The Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs has rejected a complaint by the opposition PPP that three nominees of the governing coalition were not eligible for swearing in as technocratic ministers on Wednesday.
Minutes before Parliament was to convene on Wednesday, the PPP fired off a press release charging that Keith Scott, Sydney Allicock and Winston Felix were on the lists of candidates that were tendered by APNU+AFC to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to become MPs. The PPP argued that articles 103 (3) and 105 of the Constitution and laws relating to the appointment of technocratic ministers do not confer this status on the trio who had already been sworn in by President David Granger as ministers.
The PPP noted that Allicock had been listed on the APNU+AFC geographic list of candidates for
