Government Chief Whip Gail Teixeira yesterday accused the opposition of deliberately derailing the efforts to pass the anti-money laundering amendment bill since it was tabled in April, saying its sole focus seems to be to bring down the government at all costs.
Teixeira said the record of the participation of APNU and the AFC in the parliamentary select committee that worked on the bill clearly shows that they had no intention of supporting it and she pointed out that not one amendment was ever presented by the opposition on the discussions of the bill.
“The opposition gleefully saw this as an opportunity to harm the government and if it cost Guyana, its economy and the wellbeing of its people, then so be it,” Teixeira, who chaired the committee, said in a seven-page statement released last night, in what is the latest government reaction to the defeat of the bill in the National Assembly last Thursday. “The bill became the
