Harmon, Gaskin, Roopnaraine and Greenidge believe in a bird in de hand

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Harmon, Gaskin, Roopnaraine and Greenidge believe in a bird in de hand

Apr 03, 2019 Dem Boys Seh, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...n-a-bird-in-de-hand/

It had to happen. People does always seh one thing but when de big man talk let no dog bark. Last week Li’l Joe seh he not in Parliament illegal. On Sunday Soulja Bai tell him that as a lawyer he should read de constitution. That is when he decide to resign.

De move ketch de opposition. None of dem couldn’t talk. Then de Chat-3 start fuh talk how dem should resign as Ministers. All people telling him that once de men resign as parliamentarians, dem also resign as Ministers, de Chat-3 couldn’t understand. He was listening to he own voice pun TV.

Dem boys seh de four coulda be real Guyanese and give up de odda citizenship. But one man seh how people always live like labba—dem got two hole suh when dem run in one and de hunter think he got de labba de animal does bolt out de odda hole.

Charranrass had a blowhole. When he vote fuh topple de government he use de Canadian citizenship to get out de country.

Dem boys seh de four know that if dem lose de elections dem can always jump pun a plane and leave. And if de new government want to jail any of dem all of dem can do Charranrass. De odda thing is that once dem lose de elections rest assured de new government wouldn’t give dem wuk.

And dem can’t collect a salary from parliament; dem might get a small pension but nutten like de pension Jagdeo does get because dem can’t go back as parliamentarians like some of de people.

Dem boys seh one thing is certain. Soulja Bai don’t intend to lose de elections. He seh he obeying de court. He don’t intend to be like Jagdeo who refuse to obey two court order. He hope de people gun seh how he decent. Hoyte was decent too.

De reality is that dem four politicians—Harmon, Greenidge, Gaskin and Roopnaraine been to school and dem learn that a bird in de hand worth a dozen in de bush.

Talk half and wait fuh more resignations.

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Resignation of MPs to take effect after required processes applied – President

-three APNU ministers to renounce foreign citizenship

By Staff Editor 3 h ago, April 03, 2019, Stabroek News, https://www.stabroeknews.com/2...s-applied-president/

President David Granger today said that the resignation of four MPs who are dual citizens won’t take effect until all of the requisite constitutional steps are followed.

This means they may likely be in attendance at the April 11th sitting of the National Assembly.

A statement from the Ministry of the Presidency also said that the three APNU ministers of government: Joseph Harmon, Carl Greenidge and Dr Rupert Roopnaraine will renounced their foreign citizenship.

The statement from the Ministry of the Presidency follows:

Resignation of MPs to take effect after Constitutional processes are applied

– three APNU ministers who resigned to renounce foreign citizenship

Georgetown, Guyana – (April 3, 2019) President David Granger, this morning, stated that while he has accepted the resignation of the four-coalition government Members of Parliament, their resignations will not take effect immediately as there are several processes which have to be applied.

The Head of State made it clear that the replacement of Members of Parliament (MPs) can be done only when those MPs submit their letters of resignation to the Speaker of the National Assembly as is prescribed by the Constitution of Guyana.

Article 156 (1) (A) of the Constitution states that “A member of the National Assembly shall vacate his or her seat therein – if he or she resigns it by writing under his or her own hand addressed to the Speaker or, if the Office of the Speaker if vacant or the Speaker is absent from Guyana, to the Deputy Speaker.”

Further, Article 156 (3) says a member of the National Assembly elected on a List shall cease to be a member of the Assembly, if:

(a) He or she declares in writing to the Speaker or to the Representative of the List from which his or her name was extracted that he or she will not support the List from which his or her name was extracted;

(b) He or she declares in writing to the Speaker or to the Representative of the List from which his or her name was extracted, his or her support for another List;

(c) The Representative of List from which his or her name was extracted indicates in writing to the Speaker that after meaningful consultation with the Party or Parties that make up the List that the Party or Parties have lost confidence in that member and the representative of the List issues a written notice of recall to that member and forwards a copy of that notice to the Speaker.

Additionally, Article 156 (4) (a) says, “The Speaker shall declare the seat of a Member of the National Assembly vacant where –

(a) the Speaker receives a written declaration of the Member of the National Assembly as provided for in paragraph 3 (a) or (b);

(b) the Representative of the List issues a notice of recall as provided for in paragraph 3 (c).

The President reminded that the nomination of new members can be done only after the extraction of names from the National Top-Up list is approved by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

As such, the four ministers, Mr. Carl Greenidge, Mr. Joseph Harmon, Mr. Dominic Gaskin and Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine will remain ministers until the aforementioned processes are completed

The President, moreover, has not approved replacements at this time.

On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Government announced that the President received and accepted the resignation of all coalition MPs who are the holders of dual citizenship.

The resignation of the ministers is in keeping with the Constitution of Guyana as well as the March 22, 2019 ruling of the Court of Appeal relative to the validity of the no-confidence motion passed on December 21, 2018.

Meanwhile, the three A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Ministers of Government who have since resigned from the National Assembly have indicated that they will renounce their foreign citizenship.

4/3/191:56 PM