Government Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has refused to comment on the criticisms of the timing of the administration’s decision to seek to bring AFC Members of Parliament Khemraj Ramjattan and Cathy Hughes before the National Assembly’s Privileges Committee over conflicts of interests.
Teixeira admitted that she was aware that there are criticisms given the timing of the government’s decision to move against Ramjattan and Hughes but she noted that she will not add “conjecture on such things.”
Stabroek News asked why the government has taken over a year to set in motion its attempt to send Ramjattan and Hughes before the Privileges Committee and if the move was directly tied to the Speaker’s recent ruling that the Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh would be sent before the committee over the spending of $4.5 billion that was expressly denied by the National Assembly.
Teixeira stated that her letters to the Speaker of the House Raphael Trotman on July 15 was not the first time
