No progress on procurement commission

There are more important things on the government’s agenda than the long-delayed Public Procurement Commission (PPC), presidential adviser Gail Teixeira says, even as none of the political parties have submitted their nominees to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and there have been no moves to further discuss the issue.

Earlier last year the parties had agreed to arrive at the names of the members of the long-delayed PPC via consensus and on May 10, 2012, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett had announced