The Ministry of the Presidency in a statement on Monday morning said the government had no intention of “scrapping” or “scuttling” the issuance of commemorative stamps and it criticised reports in the Stabroek News and the Guyana Times which had carried reports to this effect.
Based on an agreement between the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) and the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc (CJRCI), stamps and first day covers commemorating the centennial birth anniversary of the late President Cheddi Jagan were to be issued on Thursday. They were not issued because of the intervention of the government in the matter. That intervention would constitute a scuttling of the original process.
While it says that the issuing of commemorative stamps for former Presidents will be done, the Ministry of the Presidency statement provided no information on if the stamps contracted by the CJRCI would still be issued and if not what would become of the financial arrangements which had been entered into.
