Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs has gone mum on the issue of ministerial housing rentals while the country’s chief financial officer, Finance Minister Winston Jordan refuses to explain who approved the expenditure.
Isaacs had previously revealed that an administrative decision was made to rent living accommodations for out-of-town Ministers at a maximum cost of $500,000 per month. He had however not revealed who made this decision and has since said that he will no longer be commenting publicly on the matter.
“As a senior public servant I do not believe it is in the best interest of my office to continue to comment on this issues which has become politicized in the public domain,” he told Stabroek News yesterday.
He referred this newspaper to a letter he wrote to the editor which was published in yesterday’s edition as
