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Suggesting the First Lady is compromised is disappointing
DEAR EDITOR,
The hullabaloo surrounding the recent trip to Singapore by the First Lady to commission the Liza Destiny oil production vessel is a bit perplexing.
At the invite of the companies, Mrs. Granger was asked to be the ‘God Mother’ of the vessel, according to media reports, which is in keeping with how the naming ceremonies for these production units are done.
Department of Energy head, Dr. Mark Bynoe, was among those from Guyana who travelled to Singapore for the event.
It is now being said that by virtue of having the companies pay the bill for Mrs. Granger and others, this translates to opening up oneself to compromise.
This is absurd on many levels. Are we truly to believe that the cost of a trip to Singapore could corrupt the First Lady’s actions going forward? Will she try to influence the President in some way to have government act in the companies’ favour because they footed the bill for this trip? The First Lady’s respectable reputation aside, there are surely better ways to buy a politician than shipping them off on a week of mundane ceremony in Singapore… The same can be said of Dr. Bynoe. Will he now be lax in executing the mandate of the Department of Energy when dealing with these companies because they paid for a trip to Singapore?
The narrow-mindedness of us Guyanese on every matter under the sun and the desperate attempt by some for relevance and visibility mean that we are willing to take any and everything and try to turn it into a scandal. This being so, even when it involves someone in the person of Mrs. Granger who has been nothing short of stellar in her conduct as First Lady.
Donald Singh
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