Privileges Committee to mull complaint against Ashni Singh on Friday

The Privileges Committee is set to convene on Friday to discuss Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh’s spending of $4.5B without the approval of the National Assembly.

The government’s Chief Whip, Gail Teixeira revealed yesterday that the Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman will convene the committee just before Parliament is slated to go into recess.

Trotman had ruled in favour of APNU MP Carl Greenidge’s motion to have Singh referred to the