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Appointment of Charles Corbin

Friday, 20 March 2009

Dear Editor:
Charles Corbin taking the oath of office

The appointment of Charles Corbin, brother of Opposition and PNCR Leader Mr. Robert Corbin, to the Guyana Elections Commission, presents a disgraceful case of nepotism in the Guyanese polity. Mr. Corbin's use or abuse of his constitutional authority to find jobs for the family is no different from the pernicious nepotism that has been practiced by the ruling PPP over the years and must be denounced. According to pronouncements on public record, Mr. Corbin did not receive a consensus from the entire Parliamentary Opposition on the appointment of his brother to the Commission. Given the dynamics of Guyanese politics today, Mr. Corbin’s political vulnerabilities and personal idiosyncrasies, the circumstance of using his constitutional office to appoint a family member to the Election Commission, on behalf of the entire Parliamentary opposition, without consensus, is superciliously self-aggrandizing and injudicious.

Are we to accept that in all of Guyana, Mr. Robert Corbin could find no one but his brother, that he deems suitably qualified and competent to appoint to the Elections Commission? Charles Corbin has replaced Attorney-at-Law, Lloyd Joseph, who died last year. Now that the Commission has its full complement of opposition Commissioners, one cannot be oblivious of the reality that there is no member of the Elections Commission from opposition who is an Attorney at Law.

This is a typical instance of Mr. Corbin’s “wishy washy” approach to his responsibilities and lack of “Strategic political thinking.” Suffice it to say that it is another manifestation of his prowess for actions which almost always redound to, or yield, personal benefit – perks!

Yet, this is the gentlemen that wants to stick around as Leader of the PNCR and continue to run the institution into the ground, and who some unenlightened party leaders continue to blindly support.

I hope that the pieces can be put together again after he has finished wrecking the party.

Rickford Burke

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