In a comment to the Government Information Agency, Information Liaison to the President, Mr. Robert Persaud called on the Speaker of the National Assembly to explore all measures in keeping with the Standing Orders of the National Assembly to ensure that those Members, who physically disrupted Parliament, are appropriately censured and disciplined even if it means suspension or revocation of privileges as Parliamentarians.

On Friday, PNC/R Members of Parliament, including Mr. Raphael Trotman, Mr. James McAllister, Mr. Jerome Khan, Mr. Abdul Kadir and Ms. Deborah Backer along with other demonstrators bypassed Police barricades and gathered at the front door of the Ocean View Convention Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, where the sitting was held.

Loud noises, chants, banging of sticks and the door and general vulgar behaviour were the order of the day.

Mr. Khan and Mr. Kadir subsequently went into the National Assembly with placards.

Speaker the National Assembly, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran was forced to interrupt Minister of Finance, Mr. Saisnarine Kowlessar during his reading of the Budget Speech to suspend the sitting of Parliament until the Police Force restored order.

The Office of the President official anticipated that local associations such as the Guyana Bar Association and the Guyana Human Rights Association and various overseas organisations will comprehensively and unequivocally condemn the flagrant display of disrespect to the highest form of democracy within the country - the Parliament.

Persaud questioned how those MPs who had applied for and were granted leave from Parliament, could say that they are on a boycott and at the same time storm and disrupt Parliament.

According to him, "The time has come for these MPs who are collecting millions of dollars in allowances and perks to stop denying ordinary citizens of Guyana their hard earned tax dollars."

He asked: "Are the tax payers paying the PNC/R MPs to undermine and violate the laws of Guyana?"