-Trotman told by senior legal practitioner
President Donald Ramotar is not bound by the passage of the motion of no confidence against Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, a senior legal practitioner has advised Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman.
Trotman has also been advised that Rohee can continue to perform his functions as the motion does not bind either the minister or the Prime Minister to obey it. “However, in other jurisdictions he would have been forced by convention to resign as a Minister,” the senior counsel wrote in his advice to Trotman, which was seen by Stabroek News.
Trotman sought advice on the enforceability of the opposition-led motion, which was passed by the National Assembly in July. At the last sitting of the National Assembly, on October 22, 2012, during the