Though it failed to pass, a PPP/C motion on last year’s ruinous fire at the Camp Street jail saw Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan taking the heat over measures that the opposition MPs felt should have been taken.
Using a motion, moved by its Chief Whip Gail Teixeira for suspended member Juan Edghill, opposition members yesterday sought to have government accept collective responsibility for repeated disastrous events in the prisons here.
Teixeira said that the motion came into being, “because the government was being very reluctant to speak on what was going on”.
On the 9th of July, 2017, fire set by inmates
