Parliaments must adapt to serve the people’s needs -Trotman

President Donald Ramotar has a brief exchange with Trinidad’s Speaker of the House Wade Mark

As legislative bodies within the Commonwealth group of countries continue to change, they must examine themselves to determine if they are meeting the needs of those they represent and resolve to make changes wherever required, according to Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly Raphael Trotman.

Trotman made the declaration yesterday during the opening ceremony of the 16th Biennial Regional Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), at the Guyana International Conference Centre.

Over the next three days, Speakers, Deputy Speakers, Clerks and other officers from 15 legislative houses within the CPA will commune to