Recently, tucked away in the Stabroek News editorial ‘Lacklustre performance by Opposition in Parliament’ (22/10/2012) is the suggestion that, rather than doing very little over the last session, the opposition could have established parliamentary committees to consider, inter alia, how to retain trained teachers. In my view this suggestion is useful for two additional reasons.
Firstly, parliament should provide policy outlooks for debate before it rushes to legislation on important national issues. Indeed, in the normal parliamentary setting the regime should provide policy (green/white) papers, and now that the opposition is seeking to initiate legislation it should also publish policy documents before moving to legislation,
