Dear Editor,
One reads in the local and international newspapers and other media that Mr Rupert Murdoch, media tycoon and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, is currently being questioned under oath in the Leveson Inquiry about his ethics and knowledge of a recent phone hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by his company, and other matters that affect British society and politics, but specifically about press standards.
Here in our beautiful Guyana where democracy and transparency is claimed by some to be alive, vibrant and potent, one does long for the day when the CEOs of all our failed state companies and corporations would be summoned to appear in front of an impartial all-party parliamentary committee, to be grilled about their stewardship of their respective corporations.
In particular, one would like to see and read that the heads of the Guyana Water Authority, Guyana Power and Light, the National Communications Network, and the Guyana Sugar Corporation had been summoned by a committee and questioned about the poor administrative performance of senior management.
While these four state corporations would suffice for the time being, there are several others too. All the above corporations have failed the Guyanese taxpayers, while for several years now millions of taxpayer money appears to have been wasted.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
