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Aubrey Norton answers Charles Ramson Jr.

Jan 15, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Please refer to an article in Thursday, January 14, 2016 of another newspaper captioned “National Youth Policy yet to be implemented” in which Charles Ramson Jr. stated in referring to the National Youth Policy that “you have Norton being paid $500,000 a month who is specifically designated to do this; you have a Minister, but both of them are unable to come up with the national youth policy”.
Were Mr. Ramson Jr. a serious young politician who pays attention to current affairs, he would have noted that the media houses, including all newspapers and the Guyanese public were informed that the Draft National Youth Policy has been completed and therefore, he would not have arrived at the erroneous conclusion that they are “unable to come up with the national youth policy”.
Mr. Ramson Jr. seems not to understand governmental procedures. I had the responsibility to draft the National Youth Policy. This was completed and submitted to the subject minister. It is therefore not within my jurisdiction to make pronouncements on the status of the policy while it engages the attention of the Minister. It is for this reason that I directed the journalist to the subject minister.
It is hilarious but understandable that Mr. Ramson Jr. noted that the PPP completed 90% of the policy. This claim apart, he is probably too young to know that the PPP had been promising a youth policy since I was a Member of Parliament in 1998. Therefore, what moral right does Ramson Jr. and the PPP have to speak about the completion of a youth policy? It took his party eighteen (18) years from the 1998 promise and they still did not, and could not complete a youth policy because it lacks the political will and interest in the development of the youth of Guyana.
Mr. Aubrey C. Norton
Presidential Advisor on Youth Empowerment

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