𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐔𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐭

Dear Editor,

Public utilities remain unreliable, blackouts persist, brown water is coming through our pipes. In aviation, the public is still awaiting the overdue report into the GDF helicopter crash, an issue directly tied to safety, accountability, and public confidence, and one that falls squarely within his responsibility. 

Instead, the Director General has elected to involve himself in political rebuttal, dismissing internationally recognised findings on hunger and poverty as “outdated,” while offering no credible, current assessment of his own.

More revealing is his decision to characterise substantive criticism from a woman leader as “emotional.” That language is neither accidental nor analytical. It is misogyny, routinely used to diminish women’s authority when their arguments are inconvenient. 

Poverty and hunger are not abstract modelling exercises. They are lived realities for women managing households, for children attending school hungry, and for elderly citizens struggling under inflation. Acknowledging that reality is not emotion, it is honesty.

There is also a broader governance failure that cannot be ignored. Technical agencies such as the Maritime Administration and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority are not political instruments. They are meant to be apolitical regulators, guided by evidence, professional standards, and public safety. Increasingly, however, these agencies are being used as channels for government propaganda, at the direction of political operatives.

The Director General’s role is not to facilitate this erosion, but to prevent it. When technical agencies are politicised, international regulatory credibility collapses and public trust follows. Maritime safety, aviation oversight, and utilities governance cannot coexist with partisan messaging.

The irony is that the Director General himself notes that serious discussion requires honesty about data. What is missing is his honesty about governance. 

The issue is not the IDB nor the time period of any report. The issue is a government increasingly intolerant of scrutiny and senior officials more comfortable operating as sycophants to ingratiate themselves with the ruling administration and focused more on peddling narratives than delivering real results.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 ( 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞). 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬.

Sincerely, 

Hon. Amanza O.R. Walton, MP