Lincoln Lewis says govt. never requested audited CLC statements

Sep 01, 2011 News

“Roger Luncheon or any other government official has never or at any point stated why the Critchlow Labour College’s subvention was taken away from the college or requested any information about the college,” Lincoln Lewis who is the General Secretary of the Guyana Trade Union Congress (GTUC).
Lewis made this disclosure on Tuesday during an interview with this newspaper. He explained that the subvention started at the inception of the college.
According to him, throughout the years an audit would be conducted on a monthly basis. Lewis said that after the present administration came into power, the then Auditor General Anand Goolsarran was instructed by the head of state to audit the college’s funds.
Kaieteur News was told that Goolsarran by way of letter replied that the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) was not a state entity and under the law he could not conduct an audit on it. It was in 2004 while Parliament had passed the subvention, the government decided not to give it to the school.
In January 2005, Andrew Garnett assumed responsibility of the college. Immediately after taking that role he was engaged in talks with the president.
According to Lewis, Garnett had walked with all the documentation about the college.
Lewis said that the college has on more than one occasion sent in its audited reports.
Lewis opined that the subvention has nothing to do with the TUC or any other body, and is “a pure political move”.
Only last week the new Principal of the school, Ivor English, took the media on a tour of the newly renovated college.
The school, according to the principal, is ready to open its doors as the new school term draws near.
English told Kaieteur News that over the last year or so they have had some very ambitious objectives.
He said they wanted to improve on the environmental conditions at the school and also to rehabilitate the building as well as equip the classrooms.
More importantly, English said they wanted to start with the academic and professional programmes which the school is offering.
Those programmes, he explained, are part of the school’s mandate, which is to give students an opportunity to improve academically and to acquire basic skills which would help them function more effectively in a working environment.
Secondly, he stated that the programmes are intended to sensitize and equip trade union leaders with the tools to make them more effective in the delivery of industrial relations.
The principal said that they have succeeded in some way, thus a strategic plan has been drafted for the organization for the next ten years.
In order for them to implement the plan, English said that they would have to get the requisite resources and expertise.
He noted that the school is currently working with the National Accreditation Council to get all the programmes fully accredited, which is in keeping with the laws of Guyana.
English also sought to point out that the school is currently renting space to the Texila American University.
English had argued that the institution has a glorious history which over the years created an avenue of quality education for workers to enhance their skills.
With the college being more than 40 years old, English, who was a student of the institution more than 30 years ago, recalled the “bitter struggles” to have the certificates issued by the college recognised.
In the 1980s, the college was acknowledged as “the busiest labour institution in the Caribbean”.

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