Government and opposition continue bickering over security reform initiative

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Government and opposition were continuing their barbs over the need to reform the security system in Guyana with the embattled Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee saying it is “very regrettable” that the opposition parties were not willing to support the new initiative. The Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) have both said while they welcomed the initiative they were not prepared to work with Rohee on the matter. The APNU said it wanted the government to lay in the National Assembly, the Capita-Symonds Report that had been handed over to Rohee in March 2011 “and now forms the basis of the new plan.