Regional Parliaments commit to reach out to youth, persons with disabilities

Raphael Trotman

The just-concluded regional parliamentary conference has not been another talk shop, Guyana’s Speaker Raphael Trotman said yesterday, while announcing the passage and adoption of three resolutions that would see an outreach to youth and persons with disabilities.

Trotman told reporters that even before the start 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) he had noted that previous ones had not yielded much more than reports, and promises to attend future conferences.

Determined to make a difference, he said, the various Speakers, Presiding Officers and Clerks of the 14 countries which participated in the