PPP snubs Parliamentary event

Oct 29, 2016 News

– finds fault with Speaker’s planning

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday boycotted an event hosted by the Speaker of

Opposition Chief
Whip, Gail Teixeira

the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland, indicating that it was not satisfied with the way the occasion was planned. The party was also displeased with the persons chosen to deliver remarks at that event, an “Afternoon of Reflection and Celebration of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary”.
Opposition Chief Whip, Gail Teixeira sent the media a letter of regret she wrote to Dr. Scotland.
In that letter, Teixeira said that the PPP/C originally assumed that it was a Parliament of Guyana activity but then realized that the Parliamentary Management Committee had not been involved in the planning of the activity.
She said that the PPP/C later learnt from the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs “that this was your activity as Speaker.”
Teixeira continued, “Regrettably, the opportunity provided by a parliamentary activity on our 50th Independence Anniversary to reach out and be inclusive and achieve some modicum of bipartisan consensus between the two sides of the Legislature appears to have been ignored”.
The Chief Whip told the Speaker that such an anniversary calls for inclusion. “Therefore, we find what appears to be an inexplicable restriction on the recognition of parliamentarians to the First and Second Parliaments alone. In our opinion, the 50 years of our independence includes all parliamentarians who have served and continue to serve Guyana over these five decades and eleven (11) Parliaments.”
Seeking to highlight the lack of inclusion she referenced, Teixeira said, “We have noted that the two

House Speaker,
Dr. Barton Scotland

parliamentarians listed to speak are from the same parliamentary political party, the People’s National Congress, that is Mr. Oscar Clarke and Mr. Llewellyn John.
Teixeira bemoaned the fact that no PPP member who served in the First and Second Parliaments has been included on the programme. “Nor are we aware of what attempts have been made to contact the six surviving Members…One of these parliamentarians, in particular, must be specifically identified due to the glaring lack of any female M.P., on the programme, and, that is Mrs. Philomena Sahoye-Shury (a member of the 2nd Parliament) who also served as a parliamentarian as recently as in the 9th Parliament.”

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