-as business community urges compromise
President Donald Ramotar yesterday said that government will be taking the necessary steps to defend embattled Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, in light of a decision by Speaker Raphael Trotman to limit his participation in the National Assembly pending the result of an inquiry on a motion to gag him.
Ramotar suggested the decision was premature and in effect presumed the minister’s guilt, whereas Trotman stood by his ruling and said it would pave the way for other parliamentary business, which has so far been held up by the impasse