GFC’s restructuring committee highly imbalance

May 16, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

A few weeks ago (April 26th, 2019), following repeated requested from the staff, the GFC restructuring committee finally met with staff and introduced the members of the committee. Various articles have reported on the chaos that erupted following the meeting. However, as was suspected and the reason for withholding the information on the committee makeup to the general public was that it was clearly an imbalance committee. The staff has noted this and consistently during the engagement, questions were asked why there were no HR or management specialist on the committee.
For general information, the members introduce or announced that the staff comprise of at least four political figures from the Government APNU/AFC membership and three other members. To be specific, the convenor is an advisor to Minister Trotman and an employee of the Ministry and an AFC Executive Member. There is also another advisor (female) working out of the Ministry who is also an AFC member, a third AFC member from the lower East Coast Demerara comes as a private sector representative who has vested interest in forestry (this can be a conflict of interest) and is also a senior member of the AFC. All three of these persons were on the AFC list of candidates for the 2015 elections and possibility the 2018 LGE. Another member introduced is a senior political advisor of the MOP and a member of the APNU. So here you have four out of seven are really political appointees. The fifth member, a former director of CI is perhaps the only specialist in environment and management. The sixth member is GFC lawyer and in private practice and the seventh and perhaps most junior is a middle division management staff of GFC.
This imbalance did not escape the attention of staff and questions emerged as to the glaring absence of any HR and other specialist trained in these types of activities as part of the panel. No satisfactory answer was provided. The Minister soon after in a sign of desperation tried to justify the members of this committee. However, this is a modern era and these missteps by the Minister will not go unnoticed.

Sincerely,
Concerned Staff

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