Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, has informed APNU+AFC Parliamentarian and former minister, David Patterson that convening a sitting of Parliament before a public holiday is not unusual and listed several instances to support his claim, thus rejecting the Alliance For Change’s (AFC’s) call for today’s scheduled parliamentary sitting to be pushed back.
In a letter of July 29th addressed to Patterson and seen by this newspaper, the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs, stated that he was instructed by the Speaker to inform that the convening of a Sitting before a Public Holiday is not unusual and that there are several precedents in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Guyana, as follows: