Janette Bulkan promoting self-interest, disregarding facts on forest sector

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,
Why do some newspapers publish letters to promote self-interest and non-nationalistic views? Once again I see Janette Bulkan is running around promoting herself as the self-proclaimed saviour and preserver of Guyana’s forests.
I have not acquired academic qualifications like Bulkan may have, but I have more than 20 years of experience working in the forest sector as a private business which has grown and blossomed into a sound investment. I say this because Janette has always been doing nothing but being critical and negative of persons working in the forest sector, by reasons known or unknown.
The disrespect to the commissioner of forests and the minister of natural resources and the environment in her recent letter is solely due to the lack of information on her part, as it relates to the forest sector. The commissioner of forests, in his detailed response to Bulkan, called on her to visit the Guyana Forestry Commission to be updated on all the clarification she seeks.
However, those within the forest sector know she is living overseas and has no interest in Guyana’s forest sector, but to bring disrepute to the sector and spreading misinformation to settle personal scores.
Further, I am not surprised that Stabroek News tolerated her recent attacks on the commissioner of forests and the minister of natural resources and the environment, when her questions were adequately answered by the commissioner, which was published. Now she, in her usual way, is attempting once again to attract attention to herself by disputing the response and is now sheepishly calling on the National Assembly to waste its time on a non-issue. The National Assembly should be forewarned and not get dragged into her personal vendetta against persons involved in the forest sector.
Despite the commissioner of forests himself extending a personal invitation to Bulkan to visit the Guyana Forestry Commission to be updated on her perceptions of the sector, she still chose, in her letter of May 11, to call for the free flow of information. How much more hypocritical can one get?
I wish to close by requesting that Bulkan take up the challenge of the commissioner of forests to visit the Guyana Forestry Commission to seek her clarification and clear her misconceptions about the forest sector in Guyana.
Sincerely yours,
Vivian Li

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