{"id":30035,"date":"2026-05-21T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30035"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:46:13","slug":"min-teixeira-says-national-assembly-to-convene-in-the-new-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/min-teixeira-says-national-assembly-to-convene-in-the-new-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Min. Teixeira says National Assembly to convene in the new month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira has described as regrettable\u00a0recent comments from members of the diplomatic corps concerning the sittings of the National\u00a0Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minister&#8217;s comments followed reports that sections of the diplomatic corps had\u00a0expressed concern about the National Assembly not meeting for more than 90 days since the\u00a0passage of the 2026 national budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;It is regrettable that the ambassadors and those embassies and high commissions did not\u00a0see it fit to first engage the government as the ruling party in the house, in the National\u00a0Assembly, in terms of what its plans were for parliament and if there was or was not\u00a0a sitting planned,&#8221;<\/strong> she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the minister, had those discussions taken place, diplomats would have been informed\u00a0that a sitting of the National Assembly is scheduled for June 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Unfortunately, this seems to be like a new style of diplomacy, where our friends and\u00a0allies in these embassies believe they should only listen to one side of the story and not\u00a0listen to the other side, and the other side in this case is the government,&#8221; <\/strong>she added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minister expressed hope that future engagements with the diplomatic community will be more\u00a0respectful and balanced, while making clear that matters relating to Guyana&#8217;s legislative\u00a0agenda remain the responsibility of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira has described as regrettable\u00a0recent comments from members of the diplomatic corps concerning the sittings of the National\u00a0Assembly. The minister&#8217;s comments followed reports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[488,370,846,642,412,405],"class_list":["post-30035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-parliamentary-affairs-and-governance","tag-national-assembly","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30037,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30035\/revisions\/30037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}