National Assembly hears of Heads of Foreign Missions

Oct 23, 2012 News

Consul General to New York, Brentnol Evans, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Laleshwar Singh, have both been labelled as the two longest-serving heads of Guyana Foreign Missions.
Their positions among that of other heads of Foreign Missions came up for discussion yesterday when the National Assembly resumed sessions.
Queries of the Foreign Missions were evoked by Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mrs Deborah Backer, who sought to gain an insight on behalf of the opposition side of the House as it relates to those who are tasked with heading the missions as well as the period that each has served in his or her current posting.
Among those detailed in an answer obtained from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, was George Talbot who serves as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York for the past 10 years of which seven were in the substantive position.
The Consul General to Nickerie, Suriname, is Mr Arlington Bancroft who has served for eight years, eight months with Bayney Karran following closely with eight years, six months in the position of Ambassador to Washington D.C.
The list provided by Minister Rodrigues details that Patrick Gomes has been Ambassador to Belgium for the past seven years, five months while Ronald Gajrai has for the past six years, 10 months held the position of High Commissioner to India.
It was announced, too, that Mitra Devi Ali has been Ambassador to Cuba for three years, three months while Mrs Leila King has remained Consul General to Boa Vista, Brazil for two years, five months.
David Dabydeen has for the past two years been holding the post of Ambassador to China and Harinarine Nawbatt has remained High Commissioner to Ottawa, Canada for one year, five months.
As Ambassador to Venezuela, Geoffrey Da Silva has been rendering his duties for the past one year, four months while Odeen Ishmael has been operating in the same capacity out of Kuwait.
Functioning in the capacity of Honorary Consul General to Toronto, Canada, for the past seven months is Mrs Sattie Sawh while Keith George has for the past six months been posted to Paramaribo, Suriname.
For the past three months Mr Michael Brotherson was tasked with rendering service as Consul General to Barbados.
It was just recently that Merlin Udho was posted to Brasilia, Brazil, effectively replacing Kellawan Lall who was rendering such a task there for one year.

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