Hoyte successor committee to report on progress Stabroek News March 10, 2000 The committee which was set up to identify possible candidates from whom a successor to PNC leader, Desmond Hoyte, would be chosen will report on its progress when the party's general council meets later this month. The committee was established following the party's first general council meeting in January. The members of the committee are PNC Chairman Winston Murray, Vice-Chairman Vincent Alexander and Treasurer Kadim Khan. The convenor is General Secretary, Oscar Clarke and it has representatives from Regions Four and Two, where the party has its largest number of members. The committee was set up consequent to a decision at a leadership retreat last year that it should seek to identify potential leaders from the regions. Nothing was done following the decision, but increasing concern among some sections of the party's membership that the party should not go to the next elections with the same leader forced the issue at the January meeting. They expect that the leadership question would come to a head at the party's next congress which was postponed last year and is scheduled to be held before the elections are due. The party's congresses are normally held in August but there are fears, according to sources close to the party, that there would be attempts to shift it if the elections are not to be held in January.