– as several Ministers to sit on standing and sectoral committeesThe People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday blasted the appointment of several Government Ministers on the Parliamentary standing and sectoral committees, something it says flies in the face of the norms and customs of the constitution, in addition to article 119B of the constitution.The Committees to which Members of Parliament were nominated, yesterday, are the Parliamentary Management Committee, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the Constitution Reform Committee, the Committee of Appointments, the Oversight Committee for the Security Sector, the Parliamentary Sectoral Committees on Economic and Social services, Foreign Relations, Natural Resources, the Standing Orders Committee, the Assembly Committee, the Committee on Privileges and the Statutory Instrument Committee.Appearing at the Press Conference were former Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, and former junior Finance Minister Juan Edghill. According to Edghill, it was during the nomination to the Public Accounts Committee that it was disclosed that a sitting Minister, Volda Lawrence, would be a part of the Committee.“The Public Accounts Committee is the one where Government Accounts are scrutinized and chaired by the Opposition. To have a sitting Minister,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, whose Ministry will come under scrutiny by the same committee, sitting on the committee, is a departure from accountability, transparency and the rule of law,” Edghill declared.He also revealed that the Economic and Social services, Foreign Relations and Natural Resources Committees would be faced with the same dilemma, as this time several Ministers will be sitting on each of these committees.Edghill was adamant that this had never happened before and that when confronted about its nominations, Government MPs had stated that there is no rule or constitutional/standing order prohibiting a Government Minister from sitting on the PAC or other standing sectoral committees.“But it was never allowed for the decades these committees have been meeting. The PPP/C never had Ministers sitting on the PAC or other committees,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, they were all back benchers. And we are now advised by the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) that this is a new Government, new approach. Those are their very words” Edghill noted.Edghill went on to reveal that at the time he proposed the Government go ahead with the nominations to those committees, but that the two sides “meet and talk to find a political solution. He pointed out that “if APNU+AFC have 26 ministers out of 33 elected members of the National Assembly, they (will have difficulties) in finding non-Ministers for these Committees.”However,Authentic Jerseys Cheap, Edghill stated that his overtures were rejected, as they went ahead and named all their members to the committees. The Bishop went on to forward these events as evidence of the “insincerity and hypocrisy” of the Government, at a time when it is promulgating discussions of social cohesion.Calling these disclosures “offensive and startling”, Dr. Roger Luncheon accused the government of altering the composition of these committees solely for the purpose of providing “control that is so much a fetish” of the Government. He declared that the move by Government was “outlawed”.While the PAC is to have Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence, the Parliamentary Sectoral Committees on Economic Services will have Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder, Junior Minister of Finance Jaipaul Sharma, and Junior Minister of Social Protection Simona Broomes, with the alternate being backbencher Jennifer Wade.The PPP/C MPs on this committee were named as former Housing Minister Irfaan Ali, Edghill, Komal Chand and Collin Croal.The Ministers sitting on the Social Services Sectoral Committee are Natural Resources and Governance Minister Raphael Trotman,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, Junior Minister of Public Health Karen Cummings and Junior Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Valarie Garrido-Lowe. John Adams will be the APNU+AFC representative on the committee.For the PPP/C,NFL Jerseys China, Dr. Vindhya Persaud, Alistair Charlie and Indra Chandarpal, with Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo as an alternate, will comprise the Social Services Committee.The Foreign Relations Standing Committee will have Minister Lawrence, Minister of Indigenous Affairs Sydney Allicock, Business Affairs Minister Dominic Gaskin and Hemraj Rajkumar, with the alternate being John Adams. The PPP/C represen