The ERC, GTUC and the Strategic Assessment Report

Feb 15, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wish to state from the outset that I do not read, much less buy, the Guyana Chronicle
The article that appeared in pages 12 of the Guyana Chronicle dated Tuesday February 08 2011captioned, “Freddie Kissoon must state his true intentions” was brought to my attention by a friend who is a well known activist of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) who receives daily issues of the Chronicle, free of cost. So he told me…If Bishop Edghill was associated with that article and I wish to suggest that he was he deserves to go to hell, if one exist, and I think it does.
For the public interest, not Edghill’s, a brief account is given of the telephone discussion that took place between Mrs. Yvonne Langevine, Chief Executive Officer/Secretary of the Ethnic Relations Commission and I on Wednesday February 02, 2011.
On Wednesday February 02, 2011 at approximately 10:30 am I called the Office of the Ethnic Relations Commission. A clerk answered the phone and I requested to speak to the Chief Executive Officer. The call was transferred to the Chief Executive Officer who introduced herself as Mrs. Langevine, Chief Executive Officer. I told her that my name is Norris Witter, I am the President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress and that I was requesting a copy of the Strategic Assessment Report, compiled by the UNDP consultant Mr. Lawrence Latchmansingh, for the trade union centre.
She told me that she knew what I was talking about and was unable to tell me anything further until she speaks to Bishop Edghill. She promised to call me after she would have spoken to Bishop Edghill. I called back about 15 minutes later after not hearing from her (Mrs. Langevine). She told me that she had not as yet made contact with Bishop Edghill. About 10 minutes after our last conversation she (Mrs. Langevine) called and informed me that Bishop Edghill had advised her that the document was a private one and the GTUC is not entitled to a copy.
I had a sneaking suspicion that the ERC would have played some game with the GTUC’s request so I proceeded to follow up my telephone request with a written request to the Chief Executive Officer the very day for a copy of the document.
I received a response to my letter dated Wednesday February 02, 2011 and addressed to the CEO the following day, Thursday February 03, 2011, informing that it “is regrettable that the Commission cannot concede to the GTUC’s request since the report is solely in the interest and for the internal use of the Commission”.
Norris Witter

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