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When did GPL get a PR Unit?
Dear Editor,
Here I was thinking all along that GPL did not have anyone handling its Public Relations issues, when up pops a letter by Wadecia Donald, who apparently is the Assistant Public Relations and Communications Officer at GPL. In fact, the Guyana Chronicle says that she is a part of the Public Relations Unit at GPL! Imagine that!
This is the very first time I and other Guyanese have heard of this individual, or seen a letter from her in the local newspapers. I thought at first that she was a new hire, but based on research, it appears that she has been at GPL for at least several months now.
I’ve got to give it her – she’s giving James Bond (not the politician) a run for his money. Wadecia has apparently acted with such stealth that she is now probably the most secretive, behind-the-scenes PR person that I’ve ever heard of. And imagine they have an entire Unit at GPL doing the same secretive work that no one ever hears about.
I searched diligently on Google to make sure Wadecia Donald was a real person – and she is – but the only previous mention of her I found in the news was a January article by the PPP-affiliated iNews, criticizing her non-response to requests for an explanation about a lengthy blackout in Georgetown (see: http://www.inewsgy.com/?p=98301).
Here’s my question Wadecia: if you’re the PR person at GPL, why haven’t you been doing your job before? Why haven’t you been in Berbice explaining to the people why there’s so many blackouts?
Why haven’t you previously defended GPL against the many letters in the daily news setting forth legitimate criticism of the entity?
What have you been doing all the time you were working at GPL as the PR person? Don’t you think that if you had been doing your job, if you had been responding to the constant criticisms of the company, and if you had been doing your best to prove to all Guyanese that GPL really has their interests at heart and is doing its very best with the limited resources it has, that perhaps, the AFC and APNU might have been a little more sympathetic and understanding towards the entity? And maybe, they might not have cut the GPL budget?
If anything, Wadecia’s lengthy letter is off-putting, because it suggests, rightly or not, that only when the company is facing a massive budget cut, is she willing to do the job that she should have been doing all along.
And rightly or not, it confirms the impression among the Guyanese public that there are certain GPL employees who fail to satisfactorily perform their job functions – raising all kinds of questions about whether they are deserving of the salary they earn.
I hope Wadecia would kindly provide us with a response, and that she would recognize that her job as PR person is to be out front, in the media, fighting for the company she works for, as she is doing now, not hiding in some secretive PR Unit, doing secretive work that no one ever hears about.
Concerned Resident
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