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Dr Henry Jeffrey quits as Foreign Trade Minister
Foreign Trade Minister Dr Henry Jeffrey officially demitted office on Old Year’s Day, following his resignation as a Minister of Government.
Dr Henry Jeffrey
The former Minister of Foreign Trade cleared out his desk after he reportedly failed to conclude an agreement with Cabinet over his future. He had indicated that he would not have been averse to accepting a posting as Guyana’s Ambassador to Suriname.
Kaieteur News was told that Jeffery had suggested an alternative post in Guyana if the Suriname posting was not agreed to, but his proposal has not found favour with the powers that be.
This newspaper was told that the former minister causally went into his office and cleared it out, as he said his goodbyes to his former employees.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Kaieteur News on Monday last, Guyana’s Charge d’Affaires to Suriname, Yvonne Lesperans, said that she has not been informed that the former minister will be taking up the ambassadorial post in that country.
She said that while it would be nice to have an ambassador to that country, she has no idea of any decision to have Jeffery take up the post.
Dr Henry Benfield Jeffrey did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom.
He graduated with his BA (Hon) in Politics from the University of Warwick. He did his Master’s of Science at the University of Loughborough, where he specialized in Development Studies. He graduated from University College, Cardiff, Wales, with his PHD in Management Philosophy.
He began his career in the academic sphere serving as lecturer and Principal of Kuru Kuru Co-operative College in Guyana from 1975 to 1978.
During the period 1984 to1986, he performed the duties of temporary Lecturer at the University College, Cardiff, Wales.
He was a Senior Lecture and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Guyana from 1988 to 1992.
In 1992, he became the Director of the Graduate School of Social Science. Dr. Jeffrey was Minister of Labour, Housing, Human Services and Social Security from 1992 to1997.
From 1997 to 2001, he served as Minister of Health and Labour. He assumed the post of Minister of Education in 2001.
Dr. Jeffrey has written several publications. These include inter alia, Guyana: Politics, Economics & Society (1986), Problems of Development of the Guyana (1991), and Sustainable Development in the Guianas.
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