PRESIDENT of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Clinton Urling, has said that the will of the Speaker of the National Assembly and the process of the Parliament should be respected.

He made this statement during a press conference at the Chamber’s boardroom on Waterloo Street yesterday.
Urling said that the work of the Parliament should go on, free of bickering that does the country more harm than anything else. He added that there’s much substantive work to be done in the interest of the people of Guyana, and that there are very pertinent issues such as constitutional reform, local government reform, and the budgetary preparations for next year’s budget presentation that need to be discussed in a cordial manner.
“We need our parliamentarians to be talking about these issues, discussing and ventilating these issues and not get caught up in petty discussions about who can and cannot speak in Parliament, which unfortunately took up two sessions to date.”
He described the actions of the parliamentarians as displaying alarming immaturity and idiocy, and urged that the Chamber wants to see political cooperation and stability, as opposed to conflict.
“The Chamber is calling on the parliamentarians to live up to a logic of compromise as opposed to a logic of confrontation,” he emphasised.
Urling added that the confidence in the parliamentarians is at an all time low and that it’s something that needs to be looked at.
“For the first time there’s a situation where debate and discussions could prevail or should prevail, but we’ve seen externalities and grandstanding egos taking over, and persons, just for political mileage, holding up the work of the Parliament and that’s very unfortunate,” he said.