The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will likely revisit appointments to various state boards, following the criticisms about their ethnic and gender imbalance.
Governance Minister Raphael Trotman on Wednesday admitted that the process was rushed and signaled that the appointments made public would likely be reviewed as well as the guidelines for selection.
“The willingness on the part of the government to acknowledge deficiencies of the original procedure and to take on board civic criticism is refreshing. This bodes well for a more productive dialogue between the governmental and non-governmental sectors, both on this and other governance issues,” the GHRA Executive Committee said in a statement issued yesterday.
The GHRA had led public criticisms about the composition of the boards, which it called an “affront” to women in light of the fact that women made up only 18% of the membership for 20 out of the 32 boards that were announced. There were 22 women appointed out of the 125 appointments, with
