Dear Editor,
The PPP finds it politically expedient to take out full page advertisements denouncing Carl Greenidge as Minister of Finance taking issue with Anand Goolsarran on central government accounting prior to 1992. They conveniently forget or hope no one points out that whatever faults they may point out in Carl Greenidge are exactly the same faults and issues of principle they have inculcated in many of their own ministers of government.
The PPP has itself become home to ministers who, principled and professional though they may be, have been ordered by the PPP to disregard laws and directives of Parliament itself and engage in conduct unbecoming of a minister, to say the least. For example, although I hold the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, to be a highly principled and intelligent Guyanese, there can be no question that he, upon direction of the PPP, has engaged in conduct grossly improper and unbecoming of his office and a minister of the Government of Guyana. Also, the Minister of Legal Affairs has demonstrated a dialectic conundrum of character as regards his ministerial office with his now notorious recording.
Therefore, notwithstanding the Minister of Legal Affairs, what is clear is that in all governments burdened with poor leadership, there are good persons, highly dedicated individuals, who can only continue to serve under bad governance until change finally comes along to relieve them. I submit that had the PPP benefited from better leadership, none of the embarrassments which the Minister of Finance now faces would have been possible.
I have found Carl Greenidge to possess the character and experience required of a minister of Government, and firmly recommend him as an able and honest person of integrity to conduct the affairs of the next government of the Coalition APNU+AFC.
Yours faithfully,
Craig Sylvester
