PPP/Civic not represented at meeting with Caricom facilitator
A meeting which had been arranged between Caricom Facilitator Maurice King, QC, representatives of the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/Civic) and the opposition Peoples National Congress (PNC) failed to come off Friday afternoon. King, who had been appointed by Caricom as the facilitator in the Dialogue process between the PPP/Civic and the PNC, told Stabroek News from his Le Meridien, Pegasus Hotel room yesterday that the PNC delegation had turned up at the 4.30 pm meeting, but that no representative from the PPP/Civic appeared. King said that as a consequence he could not comment on the state of play as regards the resumption of the dialogue. He said the PPP/Civic wanted any dialogue resumption meeting to agree on an agenda for the dialogue process. However, the PNC was insisting that there was already an agenda in existence which had been discussed before the talks were suspended. Asked about talks with the Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington relating to the resumption of the dialogue, King would only say that Carrington had set the wheels in motion for the meeting but that he did not think that he would like to comment on discussions the two had on the dialogue process. According to King, the original position was that Carrington should have a hand in setting the agenda for the dialogue, but later Carrington took the decision that King, as facilitator should be the appropriate person to deal with the issue of an agenda for the dialogue. Neither PNC nor PPP/Civic representatives could be reached for a comment yesterday. 
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