. . . "One additional cost is that, based on anecdotal evidence, some government units have been in limbo for at least two months with respect to their reporting relationships and therefore no meaningful work has been performed"
new ministries . . . gov't in transition . . . opposition still not in parliament . . . budget less than 2 weeks old
where exactly is the scandal you are pointing to here?
I am fully aware that political realities dictate that loyalists have to be rewarded. My contention is how the Ministries are structured. What really is Amna Ally doing, and does she have to be a minister to do this.
Guyana's economy lucked out in the post 2008 period because of a commodity boom. This is now over, and so the economy will slow, with APNU/AFC getting the blame for this, even though it is due to matters beyond their control.
So one would think that there would be focus on crafting and implementing a well thought out policy to diversify the economy. It is obvious that neither the PNC, nor the AFC have a clue about what to do about this. By now we should have been hearing some broad ideas as to what they plan to do, but they don't even have a ministry to accomplish this goal.
But then we have an ex army man, turned historian, and a former communist, so I am not surprised. But I already see a scenario with the PPP capitalizing on this, as the economy slows, unless APNU/AFC begin to communicate a solid vision for economic transformation.
This is why they aren't dealing with the questions raised by Stormborn, which is incidentally the reason why many came out to support them.
By the way a budget must be based on a vision, so using the fact that it is only 2 weeks old is nonsense. APNU/AFC have been in effective power for over 2 months now. We can see that their honeymoon period is ending, as people like Chris Ram begin to query.
BTW did they select Chris Ram for any of their boards? I don't except him to want to be on the executive of any state owned entity, but clearly gov't should be attempting to capture some of this man's expertise. Either they listen to him, or he will be a nucleus for their eventually demise, should the PPP get their act together, dump Jagdeo, and cease being a "coolie party".
dude, David Granger is not Guyana's saviour
you guys are missing the forest for the trees . . . i gladly trade minista bloat for a coalition that gives Guyana a chance to breathe
if/when the coalition f*cks up, they will be (deservedly) voted out . . . this is the politics we want
it, indeed, has been less than 100 days; Budget 2015 is far from a disaster
some of y'all need to chill and let these people breathe
btw, Chris Ram has been engaged by the coalition to audit the Jagdeoite tiefman institutions . . . i hope u understand why he was not invited to sit on these boards
Granger is not looked on as a savior. He is a bridge to take us to a place where we can breathe. He has not demonstrated one ounce of his military disciple to date.
He heeded to run a stripped down government with direct streams of information flowing to him from people he selected to command authoritatively.His troops needed to be deployed in the field systematically securing ground and setting up safe zones for us to nagivate in.
Instead he give us this confused, disorienting babel for ministers and a maze as administration and that is completely depressing.
the flaw in your neat, ordered, governance scenario is a total non-consideration of the real-life political complexities introduced by the demands of the Cummingsburg Accord