Ministries wallowing in massive underperformance

With the presentation of the 2018 budget just two months away, opposition members are already scrutinizing the performance of several ministries for the year.

In fact, members of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) are of the view that most ministries, if not all, have been wallowing in massive underperformance for the past two years. Specifically making such assertions recently was PPP Executive Member, Juan Edghill. Edghill told Kaieteur News that when one assesses the performance of several ministries, it is clear that some Government officials are not doing anything at all. In local Guyanese parlance, the former Junior Finance Minister said, “They just deh.” Edghill asserted that the government and its Ministers have essentially failed to inspire the people of Guyana. He opined that the job of the Executive is to give citizens a sense of understanding of where they are taking the country, how they are going to get there and what would be the benefit when they get there. The PPP Executive Member opined, “When I think about the various ministries and how they are overloaded with Ministers, as a citizen, I am yet to be inspired. We see more bureaucratic bungling; rampant display of incompetence; insensitivity to the perceived and real needs of the Guyanese people and policies that make no sense.”

Edghill’s eyes, has maintained a stable position as it relates to the nation’s representation and advancing of its national ideals, there is hardly any other ministry that is making sense in the current construct. The Opposition member commented that the Ministry of Legal Affairs has become a total disaster; the Ministry of Social Protection is now a laughing stock and the Ministry of Public Health remains scandal ridden. Edghill said, “As for the Ministry of Finance, it is putting out nice statements and crunching numbers but the economy is still stagnant.

(Kaieteurnews.com)