PM says proposed amendment won’t weaken integrity law

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has claimed that planned amendments to the Integrity Commission Act to include the proposed Ministerial Code of Conduct aims to place members of the executive in charge of enforcing the legislation but Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has refuted it.

According to Nagamootoo, under the current law, it is the executive which has the right to discipline ministers and the amendment does not change this.