US State Department official pays courtesy call on opposition leader

Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, Leader of the Opposition this week met with Wendy Sneff, the US State Department, Southern Caribbean desk officer and Michael Fraser, Political and Economic Chief at the US Embassy in Georgetown.

Granger was accompanied by APNU shadow ministers for:Foreign Affairs and Deputy Speaker, Deborah Backer; Public Security, Winston Felix; Public Infrastructure and Communications, Joseph Harmon; and the Policy Adviser, Lance Carberry,

A release from APNU said that Sneff expressed an interest in learning about developments in the National Assembly, particularly the rationale for and purpose of the 2013 Budget cuts by the majority opposition parties.

The APNU team provided a comprehensive briefing on developments in the National Assembly and took the opportunity to give their views on a wider range of political developments in Guyana.  These included “the vexed issues of bad governance by the administration and the deliberate policy of starving the Constitutional Office of the Leader of the Opposition of the resources needed for the effective discharge of the functional responsibilities of the office.”