–despite uncertainty of Sitting date

THE National Assembly resumed on October 10, after its constitutionally mandated three-month recess. And though no Sitting of the National Assembly has been held to date, several Committees have already begun work.Last Wednesday, the Parliamentary Management Committee, which is chaired by the Speaker, met and discussed several matters of importance, including a possible date for the next Sitting; Parliament’s role in the Lead Project; training, workshops and conferences to be attended by Members of Parliament, including a return visit to the Parliament of Suriname, at the invitation of the Surinamese Speaker of the House, who paid a visit Guyana to Guyana last October.
According to a release from Parliament Office, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association also met on Wednesday to consider the report of the 16th Biennial Regional Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and to look at several other issues on that Committee’s agenda.
The Special Select Committee on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013-Bill22/2013 also met, and the Chairperson, Ms. Gail Teixeira, briefed the Members of the meeting on Guyana’s appearance before the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) in June of this year, the release said, while the Public Accounts Committee, chaired by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament, Mr. Carl Greenidge, met yesterday to reschedule dates for the examination of agencies in the report of the Auditor General on the public accounts of Guyana for the year 2012, and to consider outstanding matters to be addressed by the Auditor General, the Finance Secretary and the Accountant General. This latter Committee is expected to meet again on Monday, October 27.
In addition to these meetings, Parliament Office said through its release, the Foreign Relations Committee would be visiting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Re-migrant Section and Protocol Division on Wednesday, October 29 to discuss issues relating remigration etc., and to examine the operations of the existing system in the Protocol Division.