Clerk says Order Paper his responsibility

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the task of preparing the Order Paper for sittings of the National Assembly is his and not the Parliamentary Management Committee, as posited by former Minister of Finance in the PNC administration Carl Greenidge.

The latter, in a comment to this newspaper on Monday, said that it was improper for an Order Paper to be prepared without the constituting of the PMC.

Isaacs referred to Standing Order 6.5, which states, “The Clerk shall be responsible for preparing and circulating to Members before the commencement of each sitting an Order Paper containing the business for that sitting.”

“The Parliamentary Management Committee is in no way responsible for the preparation of the