Several promises have been broken by gov’t on Public Procurement Commission

Dear Editor,

We have been an independent country for close to 50 years, but we remain the disgrace of the Caribbean region and that disgrace has now been accentuated in the last decade under the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime.

To expose the ambitious personal agendas of these misfits, the General Secretary of the PPP said in a newspaper article of March 11, 2010 that “the party [PPP] is working towards the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission”.  The General Secretary of the PPP who is now the holder of the most powerful office in the land promised the people that his party [PPP} will soon be “shortlisting names to be submitted for consideration for the commission”. It has been three years now and the PPP has not submitted any names and has done very little work to support the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission.  We call on the opposition to make sure that the Public Procurement Commission be established.

We ask the Guyanese public to read and pass judgement on these duplicitous acts from the PPP.

In May 2012, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett  in response to Ms. Deborah Backer in Parliament said the Public Procurement Commission would be established by the end of June 2012.  Another broken promise from the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal! It is prudent for the Minister to maintain her integrity and come forward and tell the people the reasons for the delay.

This is one way for her to maintain her credibility which at the moment is at the lowest level just like several others.

The Public Procurement Commission will be a constitutional commission free of the PPP control to ensure that the Guyanese people secure the best value for their money on all public procurements.

This is the time for serious decision-making by the combined opposition about the future of Guyana and its people. The country is sinking very fast. Georgetown is a cess pool of stench and garbage, floods are constant, power blackouts are occurring daily, food prices are out of control, corruption continues unabated, the crime rate is at its highest, no jobs for unemployed youths and the education system is woeful. People are migrating in droves as the country’s infrastructure continues to collapse under this  uncaring and disastrous PPP regime.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Asquith Rose and
Harish S. Singh