WITH the aim to further sharpen its focus on efficiency in a new term, People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary and Guyana’s Vice-President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo said that government ministries and bodies could be reorganised to ensure this can be achieved.

He made these remarks during a press conference on Thursday at Freedom House, Georgetown.

Dr Jagdeo said that President, Dr Irfaan Ali will have to evaluate several criteria: performance, suitability, skill, people skill and a whole range of factors, noting that he, himself, in his capacity as Head of State knows about this.

“In terms of government efficiencies or efficiency, it doesn’t necessarily mean the creation of new ministries, but a lot of what could result in that… it’s not our intention to grow the number of ministries.

“It is to ensure that work is done more effectively in a different way, so that we can better serve the citizens of the country; and that may necessitate some reorganisation.

Reorganisation along the lines of not just physical reorganisation but workload reorganisation, and also the tools that we use to deliver the efficiency will vastly change. So those are the key things that we are looking at.”