Whenever the opposition PNCR provides a photograph of the former Leader of the Opposition and President Desmond Hoyte to the Office of the Parliament it would be placed in the parliament chambers, Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran said.
Asked why there was no photograph of the late lawmaker and President in the parliament chambers along with other leading MPs and Presidents Arthur Chung, Forbes Burnham and Dr Cheddi Jagan, Ramkarran told Stabroek News that whenever the opposition provides the profile, the Parliament Office would be happy to accommodate it.
Ramkarran does not know who placed Chung and Burnham’s portraits in the chambers, but he said that the Parliament Office had agreed to place a portrait of Dr Jagan in the chambers at the request of the PPP after speaking with the opposition on the matter.
The PPP provided the portrait. A space was left to accommodate a portrait of Hoyte between the portraits of Burnham and Dr Jagan, he said. Contacted yesterday, PNCR leader Robert Corbin said that he was in Buxton dealing with more urgent issues than Hoyte’s photograph.