Sincerity
Recent news reports indicated that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday ended up approving staffing appointments and promotions of persons working in the office of the Auditor-General (AG). Among the persons reportedly promoted to a position of Director was the wife of the Minister of Finance. All reasonable Guyanese would accept the principle that any public servant who qualifies for a position ought to be permitted to work in that position once the person is capable of doing the job. That the Minister’s wife was promoted to a position of higher responsibility, it must be, in the judgement of the Acting AG, that the wife of the Minister was capable of doing the job. Under normal circumstances, no one should find fault with the judgement exercised by the AG.