The meeting at the Supreme Court Library, was a continuation of the initial one held on Monday and which lasted for over just six hours before an adjournment was taken.

The parties then had reported that substantial agreement was reached on the draft document, and Chairman of the Social Partners grouping, Dr Peter de Groot was optimistic that the Communiqué will have been successfully completed, at yesterday’s meeting.

Sources last night told the Chronicle that while from all indications there will be a successful completion of the document, it did not appear as if that would have been concluded last night. Up to press time, parties were still engaged in trying to get full consensus on the crime pact.

Dr de Groot had said after Monday’s meeting too, that crime is only one of the issues identified by the Social Partners in their paper on ‘Shared Governance’ pointing out that the Social Partners and the Political Parties were anxious to start addressing the substantive issues addressed in that original document.

Heading the Government delegation was Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon; the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) , Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Reepu Daman Persaud ; the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R), Mr Robert Corbin; the Rise Organise and Rebuild ROAR) Party, Mr Ravi Dev; The United Force (TUF), Mr Manzoor Nadir; the Guyana Action Party/Working People’s Alliance (GAP/WPA), Mrs Sheila Holder and the Social Partners Dr. Peter de Groot.