CARL Greenidge is not a financial expert, he is not a money manager, and he is not a world class economist. If he is so much of an expert, how was he capable of taking Guyana to bankruptcy? Why is he beating around the bush? Guyana ran bankrupt when he was Finance Minister. Guyana was hopeless under his financial guidance.For example, what kind of ‘national economy manager’ would oversee a country being plunged to a halt, that caused long queues for basic food items, and essentials such as gasoline and cooking gas; shops with empty shelves; businesses having to close their doors because of foreign exchange and cash flow challenges, and many other indignities too numerous to mention.

It was a period, under Greenidge’s stewardship, that witnessed many children being forced to leave school so as to augment the family budget, because their parents suffered re-deployment, an euphemism for being laid off from their jobs. This could be said to be one of the main contributors to the decline in literacy which became a fact in this nation.
Guyana under Carl Greenidge was classed as the second poorest country in the western hemisphere and was ranked below Haiti because of its financial crisis, and it was Mr. Greenidge himself who declared that Guyana was bankrupt.
Does Carl Greenidge deserve to be the Minister of Finance if the A Partnership for National Unity has a shot at winning the May 11th 2015 elections? I think the answer is clear for all to see!
MARIA KARIM