AFC PROPOSED PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA 2007-2011

 The AFC’s legislative agenda is ground breaking from the perspective it is designed to tackle some of the most troubling social and political issues affecting the wellbeing of our people. We plan to keep the National Assembly on its toes with motions and legislative amendments.

 The following Parliamentary Motions are on the drawing board: –

• GPL whose rates, service and disconnection practices are blatantly unjust.
• Increase the age of retirement with the objective of halting the hemorrhaging of scarce expertise and institutional memory, but not obstructing the promotional opportunities of young professionals while maintaining current retirement rights to time-line payment of gratuities and other benefits.
• Call on the PPPC and the PNCR to account to the nation for their failure to appoint the Public Procurement Commission
• Call on the government to fulfill its responsibility as recommended by the Constitution Reform Commission to publish the Guyana Constitution and circulate widely to the populace.
• Call for an end to radio monopoly.
• Call for the adoption the Caricom Civil Society Charter by the National Assembly.
• Examine and make recommendations for traffic regulations and building codes and practices.

The following legislative initiatives are planned: –

• Reform the Administration of Estates Laws, which often prove more costly and time consuming to acquire than the inheritance itself.
• Propose amendments to the narcotic drugs & psychotropic laws that unfairly make criminals out of our young people for a few grams of illicit drugs.
• Propose amendments to elections laws to level the playing field during the campaign period for National & Regional elections to curtail government’s misuse of state resources.
• Propose legislation to introduce political party financing for administrative purposes as well as for campaigns for National & Regional elections.
• Introduce Equal Opportunities legislation as recommended by the Caricom Heads since 1998.
• Propose amendments to correct the term in office of GECOM’s Chairman and Commissioners as well as depoliticize the method of their appointment.

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