Disruption of Region Five meetings has been disastrous – Chairman

Region Five Chairman Vickchand Ramphal (seated at right) with (from left) PPP Secretary Zulfikar Mustapha and PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee. In the background are Region Five councillors

Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Five, Vickchand Ramphal yesterday appealed to Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan and President David Granger to “intervene incisively” in bringing an end to the “disastrous”  disruption of its statutory meetings.

Using the forum of the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) weekly press conference at Freedom House yesterday, the chairman noted that the APNU+AFC councillors want him to apologize for not attending President David Granger’s function to hand over a school bus in the region in January, even though he was not invited.

He called on the president and minister to