What about a `military’ Police Commissioner?
Greetings. So very early on in the twenty-five-year-old life of this people’s column I would broach with government (s) the utilisation of our Guyana diaspora.
President Ramotar once attempted some structured engagement which got nowhere. Except that many shrewd, naughty Guyanese set about merely to exploit the re-migrant entitlements. Then President Granger sounded more “engaging”, recognising North America as an overseas “region” of Guyana. Perhaps the Presidency Ministry or the foreign affairs outfit has a “diaspora department” with which I’m not too familiar. You see since around 1973 thousands of Guyana’s better brains found reasons to exile themselves to more developed and accommodating societies. As the Brain Drain continued our own education and training institution could never replace lost skills and experience with what was left to work with. Or at the necessary pace.
Result? “Independent” Guyana has never recovered from the human resource deficit even as brand new technologies and requirements emerged over the past three decades.
