Rohee unaware if PPP congress date on agenda for Central Committee meeting

While the Central Committee of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is due to meet this weekend, the party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee says that he does not know if a date for the party’s next congress will be set.

“No, I am not aware of that but the Central Committee is meeting this weekend,” Rohee said when asked by Stabroek News if a date will be set.

The last PPP congress was held in Berbice in August, 2013 and one is due this year, according to the party’s constitution. But sources have told Stabroek News that the issue is not being discussed by the hierarchy of the party and it is very unlikely that it will come