Appointment of new foreign envoys based on merit, not patronage – Granger

The appointment of new foreign mission heads was based on merit and was not a form of reward, President David Granger said last evening even as he called on them to put the border controversy with Venezuela on the front burner.

Granger was at the time delivering the feature address at the closing ceremony of an orientation programme created especially for the heads of missions new to the Foreign Service.

He told the new heads and other Foreign Service representatives who were present that diplomats are