Nagamootoo downplays President chairing Cabinet meetings

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is not making an issue of President David Granger’s chairmanship of Cabinet meetings, while noting that contrary to what is stipulated in the Cummingsburg Accord the duty belongs to the President.

The Accord, which formed the basis for the pre-election alliance of APNU and the AFC, had provided that the Prime Minister would chair Cabinet meetings.

However, President Granger has so far chaired all Cabinet meetings and when questioned Nagamootoo on Monday noted that the