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There will be more work for the 10th Parliament as “two powerful agendas” take centre stage with great expectations, new Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, said.

He said the Parliamentary Management Committee–a bipartisan body comprising members from the government and opposition that looks at and sets the agenda for the House–will be convened on a regular basis. There were criticisms in the last Parliament that the committee was not very active. “I think this Parliament will certainly, for the first time, take us further or furthest that we’ve ever…..


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