Group lobbies ACP to reject Guyana’s nominee for secretary general

The International Radio Emergency Support Coalition (IRESC) has said an emphatic no to the nomination of Guyana’s Patrick Gomes for Secretary General of The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in view of the prorogation of Parliament.

The organisation has also called on all ACP member states to reject Gomes’s nomination as a way of sending a message to the Government of Guyana that “the ACP Group does not support dictatorship.” It has also called for a similar rejection of Trinidad and Tobago’s nominee Dr Hamid A Ghany, who it said, “acted as a dictator in helping the Government of Trinidad and Tobago