Minister Ashni Singh Boasts Economic Growth For Guyanese Youth Then Shutdown College Minutes After
The PPP/C Jagdeo-Ali government decided to close Bertram Collins Public Service Training College, a learning institution established by the APNU/AFC government in 2016 which sparked outrage among the youth and Guyanese population. The institution was geared a training young people for a role in the public service and the college fell directly under the management of the Public Service Ministry.
Along with the closure came termination letters for scores of Guyanese with the pandemic era.
“It is an atrocity, a clear indication that the PPP/C regime does not care about the quality of public service delivered to Guyanese and it emphatically shows vindictiveness, which would jeopardize youths’ future; for some, this is the only equal chance of gaining employment. PPP/C, this is not a game of chess where you can use young people as pons to score cheap political points. This is unacceptable and repulsive,” said Devin Sear (MP).
PPP’s closure of the Bertram Collins College is a reprehensible act of political spite and malice
The closure of the Bertram Collins College of the Public Service is a clear indication that the PPP regime has no interest in a professional public service and no interest in the structured and planned preparation of ambitious young people for a career in the public service.
What is obvious is in spite of the PPP’s rhetoric, their only interest is in a politicized public service that they can emasculate, manipulate and control.
The APNU+AFC Coalition condemns this continuing campaign against public servants and calls on all right-thinking Guyanese to raise their voices against the targeting and suppression of the Guyana public service said Hon. Tabitha Sarabo-Halley.
Minister Dr. Ashni Singh with responsibility for Finance just recently boasted that young people should not be afraid to take risks for fear of failure and as such should start investing in their ideas so as to tap into the “major structural change” this economy will see from this year.