Rohee denies claims corruption rife at GRO

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee has denied claims by Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix that the General Registrar’s Office (GRO) is highly corrupt, questioning the process followed in partnering with the Triumph International Group (TIG) to review registration of births and deaths.

The GRO had fallen under the purview of Rohee, while he was home affairs minister in the former government. And while he denounced the recent remarks by Felix during a press briefing yesterday, he said, “The public would like to know how transparent the process was in hiring the Triumph International Group to do a legislative review of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act.”

The PPP general secretary said Felix had spoken about transparency and corruption, but TIG, the firm hired to