Former speaker of the National Assembly during the PNC administration Sase Narain acknowledges that records were badly kept and that space was a problem during his tenure. He puts part of the blame on then finance minister Carl Greenidge for not making enough resources available for the upkeep of parliamentary documents.
This is in the wake of a series of revelations about what might have happened to the Hansards of 1985 – 1992, a period during which the PNC instituted its Economic Recovery Programme.
Greenidge had recently tabled a motion seeking to have Speaker Raphael Trotman enquire into the missing records and report back to the House. Trotman subsequently reported, almost a month ago, that a