The Social Partners have asked the PPP/C and the PNCR to meet and resolve their differences on the joint communiqué on crime.
Dr Peter deGroot who heads the Social Partners grouping told Stabroek News yesterday that he sent the latest proposals for the communiqué from the PNCR to the government and the PPP/C asking that the two parties appoint a team of representatives to meet and work out their differences.
For more than a month now, the Social Partners have been consulting the various parties but has now decided that it would leave the process to them.
PNCR general secretary, Oscar Clarke, asked about his party’s position on the communiqué told Stabroek News that while it remains supportive of the initiative, it will not sign a document which cannot be sold to its members.
Clarke said the PNCR has made proposals which are valid and with which the Social Partners agree. He said it was prepared to share these proposals with the media so that the public can judge their validity.
The Social Partners Group when it gets agreement on the communiqué plans to call another joint consultation at which the parliamentary parties as well as President Bharrat Jagdeo and Leader of the Opposition Desmond Hoyte in their constitutional capacities would sign. At that meeting too, the Social Partners would engage the parties in consideration of their expanded paper on shared governance that they were mandated to prepare at the first joint consultation they convened on September 11 - some 65 days ago.