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New British High Commissioner expected soon
The replacement for former British High Commissioner to Guyana, Andrew Ayre, is expected to arrive in
Incoming British High Commissioner to Guyana, James Gregory Quinn
Guyana during the last week of this month. This was confirmed yesterday by an official attached to the British High Commission.
Ayre is being replaced by James Gregory Quinn.
The new Head of Mission also goes officially referred to as Greg Quinn.
Quinn’s last position held was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Kazakhstan. His career has included work at the United Nations, Former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, in addition to a two-year secondment to the United States Department of State where he worked on Iraq.
The British High Commission is currently being run by Deputy High Commissioner and Charge d’Affaires, Jim Cuzens, who has been in Guyana for just over a year and a half.
Ayre has been transferred to another Diplomatic Service appointment.
He did not leave Guyana on good terms with the government. This is because he spoke openly about what he saw as President Donald Ramotar’s unjustified prorogation of parliament and noted that this would jeopardize British funding to Guyana.
Following his comments to the effect that the UK is not in support of the lengthy prorogation of Parliament, Ayre said that he was prepared to be attacked by the government. The envoy was reported in sections of the media as saying that the Guyana government goes after people who don’t agree with all its decisions and polices.
The government did not give Ayre anything less than he expected.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) and Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon had told the media that the government was “eagerly awaiting” Ayre’s departure from Guyana.
Dr. Luncheon labeled Ayre as “dishonourable” and said that the Cabinet has decided that the diplomat needs to be accorded the status of a “pariah.”
Ayre, just before he left Guyana, was quoted in sections of the media saying that the government of Guyana did not do enough to address the high levels of corruption existing in the country. The envoy left Guyana on January, 30.
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