Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Granger to press Dr Anthony on NOC investigation
Coming on the heels of recent reports that three teenagers at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) are pregnant, Leader of the Political Opposition, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, will be enquiring from the Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony, on the status of the Commission of Inquiry (COI), he had called for.
Leader of the Political Opposition, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger
Following the fire and mass break out of inmates that occurred in August last year, Granger had called for a Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the reform institution.
Granger has submitted on the Order Paper for Parliament this Thursday, questions into the work of the COI.
He also wants the Minister to provide answers to the House regarding culpability of the person or persons involved in the escape as well as those that had been involved in the massive fire.
The Opposition Leader will also be pressing the Minister for answers as it relates to the recommendations made as to the appropriate disciplinary actions to be taken against those found culpable.
Granger wants to know too if the Commission of Inquiry has completed its work on this matter and, if not, whether a new deadline has been set for its completion and, if so, by what date has the Commission been directed to complete its work.
He is also seeking to find out when the members of the House would be supplied with a copy of the report.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader will also be seeking to have the National Assembly appoint a commission, styled the National Veterans Commission, to examine the conditions and circumstances facing veterans of the defence forces and disciplined services to make recommendations to ensure their health and welfare and for the general administration of veterans’ affairs in Guyana.
According to Granger, the Constitution of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana prescribes that “Every citizen has the right to free medical attention and also to social care in case of old age and disability.”
In his call for the Commission, Granger says that thousands of persons have served in the defence forces and disciplined services of Guyana in which they rendered essential national defence and public security services to the nation as a whole.
He says too that in accordance with Section 20 of the Defence Act, certain members of the defence forces are required to retire after only twenty-two years of service and other veterans of the disciplined services may be discharged honourably from regular service or transferred to the reserve for various prescribed reasons.
According to Granger, many ex-soldiers and servicemen have faced challenges which have had deleterious effects on their employment, health and welfare of their dependants;
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