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The media ought to keep the Govt. on its toes

Jan 25, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The media in Guyana has been dubbed a seven-day wonder, and this may very well be true.
Today you will see a huge headline, and seven days later, the issue raised in the article is forgotten and seemingly non-existent.
Recently, I read in the Kaieteur News several articles in relation to the 2006 Auditor General’s Report, where there were scores of articles pointing out several discrepancies in procedure and mismanagement of public funds. The various articles pointed to unaccounted $$B of tax payers money, prompting several persons to call for investigations; but the silence thereafter has been deafening.
What has happened? Will we ever know what happened to the missing money that is now more than ever so needed to develop our infrastructure and services meted out by the Government? Recently, the President announced a $3B relief canal to seek to cope with the now annual flooding.
He said that several projects have had to be put on the back burner because of this investment.
But, Mr. Editor, this would not have been the case had the Government properly used and accounted for the money in its care.
More recently, it was also discovered that financial records for a period of four years went missing and could not be reconstructed at the Office of the President.
The Government preaches about checks and balances to avoid such occurrences, which is indeed a fact, so this begs the question: what is the Public Accounts Committee really doing? Why has that committee, to date, not called in the relevant persons to finally settle the issue of the mismanagement and squandering of tax payers’ money?  The public has a right to know that its money paid to the Government is used to make the life of each Guyanese a better one.
I conclude by saying that the media in Guyana also shares the blame in having the Government get away with the nonsense that it seemingly has been able to get away with.
The journalists in Guyana seem to lack what it takes to keep the Government on its toes and have them properly account to the nation how it transacts the nation’s business.
Michael Anthony

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