Opinion

Public service is bogged down by splitting hairs over meanings of aspects of public policy

Dear Editor, The media today (March 13) carried two letters side by side; one was forthright in its description of the  public servants whose incompetence,  aptly described as “asleep at the wheel” resulted in Guyana losing “a significant part of the export basket of fishing products to the US”; the other was a long dilation on management theories using sophisticated language (typical of Churchill calling a spade an agricultural instrument) to describe the various stages of managerial action/inaction in the public service which lead to success or failure in spite of the massive inputs of training provided to the public servants by high-powered local and international training providers.

Mash was better under the PPP/C

Dear Editor, A GC report dated March 11, 2018, captioned ‘Mash 2018 hailed a resounding success’ quoted Dr George Norton, Social Cohesion Minister as saying, “Mashramani 2018 surpassed our expectations”, and Mr Christopher Jones, Director of Sports as commenting, “Mash is back and 2018 was it.”

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