With the increasing and worrisome proliferation of prohibited and potentially dangerous food imports into Guyana and the patent limitations in the ability of the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GA-FDD) to address what is believed to be a regime deliberately contrived by some importers to maximize their profits at the expense of the nation’s health, Acting Director of the GA-FDD Marlan Cole has been persistent in his insistence that the department needs to enhance its capacity.
On Tuesday he did not appear quite ready to respond to the announcement in Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s 2017 budget presentation that the GA-FDD had been allocated $110 million.
In recent days Cole has had to face a public demonstration by importers accusing him of bias in the execution of his duties that appeared to come like a bolt from the blue, as well as a summons to the office of Public Health Minister Dr George Norton.
