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Shame on the Ministry responsible for Co-ops
Dear Editor,
The Minister responsible for Cooperatives in Guyana through his Chief Cooperatives Development Officer has surely abdicated his responsibility to support the development of the Cooperative movement in this country.
I was not close to the happenings here since I was away but things do not look as if they have made any progress. I refer specifically to the Paradise Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, which has been abandoned by government through the inaction of the subject minister.
Members were told by way of an advertisement by the CCDO that they should indicate their desire for an audit before November 30, 2013 or face being deemed deregistered. I am aware that a petition of no confidence with fifty-two names was sent to the Minister seeking to have the substantive CCDO and his agent(s) removed from any involvement in the affairs of the Society.
It also requested an urgent audit of the Society’s finances and assets among other issues. To this day nothing has been heard from the Ministry despite the November deadline having been passed.
What adds insult to injury is the fact that prices are still being sought as much as one million dollars for lands to re-migrants. The Ministry responsible for co-operatives has not taken the requisite steps to inform the Ministry of Housing of the situation at Paradise.
The Ministry must take the blame for this unacceptable state of affairs since officials did not cause an advertisement to appear in the newspapers informing the public that the persons who previously were mandated to conduct the business of the PMCS were no longer authorized to so do.
The ministry must also take some of the blame for the atrocious state of the roads in the Paradise Housing Scheme. In other words for this monumental failure the Ministry and its officials should hang their collective heads in shame.
Gervais Sansulotte
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