By Gary EleazarOne arm of Guyana’s administration is the legislative branch which meets at the Parliament Building. When the President is not in the gathering it is referred to as the National Assembly.Guyana’s parliament has 69 seats of which the ruling administration controls 41, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) 22 and the Alliance for Change has five. They are however seeking to secure a sixth in court which they claim they won and the Guyana Action Party/Rise Organise and Rebuild (ROAR) controls one.The make up of the Members of Parliament (MP) is dependent on constituents or people who vote for others to represent their interest in the hallowed chambers,Cheap NFL Jerseys, hence the question; is the Opposition parties’ current selective participation/ boycott of the sitting of the National Assembly really a disservice to their constituents?On Thursday last, PNCR Vice Chairman, Basil Williams, explained that ever since the PPP/C’s rejection of the PNCR attempt to discuss the ‘Roger’ Khan affair, the party has announced a policy of selected participation/boycott until the Government positively responds to the call of the Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) for an international inquiry into the criminal activities in Guyana including, but not limited to, the matters revealed in the trials of ‘Roger’ Khan and his former attorney, Robert Simels.He also recalled that on one occasion prior to last Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly, the PNCR considered it necessary to attend.He said that they wanted to expose the PPPC’s attempt to dispose of the assets, to wit the 20 per cent share the people of Guyana hold in GT&T.Williams said that the government proposes to use an undisclosed procedure.Williams said that the Government, as predictable as ever,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, arrogantly refused to provide adequate answers about the reasons for that sale.The AFC, too, is guilty of boycotts of the National Assembly and prior to the first sitting of the House since its resumption from recess, recently, party leader Raphael Trotman said that his party will not participate in the first sitting since it sees the issues slated to be debated as “mundane and trivial”.He had explained that issues such as the Kwame McCoy affair,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy’s alleged involvement in the purchasing of spy equipment reportedly used by self-confessed drug dealer Roger Khan, and the army’s alleged involvement in the Lindo Creek killings are just some of the issues that should have taken precedence.Trotman said that there are a number of social issues affecting the Guyanese public to which the government is turning a blind eye while the issues on the order paper are “just business as usual”.Trotman said that he thought good sense would have prevailed in the way matters were being debated in the house but there was no ‘wow’ effect to arouse a desire to participate in that first sitting of parliament which he opined was “a rubber stamp.”Rubber stamp or not, many argue that the opposition parties may be doing a disservice to their constituents regardless of how mundane an issue is, it will affect people in one way or another and as such some representation must be made on behalf of the people that voted for them.After all, Parliamentarians, apart from volunteering their services through campaigning for elections, are paid by the people to represent their interests.An argument that can be made is that they are obligated to attend every sitting of the National Assembly the way that employees are obligated to do their jobs that they are hired to execute.The slogan “the government are servants of the people,” is oftentimes used by the opposition but it must be noted that they too are servants of the people. As such are obligated to the people to represent their interests at the highest forum in the land.The opposition could cite the position that they are bullied in the National Assembly by the ruling party and as such taking part in certain debates is pointless,China NFL Jerseys, but there is the ‘Hansard’.The Hansards of the Parliament is a written record of every utterance in the House by any member and is documented as a record.Should the allegations as these relate to what emanated in the US court regarding Government complicity in crime be proven,Cheap Jerseys From China, then the Opposition leader will be quick to point out that in the written records of the Parliament he is documented as calling on the House for an international probe that was refused.Should the argument of AFC’s Chairman in the recent debate that the amendments to the Fugitive Offenders Act are unconstitutional, then the constituents of the PNCR some