Former Minister Jeffrey's scathing attack on current PPP administration

Extract from Kaiteur News article -

Guyana needs a change in governance

The Committee for Human Rights and Free and Fair Elections yesterday hosted another public rally at the Stabroek Square. It attracted as one of the key speakers at the event former Minister of Education, of Health, and of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation in the PPP/C Government, Dr Henry Jeffrey.

Dr Jeffrey launched a scathing attack on the administration and at-fault stakeholders. He warned Guyanese that this 2011 General Election is perhaps one of the most critical to be held in a couple of decades.
The Former Government Minister whom the Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo fell out with following his (Dr Jeffrey) staunch position taken on the Economic Partnership Agreement between CARIFORUM Countries and the European Union, said that what is direly needed in Guyana is a change in governance.

Dr Jeffrey said that the manner in which business is conducted in Guyana has to be dramatically changed in order for the country to achieve a significant level of development.

Dr Henry Jeffrey makes a point during the rally last evening

He cautioned that those who condemn the “evil men” of the past must recognize that it is the system within which they operate that allows them to operate as they like.

“They were placed in a structure that is so permissive they do what they like…We have to change that structure and that is what this election is about.”

Dr Jeffrey told those gathered that despite being an independent country for several decades Guyana is far from being adequately developed. It is frankly a “backward” country.

The University of Guyana lecturer in his presentation also criticised the Administration particularly at the University of Guyana where lecturers critical of the government are now allegedly being targeted.
Dr Jeffrey says that while he has been told that he is not one of the persons identified as a target he would not stand idly by while others are persecuted.

The Former Minister said that Guyana must not be allowed to deteriorate to the point where critics of the administration in institutions such as the University of Guyana would become such targets.

He reminded that in the days gone by he was a very critical opponent of the then People’s National Congress but to date that party has not used it against him, not even in a verbal attack.

Speaking to the issue at the University of Guyana he said that the institution must have a right to deal with any errant lecturers and processes.

He warned, however, that if in doing its job the University’s Administration put in place political measures to get rid of critics of the Government, “then that is a backward and retrograde step.”

Dr Jeffrey described some of the recent occurrences at the University as suggestions that the administration has gone mad.

Note from me: Voters must listen carefully to what those who were in the current administration like Henry Jeffrey and Moses Nagamootoo say about how the administration has deteriorated into negative governance. On Novmemrber  28 they must stand up and vote courageously for a new approach to political governance in Guyana. APNU is showing the way. This grouping of parties from giant ones like the PNC to smaller but sinificant ones like the WPA, GAP, ,JFA.

Dr. Jeffrey had stated in public his reasons for leaving the cabinet in 2009. See link here.