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Oxford Dictionary Editor supports Sanders for C/wealth SG position

May 12, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
While electioneering is in full swing in the Caribbean since a few countries are voting for new governments, there are moves behind the scenes in most Commonwealth countries to elect a new Commonwealth Secretary General.
Alex May, a distinguished writer and commentator, who is the research editor of Oxford
Dictionary, feels that Sir Ronald Sanders, a senior diplomat, commentator, is the best person suited for the top position of the 53 nation body.
Writing in the Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, he stated that the election will be a crucial one since there is need for a “turn around” and it is of vital importance who is elected to make this move.
He said that the choice is between two persons. One from the Caribbean and the other from Africa: The first is a distinguished woman who served two terms as deputy Secretary General under Lamaesh Sharma, with responsibility for Secretariat’s activities.
Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba has considerable experience in business (including Chief
Executive Officer of the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority) and the other Sir Ronald Sanders who he said “brings considerable experience of management (including in the international finance and telecommunication section) and of the Commonwealth as a diplomat, political commentator and key figure in the: (“Eminent Persons Group) appointed in 2010 to advise on reform of the Commonwealth (some of whose recommendations were rejected and others accepted, though their implementation has been very long in coming).
Well known and widely respected in the Caribbean and in Commonwealth circles, he combines diplomatic, managerial and political skills and a realistic appraisal of possibilities with a passionate commitment to the Commonwealth and core values”
The respected Alex May then made this important point “If anyone can revitalize the Commonwealth, one feels, it is him…”
If Sir Ronald is chosen it will certainly give the Caribbean a big boost because he was intimately involved in the region from a broadcaster in his homeland Guyana to the Head of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) and then to Antigua and Barbuda High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Oscar Ramjeet

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