APNU front bencher Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine is defending the move by the opposition for a majority on the Parliamentary Management Committee (PMC), while dismissing criticism that it would harm cooperation with government.
Roopnaraine does not see eye to eye with his former colleague on the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC), previous House Speaker Ralph Ramkarran, who called the attempt by APNU and the AFC to change the composition of the PMC “a backwards step” and urged that they reconsider it. Roopnaraine also believes that from the beginning, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Sectoral Committees on economics, natural resources, foreign affairs
