Former PNC Finance Minister Carl Greenidge has been nominated by the Murray camp as their choice for the party’s presidential candidacy, Stabroek News has confirmed.
According to Ronald Austin, a former ambassador and Murray supporter, Greenidge has reacted positively.
“He is interested,” Austin stated briefly, adding that Greenidge will need to work out how the move is going to affect his professional life. The Murray camp is expected to issue a statement shortly on the issue.
Greenidge is the Deputy Senior Director, in the CARICOM Secretariat’s Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) and is a member of the OTN’s management team. He served as an interim Secretary General of the ACP Group in Brussels and Director of the joint ACP-EU specialist institution on information communication technology, the CTA in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
As Minister of Finance he headed the Guyana teams which negotiated agreements such as Paris Club and the first ever programme for the clearance of arrears to the Multilateral Institutions under the so-called ‘Intensified Collaborative Approach’ for chronically indebted countries and buy-back of commercial debt, on which successful management of Guyana’s Economic Recovery Programme and HIPC eligibility were based.
