Gov’t refusing to accept minority status

President Donald Ramotar (right) in discussions with Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General Deodat Maharaj (centre) and Commonwealth Political Affairs Advisor, Caribbean and Pacific, Tafawa Williams. (GINA photo)

A visiting Commonwealth Secretariat delegation got an earful this week from the opposition on how the government is refusing to accept its minority status in Parliament.

Following its meeting with the Commonwealth’s Deputy Secretary General, Deodat Maharaj, opposition party AFC is now preparing to dispatch a dossier of complaints, and pointing out government’s violations of the Charter of the grouping of former British colonies.

On Wednesday, the Deputy Secretary General, who was accompanied by the Commonwealth’s Caribbean and Pacific Political Affairs Advisor, Tafawa Williams, visited Guyana and met and held talks with