The next date for a meeting between President Bharrat Jagdeo and opposition leader, Robert Corbin, depends on when Corbin returns from an overseas trip, says Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon.
Speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet press conference on Friday, Dr Luncheon said that Cabinet, recognising the importance of the most recent decision of the Appointive Committee of parliament on the nominees for the Public Service Commission and in anticipation of its formal adoption today, expressed confidence that the lengthy delay in the appointment of the service commissions was close to an end.
He said Cabinet had examined the basis of the PNCR statements about lack of progress and loss of public confidence in the dialogue and felt that the timing was reactionary.
He said Cabinet had also noted that the process of meaningful consultation would be influenced by a long awaited response from Corbin on correcting the composition of the Police Service Commission. Corbin is currently in Canada.
He said Corbin had yet to pronounce on his party's willingness to correct the present constitutional position on the composition of the commission.
"Cabinet expressed its resolve to bring to closure the longstanding matter of the absence of the Constitutional Commissions for over three consecutive years."