Speaker asks Commonwealth to mediate impasse over Parliament

Raphael Trotman

House Speaker Raphael Trotman has appealed for the Commonwealth’s intervention to resolve the political gridlock between the government and the opposition in the wake of President Donald Ramotar’s suspension of the Parliament.

“The Guyana Parliament, as a Member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, urges you to use your good offices, together with the entire weight of the Association, to intervene so that we could have a return to democracy,” Trotman wrote yesterday in a letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma.

“To this end, I invite you to send a delegation to Guyana to engage all sides of this disagreement so that this unhealthy situation may be brought to a speedy and peaceful end,” he added.

President Ramotar on Monday issued a proclamation to prorogue