Ramjattan warns of plan to buy MPs

Khemraj Ramjattan

Be on your toes.  This is the message from AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan to opposition parliamentarians as a vote on the budget nears and as they plan to bring amendments to certain legislation in the future.

“We also have to be on our toes because we know, and I want to make this quite clear, we know of a strategy whereby government is now trying to buy two or three parliamentarians on the opposition side to just cut that thing: let us fall sick on a very important day for voting,” he told an AFC-sponsored symposium on the 2012 budget yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel. “And it could very well