The government yesterday shelved its parliamentary business after a failed bid to force an adjournment of the National Assembly’s sitting to win consensus with the opposition on the contentious Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.
Reservations over two of the four local government bills were also among the reasons given by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds for the intended adjournment of yesterday’s sitting, even as the combined opposition charged that the executive does not have the authority to unilaterally adjourn the National Assem-bly and that the business of the House should continue.
The defeat of Hinds’ motion for an adjournment was expected as both APNU and the AFC had publicly objected to him writing Speaker Raphael Trotman indicating that the executive had adjourned the sitting. As a result, Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud’s absence from the sitting was seen as calculated. At last week’s sitting, Persaud had remained mute when called upon to read the bills, even though Hinds hinted that
