Dear Editor
Why is Guyana so often absent from the top tables in Britain?
I am a member of the Caribbean Board which currently advises the British government on matters Caribbean. This week it held its first ever meeting outside London in Birmingham. The round table was packed with representatives of the various diasporas and six current Caribbean High Commissioners. No Guyanese rep.
This followed the even more high-level meeting at the Houses of Parliament in November with Lords, Ladies and Members of Parliament. There ten Caribbean High Commissioners were present and vocal. No Guyana.
In these very troubled and challenging times for the Caribbean and Guyana and with the UK relationship getting more fragile by the day, can we really afford to absent ourselves from so many top tables?
I think not.
Yours faithfully,
John Mair
But John, as the de facto high commissioner you were there!
I guess if you have a Non Diplomat at post as high Commissioner for the pass 15 years + you can make up your own mind about the conclusion. I stand corrected with the amount of years it may be more this must be a Record for any posting my be we have a candidate for a Guinness book of record LOL
TheUK is the most important post for our diplomatic service in Europe but we made political decion not to send a diplomat to this very important embassy.
I guess if we had a certain person as our foreign Minister A Few years ago
We could do anything else LOL
Well, well, well! Do you expect Cde. Jagdeo to be in two or more places at the same time?! What a country!
This government has no clue what it is to run an effective foreign service. No representative at important functions in the UK and then they complain that the CRNM is ineffective for Guyana, what a joke.
Good. Guyana is not in the Caribbean.Politicians decided Guyana was in the Caribbean.That is why Guyana is absent.Guyana is in South America.
Very patriotic comment caesar.
Our Guyana High Commissioner here in the UK (Mr Lall Singh)is not the brightest spark in the box, sad to say.
He is usually found having a cup of English tea(made in Ceylon)and scones with the chaps.Why not? That is the extent of his official representation.
agree ceasar.
What about UNASUR and MERCOSUR?
Good question Refaarm! I can think of quite a few other tables Guyana routinely fails to show up at. Hey, this diplomacy thing is hard work you know. Some of us just aren’t up to it.
Jagdeo is interested in Russia and Cuba
One must be familiar with diplomatic norms before they can man make an effective comment. In a question of priority one weighs , where to be present.john, seem to be worried that Guyana did not show up more than anything else. He failed to mention, what was being given away, to the other Caribbean state.
Foreign representative can be picked from the diplomatic corp or outside.