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Nov 30, 2018 Letters
If what is reported in the media is correct, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence has some explaining to do, as to what exactly she is trying to convey to the Guyanese people, the majority of whom are not members or supporters of the PNC. To say that ‘only PNC members are her friends’ and on the basis of that friendship are eligible for employment in the government service is not only disingenuous, but an affront to all Guyanese.
Minister Lawrence is not only the Chairman of the ruling PNC, but she is also a Minister of Government, and whatever she says cannot be taken lightly.
Is the Minister implying that we are going back to those dreadful years of party paramountcy when membership of the PNC was one of the criteria for employment in the public sector and for access to State-controlled goods and services?
Statements such as those reportedly emanating from the mouth of a senior government and party functionary do not bode well for peace and national reconciliation. Moreover, it flies in the face of the concept of social cohesion which the government claims to embrace, but which from all appearances it is drifting further and further away.
The Minister has a responsibility to the nation to offer an explanation if only to allay fears of ethnic and political discrimination, which her comments could engender in the minds of the Guyanese public.
The Minister of Social Cohesion Ms. Amna Ally should also issue a statement on the issue given the implications such statements can have on the issue of social cohesion.
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