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Jan 09, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
I refer your news item, “Lisa Ramotar hired as Gold Board chairman,” Jan3, 2015. That article quotes a source as saying the final list comprised the President’s daughter, Lisa Ramotar and Dr. Yog Mahadeo. The article also went on to state that both applicants were interviewed by Dr. Gobin Ganga and the PNC’s Jeffrey Thomas.
What was not stated in both the KN and SN was what committee was in place that finally narrowed it down to Ramotar and Mahadeo and who comprised that committee. I am suggesting that the persons on that committee were state officials of which President Ramotar was their ultimate boss. Would a state servant refuse to elevate the President’s daughter? Just asking!
Now it may be that her curriculum vitae was good. I make a distinction between curriculum vitae and qualifications; one deals with practical work experience, the other with certificates acquired.
Mahadeo has a doctorate in business/finance management with a work experience that may have equaled Ms. Ramotar (he has made in the recent past some stinging criticism of the government) but in the end, Ramotar’s work experience may have been more varied. It is not her curriculum vitae one should question, but how she arrived at that work experience.
In an interview, Ms. Ramotar persistently said she acquired her certificates and résumé before her father became president. This may border on the misleading. She acquitted training in higher degrees and elevation in employment while her father was the head of the party that was in power. It takes a naïve mind to make a complete separation between the head of the PPP and the President and to see no substantial over-lapping relationship between the two.
The only separation is legal. In which time in Guyana since 1992, when the PPP came to power, would the children of the PPP’s General-Secretary be seen as completely ordinary from the children of the President, who comes from the very party that is headed by the General-Secretary? In Guyana, it never happened in real life.
More interestingly, is how was the resume built? From the time Ms. Ramotar acquired her Masters, she moved up the employment ladder and fast. While her father was head of the PPP, she was Guyana’s ceremonial representative to the World Bank. Without any legal training she was made administration of the Justice Improvement Project. She got the job over applicants who were qualified in law and at least two of the applicants were at the time working with large organizations in an administrative capacity
When next interviewed, Ms. Ramotar should tell the journalist what position her father held when she was going to foreign universities and through what agencies the scholarships were acquired. She should tell the interviewer what position her father held when she was building her curriculum vitae and to name some of the employment on her résumé. Here now is an interesting dimension of the interview Mr. Ramotar gave that all Guyanese should feel sad about.
She pointed her out that her brother Alexei was educated at “one of the best universities.” Those were her words. It meant that Ms. Ramotar is aware of the concept of what a top class university means. How does she feel about the continued decline of UG under twenty two years of her father being the head of the party in government and now three years as president?
Finally, in that interview, Ms. Ramotar intoned that being the President’s daughter should not deny his children from been given opportunities from going after their dreams. What Ms. Ramotar needs to answer is why should the children of opposition politicians be denied the same opportunities Ramotar and her brother are pursuing. The children and wife of Hamilton Green have been denied employment in their own country and the reason is because of who Mr. Green is.
I would suggest Lisa Ramotar have a talk with a young, bright lawyer who came from humble beginnings. Mr. Gino Persaud. Ms. Ramotar’s father, the President of this country intervened and denied Mr. Persaud an appointment with a foreign based organization. Mr. Persaud’s only crime was that he headed Transparency Institute –Guyana in the past. Think of what Mr. Ramotar would have done if Persaud was in active politics with the opposition.
In the coming week, I will have a surprise for Ms. Ramotar. I will show her, with proof, how nasty is her father’s rejection of employment of people who criticize his government. And there will be more than one example. On this subject, Ms. Ramotar has the obligation to offer a comment since she is effusive in her words about her right to employment in her country.
Frederick Kissoon
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