{"id":438,"date":"2009-11-16T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-11-16T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:29:07","slug":"parliamentary-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AFC PROPOSED PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA 2007-2011<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">The AFC\u2019s 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. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">The following <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parliamentary Motions <\/span>are on the drawing board: &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">GPL whose rates, service and disconnection practices are blatantly unjust. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Call on the PPPC and the PNCR to account to the nation for their failure to appoint the Public Procurement Commission<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Call for an end to radio monopoly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Call for the adoption the Caricom Civil Society Charter by the National Assembly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Examine and make recommendations for traffic regulations and building codes and practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">The following <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">legislative initiatives<\/span> are planned: &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Reform the Administration of Estates Laws, which often prove more costly and time consuming to acquire than the inheritance itself. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Propose amendments to the narcotic drugs &amp; psychotropic laws that unfairly make criminals out of our young people for a few grams of illicit drugs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Propose amendments to elections laws to level the playing field during the campaign period for National &amp; Regional elections to curtail government\u2019s misuse of state resources. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Propose legislation to introduce political party financing for administrative purposes as well as for campaigns for National &amp; Regional elections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Introduce Equal Opportunities legislation as recommended by the Caricom Heads since 1998.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;\">Propose amendments to correct the term in office of GECOM\u2019s Chairman and Commissioners as well as depoliticize the method of their appointment. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC PROPOSED PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA 2007-2011 \u00a0The AFC\u2019s 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. 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