Gov’t, opposition cooperation hinges on compromise over excesses

Henry Jeffrey

Political cooperation between the government and the opposition may depend on a negotiated “compromise” on handling the full disclosure of the PPP/C’s excesses in office, according to former minister Dr. Henry Jeffrey.

“We have here a serious conundrum. The opposition cannot have a meaningful working relation with the PPP/C without its making full disclosure of its period in government and the PPP/C cannot make that disclosure without creating serious problems for itself,” he wrote in his weekly Future Notes column in the Stabroek News yesterday, adding that those in the PPP/C ranks who would be most “endangered”