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Jul 09, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
The recent outburst by acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Priya Manickchand, on the outgoing US ambassador at the 238th independence anniversary celebration of the United States is vulgarity to the highest and totally unacceptable.
I believe her action should be condemned by every right-thinking Guyanese in no uncertain terms. Remarks at those occasions are in keeping with diplomatic norms. Those occasions are not to be used for personal attacks or “cuss down”. Any responsible Minister would have adhered to those principles.
Unfortunately, it does not seem as though the Minister knows better. If the Minister had issues with the US ambassador the Minister should have been intelligent enough to know that that was not the place to vent her feelings.
While I was very disappointed by the Minister’s behaviour, I was not surprised. I can recall at a workshop earlier this year where she launched a similar attack on me. As soon as I attempted to raise a matter with the Minister of Local Government she started heckling. “Chairman, why you went into the dorms?”
As she continued heckling I gave the microphone to her to hear what was bothering her. She then said that a team from the AFC paid a visit to the Mahdia school dorms and that is wrong. She even said that a councillor place a couple of students to pose with some firewood on the shoulder.
This was out of order, she said, and contended that it could become a subject of news reports in the media. Here again the Minister didn’t seem to get it. A workshop is not a forum to address those issues.
I believe that the time has come for some of these PPP Ministers to undergo some training in public ethics so that they will stop embarrassing the Guyanese people. I am calling on President Donald Ramotar to issue an open apology to the US ambassador for the minister’s behaviour.
Mark Crawford
Regional Chairman
Region Eight
Jan 05, 2025
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