E/CN.4/2004/18/Add.1 page 26 Appendix I TABLE OF SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE RANKS BY ETHNICITY IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN GUYANA Position Total No. No. East Indians No. Africans No. Others % East Indians % Africans Ministers 20 14 3 3 64 18 Permanent secretaries Principal assistant secretary/Assistant secretaries 15 21 9 6 6 15 0 0 58 29 42 71 Accountant (heads) Senior personnel officers Deputy permanent secretaries, directors and others 26 13 38 5 0 11 21 13 27 0 0 0 19 0 29 81 100 71 Source: Public Service Ministry Records, 2001-2002 Note: This table shows the senior and administrative ranks for most ministries of the public service. These are human services, security, labour, health, home affairs, public works, agriculture, information, foreign affairs, education and finance. Ministries not included at this stage are housing, legal affairs, culture, and trade. Their inclusion would have sustained the general conclusions herein outlined because of similar demographics. East Indians are in large numbers in the upper echelons of the ministries where they comprise 70 per cent of Ministers. At the level of permanent secretary, both East Indians and Africans are strongly represented. However, Africans control all other senior administrative and executive positions, such as, deputy permanent secretaries, principal assistant secretaries, assistant secretaries, accountant heads, and senior personnel officers. Africans, therefore, certainly are not marginalized in the upper levels of the hierarchy in the public service. There is, in effect, an emergent ethnic mix in the hierarchy of control. See Prem Misir, “Social marginalization and ethnicity, a preliminary study”,The Government Information Agency (GINA), Georgetown, 2002.