Speaker rejects request by committee to convene public fora
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Youth ambassadors: From left to right (sitting): Programme Manager, Culture and Community Development, Dr. Hilary Brown; National Operations Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization, Trinidad and Tobago, Lisa Martinez; Deputy Representative, UNICEF, Guyana and Suriname, Paolo Marchi; Dean, CARICOM Youth Ambassador Corps, Charde Desir; Director, Human Development, Myrna Bernard; Minister in Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Nicolette Henry flanked by the Youth Ambassadors at the opening of the CARICOM Youth Ambassador Programme Orientation and Capacity Workshop.
The four-day workshop which commenced on Monday is designed to orient the Youth Ambassadors to their role and function and to build their capacity for advocacy and action in relation to relevant international and regional development mandates, plans and programmes.
While stating that a public forum does not appear to be appropriate to be conducted by a parliamentary sectoral committee, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland on Monday rejected a requested by the Economic Services Committee (ESC) to hold these in several communities to discuss the sugar industry.
The Committee had requested approval from the Speaker since May 31 for the public forums to be conducted in several regions starting from June 7.
However on Monday, Scotland in a letter to Clerk of Committees Letta Barker stated that while the standing orders of the National Assembly provide for a wide latitude to the various parliamentary sectoral committees to allow them to carry out their mandate, “a public forum such as I understand the meaning
