Politically-affiliated GTU General Secretary should step down

Dear Editor,
During the Elections campaign, and after the March 02, 2020 electoral process, all sorts of drama started to unfold, along with all sorts of people who hold offices and positions that mandate neutrality in order for them to hold those specific positions, politicised themselves and compromised the trust of 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 affiliation or any sign of being compromised.
While we’re at it, there is one out of many persons in the Guyana Teachers Union Executive that showed tremendous signs of being compromised and politically affiliated; that is, General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers Union, Coretta McDonald, 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 McDonald bombarded and “lambasted” the newly elected Government and all of its members via social media.
Let it not be forgotten that McDonald 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 she was a negotiator for the teachers of this great country, were fair, and whether any other “underhand” business was carried out to broker that deal.
There is the evidence of Ms McDonald, 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.
Ms McDonald, 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; moreso, 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 whom they represent.
All eyes are on the Guyana Teachers Union Executive body, to see what would be their next move in regard to dealing with this matter.

Yours truly,
Randy Da Silva