Despite the Office of the President’s advice to boycott, many persons yesterday turned up at the International Conven-tion Centre to participate in what has been dubbed a civil society summit, even though its organizer admitted that the statement issued late on Tuesday had an effect on the event.
“I would tell you that yes, it did have an effect…” Dr Phillip Mozart Thomas said of the statement when approached by Stabroek News after the official opening of the event.
“I have never had any association as it represented in [that] statement…” he said while maintaining that the only association he had with
