Six staff members of the Parliament Office who work in the Committees Division left on Sunday for London to do a week of training at the House of Commons in Westminster, a British High Commission press release stated.
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association–UK (CPA-UK) branch is providing the training with co-funding from the British High Commission in Georgetown.
According to the release, the training will cover operations of parliamentary committees, such as the Public Accounts Committee, parliamentary procedures and practices, research methodologies and oversight.
The staff on training are Debra Cadogan, Nickalai Pryce, Candayce Girard, Sonia Maxwell, Darlene Marshall and Jocette Bacchus, the release stated.
Handing over the airline tickets to the staff, acting British High Commissioner Simon Bond noted that in the last 25 years the committees system has been transforming the UK Parliament, providing both an essential forum for investigation of issues of public concern, work on legislation, and fulfilling a key function holding government departments to account.
Committee work was now central to the way the UK Parliament functions, the release noted.
Meanwhile Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran thanked the British High Commission, the Government of the UK and the CPA for their continued interest and support.
And while noting that the National Assembly here has a short history of doing committee work, he said the training was therefore very important.
“I see an increasing role for committees. They can add to the reputation of parliament, especially in its reports to the electorate,” Ramkarran is quoted as saying.
