Former T&T prime minister Basdeo Panday
AS Prime Minister Keith Rowley gets ready to sign a controversial Memorandum of Understanding to promote cooperation between T&T and Guyana on energy issues in Georgetown today, a search of the Parliamentary records reveals that in June 1996 he opposed the debt relief programme that the Basdeo Panday administration agreed to grant Guyana in May 1996.
The issue of T&Tβs cancellation of hundreds of millions of Guyanese US dollar debt arose last week following push back among Guyanese politicians and private sector leaders over the signing of the MoU.