New faces in Parliament…Veerasammy Ramayya – AFC

This is the eleventh in our series on new parliamentarians

A lean clean government which is transparent in its actions and accountable to the nation is what new Alliance For Change (AFC) parliamentarian Dr Veerasammy Ramayya hopes the new dispensation in the National Assembly can achieve in the next five years.

“It is hoped that there would be more transparency, more participation and the people, the tax payers must know how their money is being spent,” Dr Ramayya said in an interview with the Sunday Stabroek.

Not new to the world of politics, Dr Ramayya, who practices alternative medicine, has been on the ground in Berbice working for and with the ordinary people against a party his father was affiliated with and one that gave him his first taste in politics. Like many, for