Constitutional compliance needed, not reform - Nandlall

was mostly genial with a brief altercation between opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira and Trotman.

Teixeira as a member of the audience rose to request that the bill presently before the house be withdrawn as it specifically identifies sections of the public to be consulted during the reform process.

She argued that the general tone of the presentations yesterday was that the widest possible consultations are necessary and the delimitations in the bill would prevent such from occurring.

Trotman in response noted that the Bill before the house is the same one written by himself and Teixeira several years ago and that any delimitations are not absolute.

“Government has no intention of leaving anyone out of consultations,” he stressed. Teixeira attempts to respond were loudly objected to by the audience and she took her seat.

The Turkeyen- Tain talks is a bi-monthly thought fora to facilitate informed and respectful discourse on matters of public interest that have significant national, regional or international implications, enable the university to serve as a public intellectual broker allowing the academic, civic, business, diplomatic and other communities to listen to and learn from each other as well as to offer meaningful evidence- based and policyrelevant engagement between UG students, lecturers, researchers and alumni on the one hand and the public and private sectors and the international community on the other.

Speakers at last evening’s talk included Nandlall; Trotman; Indra Chandarpal of the Women and Gender Equality Commission; Rosemary Benjamin-Noble, Rights of the Child Commission; Shameza David, Guyana National Youth Counci;, Jean La Rose of the Amerindian People’s Association, Vincent Alexander and Terrence Campbell of RISE Guyana.