Guyana: Constitutional reform planned before end of 2016

By Denis Chabrol , 17 February 2016
Head of the steering committee on constitutional reform, Nigel Hughes (left) delivering the report to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo (photo credit: Demerara waves)
Head of the steering committee on constitutional reform, Nigel Hughes (left) delivering the report to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo (photo credit: Demerara waves)
<p>Guyana’s Constitution will undergo a third reform process later this year, since it came into being in 1980.</p><p>“It is envisaged that some time this year that a Constitutional Reform Commission ought to be comprised-a broad-based commission so that this process should take place,” Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo told the National Assembly.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Responding to questions from the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) during the consideration of the 2016 budgetary estimates, he said the final report&nbsp; by the steering committee on constitutional reform is expected to be presented by June, 2016.</span></p>
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