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The pre-conditions regarding GLU’s subventions are ludicrous

Mar 07, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
I want to address what is turning out to be a misunderstanding of my personal position regarding the recently approved motion in the National Assembly vis a vis the restoration of the Critchlow Labour College’s annual subvention. I demitted office as President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress during October, 2013. Consequently, I have no authority to speak for and on behalf of the executive of that august body.
During my tenure as GTUC President I held no discussion with the political opposition on the subject of the restoration of the college’s annual subvention. There had been no exchange between myself and the political opposition during the months I demitted office either. On the day the motion was approved in the National Assembly, I had attended the sitting solely to keep abreast with the debate on the Anti-Money Laundering & Countering of Terrorism Bill and during the recess of the House —after the Motion for the restoration of the College’s annual subvention had already been approved- I was approached by the AFC leader and Member of Parliament Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan and made aware of the development. The entire matter of the motion was news to me. It was the first time I heard of it. After a brief chat with Mr. Ramjattan during which I was not fully apprised of the conditionalities for the restoration of the subvention, I expressed the hope that it could be a step in the right direction. In retrospect, it may have been more prudent to have withheld comment when approached by Mr. Ramjattan to avoid any possible distortion of my opinion on the subject of the subvention.
As a trade unionist who is aware of the intrigues concerning the management of Critchlow Labour College, it is my opinion that the pre-conditions for the restoration of the annual subvention is nothing but ludicrous.
Norris Witter

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