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More information on mismanagement at GWI
Dear Editor,
I read the article on the Guyana Water Inc in your Sunday August 21 edition and I am extremely disgusted with what is happening in Guyana. It appears that corruption and nepotism continue unabated in this land.
Dr. Richard Van West Charles must be fired as the CEO of the Guyana Water Inc immediately. Dr. Van West Charles has demonstrated that he has taken the job as CEO of the utility to further his own interest and that of his partners. First it was Van West Charles’ major role in a business venture without the requisite facilities that is intended to be a supplier of fuel for GWI. Then the news that Lear Goring is a convicted drug trafficker and deportee demonstrates the total lack of disregard for the employees and security of such a major utility.
Van West Charles also hired his close friend Lancelot Mars, who has no prior experience in a utility. Van West Charles first hired him as a consultant, paying him thousands of US dollars a month and later hired him in a permanent senior management role akin to a Deputy CEO and most likely increased his compensation. The HR management inclusive of HR Director (Gale Doris) should also be fired for this. These persons warmed their chairs and allowed this to happen. They did not do the requisite background checks or may not have even requested a police clearance.
There are persons who worked for GWI and demonstrated competence. GWI HR management let some of these persons go who would have been interested in continuing to work for GWI but were most likely rejected by the HR senior management and Van West Charles. The HR senior management is not interested in competence and ensuring the requisite management skills are retained or hired for the organisation. This is the discrimination I spoke about many times earlier that is a result of the unprofessional personnel in the HR departments in all government agencies. The PPP were too incompetent and afraid to fix this problem and it seems that now Granger is unwilling to fix this problem as well since it appears he is not sincere about social cohesion. Granger’s social cohesion it appears is limited to rhetoric.
This country’s disunity has relapsed to what it was in the 1970s and 1980s since the coalition came to office. This was not unexpected of the PNC but it is a sad and disappointing reflection of the AFC. One hopes that President David Granger can still turn things around and make a difference while there is time.
H. Singh
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Not enough facts in this letter.
Is the writer writing from hearsay?
So far the Coalition has retained many of those who were PPP supporters in senior positions, an element of social cohesion.
The writer is picking at some unimportant matter and giving the impression of overall mismanagement.
Sometimes I wonder at why the editor allows such letters.