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Why conduct such a study again?

May 21, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I could not restrain my anger when I read (SN 20-05-11) that a Barbados-based consultant has again been recruited to review the Carnegie School of Economics, with a view to “reviewing what currently obtains in the hospitality sector and the feasibility of examining a hospitality institute and the development of possible programmes to be introduced”.
Mr. Editor, this very competent consultant was recruited about five-six years ago under the CIDA-funded Caribbean Regional Competitiveness Programme (CPEC) to conduct a similar diagnostic, and a comprehensive report was completed and submitted to all stakeholders.
I was at the time the Country Coordinator for that Programme.
As far as I know, the only thing that has changed at Carnegie since then, is that the USAID Project, GTIS made a significant contribution of equipment to the Institute.
Nothing much has changed in curriculum, staffing and facilities hence it is a considerable amount of wastage of donor funds to conduct such a study again! Sir, the funds could better be spent by asking that very consultant or local counterparts to assist in the implementation of that considerable plan that was completed.
This development is symptomatic of a bigger problem, and that is that it would seem that the Government of Guyana, contrary to the xenophobia of most Caribbean countries, has an excessive love of foreign consultants, and higher the price the more attractive they are to repeat and conduct assignments over and over again, while competent local consultants like myself are bypassed, for maybe the reason that our per diem is not high enough, or is it that we live here and after the assignment will divulge secrets??
I am offering Minister Shaik Baksh my services to help find a copy of that exhaustive study and to provide my professional services in project implementation so that a Hospitality Institute can finally be set up. Or would I have to move to Barbados first?
Joycelyn Williams

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