De Speaker is nat de problem

De Opposition want de government to makepublichowdemoniesallocatedfuhde gas-to-shoreproject,willbeproperlyspent. Demtableamotiontodiseffect.Itisfuhde National Assembly fuh debate de motion andtopassit.

De Speaker is nat a Judge who gan instructdegovernmenttodoanything.Even ifdeNationalAssemblypassdemotion,de Speaker cannot compel de government fuh complywithdemotion.

Nuff motion pass wah nah comply with by de government. We therefore gat to dis nonsense about de Speaker having a say in dematter

What de Speaker gat a say about is whetherdemattercanbedebatedasmatter ofdefinite,publicandurgentimportance.If deOppositionhopingtohavedebusinessof de NationalAssembly suspended to debate ondismatter,demganbedisappointed.Dis motion will not qualify as a matter of definite, public and urgent attention. It might meet de test of being definite and of public importance but not necessarily urgent.

Fuh de matter to be urgent, de matter must have arisen suddenly and be of clear emergency Despendingondegas-to-shoreproject has not arisen suddenly and is nat a clearemergency

As such, de motion will have to run its normalcourseandwaititsturnsubjecttobe placedondeOrderPaper Butdebusinessof de National Assembly is nat likely to be suspendedjustfuhdebatedismotion.

Deproblemwithdegas-to-shoreproject is nat de spending. Is de project itself becausedemnahgatnofeasibilitystudydat isspecifictodeproject.

Therefore,insteadofbotheringaboutde spending,demotionshouldhavebeenabout whetherdeprojectmeksenseornot.

Talkhalf.Leffhalf!

Guyanaalonewouldbeover $900 for an economy seat. And the rates our hotels charge would mean that the averagetouristwouldbeleft pennilessafterthefirstweek inGuyana.

However, with twenty five per cent of our visitors coming from the Caribbean and with air fares being relatively cheap, Guyana could capitalize on arrivals from the Caribbean if it schedules its Republican Day events as part of an extendedweekend.

There are a number of events slated around Mashramani. But since the celebrationsarenotlikelyto be a major tourist attraction, it is left to Guyanese to help sustained this festival. As they have done for years now!

Assuch,itismuchbetter if instead of trying to attract visitors to Mashramani, greater attention is made to enhance local participation by having varied events whichcatertoallraces,ages and which are hosted in all regionsofGuyana.

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