Look into the operations and working of the GLDA

Dear Editor,
I would like his Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Agriculture Minister the Honourable comrade Zulfikar Mustapha to look into the operations and working of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) in Region 6.
Every time you call for a vet, there is none present. One is always attending emergency meeting or court; if not, her phone has been turned off. Another one tells you that she is in the Upper Corentyne and gives you the number of the first one. When you go to their pharmacy, you get drugs in a syringe, or somebody visits you long after, late in the afternoon. On most occasions, after they have treated an animal, that animal does not survive.
When you are lucky enough to get to speak to a vet, you would usually be told, “I am on leave”, “That is not my district”, or, “We can’t handle the job. What I want know is why, after court or the emergency meeting, can’t the vet visit?
What would happen if somebody gets an emergency case and one vet is busy while another can’t go in the busy vet’s stead? Why are vets getting duty-free Government vehicles to drive up and down the place without doing Government’s job; and when the month has ended, they collect a salary, but you can’t get them during the week. Weekend is worse, all their phones are turned off.
These same workers are running around holding seminars at fancy hotels and saying they are carrying out tests in the fields, yet they don’t know the situation and conditions under which the animals are surviving.
No farmer lives at the fancy places where these seminars are held, and time is wasted there in talking, eating and drinking. Attendees mark their names at these seminars, and the hotel owners’ pockets are fattened. Many people attend these seminars, and the GLDA is made to look good; but we, the livestock farmers, never get results for the tests done, so we can know what killed or is killing our animals.
Mr President and Mr. Agriculture Minister, cut the salaries of the lying ones. Transfer who have to get transfer, and don’t renew contracts of the lazy ones. And send somebody in between to monitor the co-ordinator.

Respectfully,
Concerned Citizen