 
REASON: 1.4(B), (D) 
 
¶1.      (U) This periodic reporting cable highlights developments 
in Guyana's politics and economy affecting Department strategic 
objectives in country and throughout the Caribbean basin. 
 
JAGDEO'S FIRST VISIT TO IRAN January 20-21 
 
¶2.      (C) Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 
Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, told PolChief on January 21 that 
President Bharrat Jagdeo arrived in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday, 
January 20 for two day meetings with senior Iranian officials 
including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  Discussions 
focused on Iranian investment in key Guyanese sectors including 
agriculture, energy, and mining (septel to follow).  The visit 
concluded with the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) 
by Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and her Iranian 
counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki.  Foreign Minister Rodrigues-Birkett 
told Charge on January 28 that media reports claiming Jagdeo was 
"bashing the U.S." in Iran or that Guyana plans to "go nuclear" are 
baseless. 
 
 
 
CANEFIELDS FOR HOUSES SCHEME RAISES CONCERNS 
 
¶3.      (C) On January 11, several opposition members of Parliament 
walked out over Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali's 
supplementary budget proposal to transfer GYD4 billion (USD20 
million) to financially troubled Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) 
in exchange for land along the East Coast Demerara intended for 
17,000 new housing developments. During the opposition's absence, 
the PPP majority passed this measure. Opposition party members 
including PNC-R Chairman Robert Corbin called on the Auditor 
General Deodat Sharma to investigate over alleged concerns that the 
new allocation would be doled out to politically favored 
contractors. Opposition contacts told Emboffs that subsidizing a 
state-owned enterprise politically associated with the PPP's base 
is aimed at distributing benefits to a mainly Indo-Guyanese 
constituency. Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud told Econoff on 
January 20 that the state-owned enterprise hopes to raise GYD40 
billion (USD200 million) from such sales. 
 
 
 
GUYANA COLLECTS USD1.2 MILLION FOR HAITI 
 
¶4.      (U) Local media reported that a "relief fund for Haiti" 
drive spearheaded by Minister of Human Services and Social Security 
Priya Manikchand has now collected over USD1.2 million.  The first 
shipment of relief materials donated to the National Haitian 
Disaster Relief Committee was shipped on the evening of January 26. 
Another shipment of containers is expected to leave for Haiti on 
Friday, January 29.  Local media reported concerns over 
accountability of relief funds for Haiti. 
 
 
 
GOLD INDUSTRY CHAFES AT PROPOSED REGULATIONS 
 
¶5.      (SBU) Artisanal gold miners reacted strongly to a Jagdeo 
Administration proposal that would require the Guyana Forestry 
Commission (GFC) to review all mining permit applications made to 
the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and compel artisanal 
miners to submit permit applications six months in advance of 
mining operations.  This requirement would effectively give the GFC 
veto power over any new mining in forested areas.  Director of the 
Office of Climate Change Shyam Nokta told Econoff on January 21 
that current regulations do not grant sufficient authority to GoG 
bodies and inserting a six-month lag between prospecting and 
commercial extracting meshes with Jagdeo's Low Carbon Development 
Strategy to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. 
He told Econoff that the new regulations would increase enforcement 
activities against several thousand Brazilian miners estimated to 
be illegally operating in Guyana. 
HORNING

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