Four members co-opted to PNC/R executive committee
Stabroek News
August 26, 2002
The PNC/R has co-opted four other persons to sit on its central executive committee with the 15 members elected at its just concluded thirteenth biennial congress.
The four members are parliamentarians Myrna Peterkin and Andy Goveia, co-opted by party leader, Desmond Hoyte, in exercise of his sole discretion; and parliamentarian Clarissa Riehl and Yvonne Harewood-Benn, who chairs the party's public relations committee, co-opted by the central executive committee as a whole. Under the constitution Hoyte and the committee can co-opt up to five members each.
Party General Secretary, Oscar Clarke, said that the other six members would be co-opted after more consideration by Hoyte and the committee.
The 15 elected members, nine of whom are 40 and below are Ivor Allen, Amna Ally, Debra Backer, Deryck Bernard, Lance Carberry, Oscar Clarke, Faith Harding, Dr Dalgleish Joseph, Volda Lawrence, James McAllister, Alan Munroe, Aubrey Norton, Artie Ricknauth, Raphael Trotman and Basil Williams.
Besides Hoyte, the other officers who are members of the committee are chairman Robert Corbin and vice-chairman, Vincent Alexander as well as Cheryl Sampson and Lurlene Nestor, chairmen of the National Congress of Women and the Guyana Youth and Students' Movement, the women's and youth arm of the party. The party's constitution also provides for representatives elected by the party's regional bodies to sit on the central executive committee. Since the electoral alliance with the REFORM, two representatives from that body also attend its meetings.