Cabinet has noted what it says is the PNCR's increasing efforts to disengage from the constructive engagement between President Bharrat Jagdeo and PNCR Leader Robert Corbin.
So said Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon at his post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday at the Office of the President. "The disengagement is reflected in the failure of the high reps to meet and the failure of the leaders to meet," he said.
He made reference to the setting up of the long-awaited service and rights commissions and the parliamentary sectoral committees as some of the fruits of the engagement, which he said are irreversible.
According to Luncheon, the PNCR has submitted that the allegation that Minister of Home Affairs Ronald Gajraj is somehow connected with the activities of death squads is the sole source of the disengagement.
Corbin had referred to the state of the talks as "precarious" and said only time will tell how successful the engagement is.
When contacted yesterday afternoon on the matter, Corbin said that he preferred not to comment until he had heard everything that Luncheon had said on the subject.