Ramjattan blasts gov’t over ‘stealthy’ $1.3B New GPC contract

AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan last evening flayed the government over the award of another major contract to the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation, which contract he said has once again evaded the tendering process.

Describing the process of awarding the whopping $1.3B contract as “stealthy,” Ramjattan said it appeared as if the government awarded the contract hurriedly to beat the setting up of the Public Procurement Commission.

The Government Informa-tion Agency (GINA) last week reported that Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon had