PPP/C MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Appointments used their majority yesterday to select former PNC MP Dunstan Barrow as their nominee for the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board triggering a walkout by opposition MPs who had favoured chartered accountant Christopher Ram.
It was the PPP/C MPs’ adamant stance that caused the opposition to walk out of the committee meeting saying that it makes no sense them being a part of the process when all of their recommendations will be dismissed.
“After submissions from opposition and the narrowing down of first six and then three persons… then two, the PPP/C said they wanted Dunstan Barrow and although I pleaded and reasoned, seems nothing could change that…,” Ramjattan told Stabroek News yesterday following the committee meeting.
