Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran yesterday said that Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira was wrong when she identified him as one of three persons who came up with an amendment to the 2003 Procurement Bill phasing out the role of Cabinet in the award of contracts.
“This is such an audacious distortion of the truth that it reminds me of the instance in May 2010 when Ms. Teixeira told the UN’s Universal Periodic Review in Geneva that 15 year old Twyon Thomas, who had been tortured by the police, had been compensated. Upon her return to Guyana she denied saying so until she was confronted with a verbatim transcript of the webcast which she tried unsuccessfully to explain away,” Ramkarran said in a letter to Stabroek News. (See page 6.)
The former Speaker was responding to an article in the Sunday Stabroek which reported Teixeira, who is also the PPP/C parliamentary chief whip, as saying that an amendment in 2003 to the 2003 Procurement Bill phasing out the role of Cabinet had not been approved by the
