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The Foreign Service is the face of the nation and it is vital we have the best

Jun 25, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Stabroek News last Tuesday carried a very interesting and factual Editorial under the rubric “Broken Foreign Service”. The excellent editorial referred to economic diplomacy – move to foreign investment and creating space for Guyanese in the diaspora to play a role in the quest to build the country’s economy.
Quite rightly the piece referred to Clement Rohee in his haste to remove the PNC-appointed diplomats that he replaced them by party supporters – most of them did not have a clue about administration and to place them as heads of overseas missions replacing highly trained and experienced diplomats.
However a few have learnt and are doing fairly well. Therefore the new administration should not “willy-nilly” remove all. The new Foreign Affairs Minister should bear in mind that there are a few projects underway which were started by overseas-based diplomats and they should be allowed to conclude those undertakings.
As suggested in the Editorial, the Foreign Ministry should revive the “in house” training regime and establish a Foreign Service Institute. Mr. Greenidge should invite experts in the foreign service like Rashleigh Jackson and Rudy Insanally to be resource persons and, if necessary, request advice of Guyanese-born Sir Ronald Sanders, an experienced diplomat who served two terms as Antigua High Commissioner in London and several committees in the diplomatic world. He is now a candidate for the Commonwealth Secretary General’s position which will be vacant in October. Sir Shridath Ramphal who lives in Barbados should also be tapped.
The Foreign Service is the face of the nation and it is vital we have the best, as we had just after independence in the calibre of Sir Lionel Luckhoo, Sir John Carter, Cedric Grant, Rashleigh Jackson, Rudy Insanally et al.
Oscar Ramjeet

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