More productive cooperation needed from elected leaders

Religious groups yesterday urged elected national leaders to commit to working together more productively in order to ensure peace and development.

“We believe Guyana can make greater progress towards peace and development if there is a commitment from our elected national leaders to work together more productively, beginning in Parliament and radiating outwards to the rest of the country,” the leaders of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana, the Guyana Presbyterian Church, the Inter-Religious Organisation, the Practical Christian Ministries and the Roman Catholic Church said in a joint statement.

They group said that last week Friday, their representatives had cause to attend a sitting of the National Assembly “to express concern about civility and conduct in our Parliament and our country, and the example that the