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Govt. to meet Americans on LEAD project next week

Feb 14, 2014 News

–    Unaware of project implementation

Government is unaware of the status of the United States of America’s Leadership And Democracy (LEAD) Project and is expected to meet with U.S. authorities sometime next week.
This disclosure was made by Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira during a post-Cabinet press briefing she hosted yesterday at the Office of the President.
According to Teixeira, Government and the US Embassy have agreed to meet next week, but there is no indication that the implementation of the project has been put on hold as requested by the Government of Guyana.
In January last, Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said that the decision by the US Government to proceed with a project that the Guyana Government has already rejected is disrespectful.
“The US Govt. has in essence said to the Government of Guyana, we have no respect for what you said and what you direct and what conclusion you came to… We are going ahead with what we want,” he had said in answering whether the US Government had responded to Guyana’s ‘Note Verbale.’
Dr. Luncheon had earlier informed media operatives that the ‘Note Verbale’ was lodged with the US State Department, asking it to clarify why it was proceeding with a project in Guyana that the Guyana Government had rejected.
He said that the four components of the project were analysed by Cabinet and one contained major activities that captured a relationship between USAID and individual political parties in Guyana. This, he said, was a source of concern, given that Guyana does not have a public policy by government for the support for political parties.
He said that there is nothing like that in the law or in practice and the Americans through the project “invited a profoundly sensitive issue.”
Dr. Luncheon said that this is something that has not been dealt with by any post-independent Guyana Government and further “for us, represented a usurpation of our authority.”
However, A Partnership for National Unity, the main Parliamentary Opposition, has already in essence, benefited from the LEAD project.
Leader of the coalition, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger had said the only assistance it has received thus far is the facilitation of a public meeting meant to provide voter education on the holding of local government elections.
Granger had said that in October last year, he met with Glen Bradbury, who is the Chief of Parties for the International Republican Institute, the body USAID procured to implement the project. At that meeting, Bradbury sought to elicit from the coalition’s Leader, the scope of assistance they would require.
According to Teixeira, she does not have a clue as to what is being done with respect to the project.

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