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PUP Supports Position of Social Partners On PAC
posted (November 11, 2013)
On Friday we told you about the social partners, the Chamber and the Labour groups lukewarm reaction to the UDP's re-loaded Public Accounts Committee Proposal. We haven't yet gotten a reaction from John Saldivar who framed the proposal, because he was out of the country. But the PUP - which has mostly stayed out of the UDP-lead discussion thus far - says it quote, "welcomes the latest proposal being offered by the BCCI and the NTUCB for a re- composition of the Public Accounts Committee."

The PUP says it supports the social partners' proposal for a nine member PAC, with a quorum of five, and the proposal for a MINORITY OPINION to form a part of the reports of the PAC when sent back to the House of Representatives - the last two being, government proposals. Still today's PUP release says it calls "on the UDP Government to immediately join us in supporting this proposal."

So with the PUP and the Social partners on the same page - and the UDP getting there, what will happen next? Well that depends on the framer of the revised PAC Proposal John Saldivar, who told us today that he had just returned from a regional meeting in Guyana and would have comment tomorrow.

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