{"id":3996,"date":"2012-08-15T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2012-08-15T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:44:08","slug":"linden-proteststime-to-break-the-deadlock-raphael-trotman-kn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"Linden protests\u2026Time to break the deadlock \u2013 Raphael Trotman (KN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Speaker calls for urgent \u2018Third Party\/Honest Broker\u2019 to take over<\/p>\n

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The talks between the Region 10 Administration and Central Government through Office of the President are deadlocked and a third party to act as an \u201chonest broker\u201d is being called for immediately.<\/p>\n

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Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, yesterday weighed in on the current impasse at Linden and told this publication \u201cthe situation is crying out for third-party intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Speaker says that the people of Linden, \u201cand all Guyana, have had enough of this messy situation and of the blame-throwing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trotman says that in his opinion the Church, (through representatives such as the Roman Catholic and Anglican Bishops and Pentecostal leaders) and the UNDP, working together, \u201care the best poised institutions to enter into the fray and have the confidence and support of the major stakeholders and the wider public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trotman believed that anyone familiar with negotiations would realise that the talks taking place at Office of the President \u201chave become stuck as a result of several predictable factors including fatigue, pride and an overall inability to bring closure to the matters agreed on in principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trotman is adamant that \u201cthe parties must put national interest first and allow a facilitator(s) in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He warned that others such as the business and mining sector \u201cwill be accused of having an interest to serve\u201d and as such would not allow for the required impact, to be had, by being involved in the process at this stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cTime is of the essence,\u201d he cautioned, even as he posited that the circumstances currently are such, that \u201ceven with the best intentions, resolution will remain evasive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trotman said that \u201call those who have been struggling to bring an end to the situation, either in talks or by protest; all of whom are understandably wary as to the way forward,\u201d must be commended.<\/p>\n

According to the official, by now it is patently obvious \u201cboth sides have tried to reach consensus, but despite their efforts, the end remains elusive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He suggests that the road towards a return to normalcy \u201cmust see a third group acting as a honest broker\u2026entering the scene as facilitator and to act as a buffer between the two sides who frustratingly keep meeting and coming up empty-handed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Trotman says that it is imperative that the talks between the stakeholders recommence, but this must \u201cbe supported by an injection of something new and different as a sort of sweetener to bring closure\u2026. At this stage we need to begin thinking out of the box\u2026.Third-party intervention is the recommended way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the July 18th killing of three demonstrators at the Wismar\/Mackenzie Bridge in Linden, a team headed by Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon and Head of State, Donald Ramotar, along with his delegation had been meeting at OP with a view to resolutions.<\/p>\n

Those talks broke down on Friday last, mere hours before an anticipated \u2018consensual resolution\u2019 could have been inked at Office of the President.<\/p>\n

The Joint Services at the time had moved into the mining town to remove the blockades and another violent clash had broken out in the now besieged community.<\/p>\n

Other officials involved in the now stalemate negotiations at Office of the President are APNU\u2019s second in command, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to the Defence Board, Dr. Roger Luncheon, former PNCR Member of Parliament, Aubrey Norton, Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira, and recently elected Chairman of the Alliance for Change, Nigel Hughes, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Speaker calls for urgent \u2018Third Party\/Honest Broker\u2019 to take over The talks between the Region 10 Administration and Central Government through Office of the President are deadlocked and a third party to act as an \u201chonest broker\u201d is being called for immediately. Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, yesterday weighed in on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-12s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}