Clerk yet to act on request to prepare for sitting of House

Sherlock Isaacs

Clerk Sherlock Isaacs has yet to comply with a request by Speaker Raphael Trotman to make preparations for the reconvening of the National Assembly next week.

Isaacs told Stabroek News yesterday that he was awaiting feedback from Clerks across the region on their interpretations of the Standing Orders and if his initial interpretation was indeed accurate or not. But for now, “as I see it nothing can be done,” he said.

Isaacs disclosed that Trinidad and Tobago’s Clerk of the House and consultant to the drafting of Guyana’s Standing Orders Jacqui Sampson-Meiguel was of the