Opposition coalition APNU has said it is committed to rebuilding the professionalism of the Foreign Service, which it says the PPP/C has made impotent.
“…The Guyana Foreign Service is in tatters,” APNU said in a statement on Thursday. “[It] has nosedived into irrelevance and mediocrity and has become a laughing stock,” it added. The opposition group, which comprises the main opposition PNCR, the WPA, GAP, NFA, GPP, the GNC and GALA, noted that when the PPP entered office in 1992, it inherited a Foreign Service that was second to none in the Caribbean. Guyanese Foreign Service Officers, it observed, were well trained and rated among the most astute in the world of diplomacy. Further,