Slow going for Jagdeo/Corbin meet
Stabroek News
March 14, 2003
Progress is said to be slow in arranging the engagement between President Jagdeo and PNCR leader Robert Corbin.
In accepting the invitation extended by President Jagdeo on February 1, Corbin asked that their representatives meet to work out the modalities for the meeting and a date for the meeting, which will be held at the Office of the President.
Since then Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Reepu Daman Persaud and PNCR Chief Whip Lance Carberry have met three times in an effort to define the unresolved issues related to the items that are to be placed on the agenda. Stabroek News understands that the parties are working to define the sticking points sufficiently so as to ensure that the engagement between the President and Corbin can be productive.
Meanwhile the parliamentary political parties are awaiting word from the Social Partners for a date on which the all-party consultations could be re-convened.
The Social Partners group, which comprises the Guyana Bar Association, the Private Sector Commission and the Trades Union Congress, are to meet today to consider a number of the comments on their proposal for the establishment of a small secretariat as the structured, ongoing and permanent mechanism for inclusive governance.
Stabroek News understands that a number of parties while having no objection to the creation of a secretariat, want criteria to be developed for recruiting the persons who would staff it.
The Social Partners had proposed March 10 for the meeting but the funeral of police victim Yohance Douglas was set for that date and many of those invited to the meeting indicated their unavailability.
