Since quorum change…three meetings of PAC cancelled after absence of gov’t members

Jermaine Figueira

Three scheduled sittings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)  of Parliament have been cancelled in recent months as a result of absences by the government side in the aftermath of a quorum change in April this year.

Of the three cancelled meetings, the first was scheduled in May while the latter two were scheduled in July.

PAC Chairman, Jermaine Figueira on Wednesday said that the non-attendance of government members is testimony to arguments by opposition MPs when the quorum-change motion was debated in the National Assembly.