Dear Editor,
DURING the elections campaign and after March 02, 2020 electoral process, all sorts of drama started to unfold along with all sorts of people that hold office and positions that mandate neutrality in order for them to hold that specific position politicised themselves, and compromised their trust to those whom they are supposed to serve.

I must firstly commend the President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) for his professionalism in executing his duty throughout the Electoral Process. He never showed to the public any political affiliations, nor any sign of being compromised.

While we’re at it, there is one out of many persons in the Guyana Teachers Union’s Executive that showed tremendous signs of being compromised and politically affiliated, and that is the General Secretary, Ms. Coretta Macdonald, who took to  the stage at the Area ‘H’ ground in Rose Hall and campaigned for the then caretaker APNU+AFC administration. And on that campaign trail, the very same GTU General Secretary Macdonald bombarded and lambasted the newly-elected government and all of its members via social media.

Let it not be forgotten that Coretta  Macdonald is the General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers Union, and it brings into question whether the deals made on behalf of teachers in 2018 with the then APNU+AFC administration in which Miss Macdonald was a negotiator for the teachers of this great country was fair, and whether any other “underhand” business was carried out to broker that deal, with the evidence of Ms. Macdonald in early 2020 surfacing on the list of candidates of the very same APNU+AFC that she sat down with to negotiate for the Teachers of Guyana in 2018.

It should also be known that during the historic election campaign trail and elections drama after March 02, 2020, Ms. Macdonald had a political feud via Facebook with the now Education Minister, Hon. Priya Manickchand. And so what should we as citizens expect in future to come if there should be, and there will be, any negotiations between GTU and the Government. The Hon. Minister Priya Manickchand is already a politician, and so is Ms. Macdonald, having portrayed that she is a politician who is associated with the coalition APNU+AFC in the 2020 elections campaign trail. Yet Ms. Macdonald is still the General Secretary of the GTU, a position that must and should be held by one that is not politically affiliated, and is neutral just as the President of the Union has displayed throughout the 2020 campaign trail and still is portraying.

The most exonerating thing about this situation is that the General Secretary of the GTU represents the Teachers and speaks for the Teachers of this beautiful country Guyana. And when she speaks and performs in public, she’s looked down upon as speaking for the Teachers of Guyana on Public and Private Forums. One of my reasons for writing this letter is because of the numerous complaints made to me by numerous teachers. And it should be known that out of those numerous complaints, disappointments and condemnations of Ms Macdonald were made by teachers of all ethnicities. My letter entails most of the views of those university-qualified teachers.

With all that evidence and points being made, Ms. Macdonald I encourage you to leave the position of General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers Union for someone who is not politically affiliated and is neutral. It should be noted that the Guyana Teachers Union is not a political union, more-so politicians cannot negotiate or lobby for the teachers of this great country. Furthermore, politicians who do not support the “government of the day” will always have their own agenda in terms of making deals for those who they represent.

All eyes are on the Guyana Teachers Union Executive body on their next move in regards to dealing with this matter.

Yours truly,
Randy Da Silva
(Concerned Citizen)