MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) will continue to meet in the National Assembly’s Chambers, according to House Speaker Raphael Trotman. 

This was the pledge he made on Monday, following President Donald Ramotar’s move to prorogue Parliament, as he explained that these meetings are a means of addressing current and topical issues of national concern.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who is also Leader of the House, on Wednesday told the Guyana Chronicle that these meetings could be useful.
“These meetings may turn out to be helpful; they are not meetings of the National Assembly, but they may turn out to be useful. If it helps to cool tempers down eventually and allow us to have dialogue, it could be useful,” he said.
Meanwhile, the House Speaker on Wednesday maintained his commitment to convening the meetings as promised, but was unable at the time to say when the next one will be scheduled.
The prorogation of Parliament resulted in the suspension of the first session of the 10th Parliament and the period can last up to six months.
President Ramotar, at the time of announcing that he had prorogued Parliament, made it clear that his intention was to give dialogue a chance to address the impasses that have characterised the political arena since the 2011 elections, rather than have Parliament dissolved, as promised by the combined opposition, via the Alliance for Change (AFC) sponsored no-confidence motion.
The act of prorogation is constitutionally rooted, as indicated in Section 70 (1) of Guyana’s Constitution.