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Bheri Scandal: “A decent President would have sacked him already” – Legal Fraternity

April 29, 2015 6:11 am Category: latest news A+ / A-

 

 

Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran and Sherlina Nageer during the exchange in front the Whim's Magistrate's Court. [Mark Jacobs' Photo]

Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran and Sherlina Nageer during the exchange in front the Whim’s Magistrate’s Court. [Mark Jacobs’ Photo]

 
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The Guyana Bar Association (GBA), the Guyana Women Lawyers Association (GWLA) and Justice Institute Guyana (JIG) have said that President Donald Ramotar’s reluctance to sack Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran is an indication of some form of indecency.

 

Ramsaran is currently embroiled in a nasty scandal involving women’s rights activist, Sherlina Nageer.

A recording had surfaced where the Minister in an invective with Nageer during which he promised to “slap” and “strip” the woman all the while telling her that she was a little piece of “sh!t.”

The legal bodies in a release to the media on Tuesday, April 28 made it clear that the utterances are not to be condoned by the sitting Minister of Government.

“Dr Ramsaran’s threat to slap and strip a young woman would be a disgusting conduct by any man. They are particularly reprehensible coming from a Member of Parliament and Minister of Government. A decent Minister would have resigned by now. A decent President would have sacked him already,” noted the joint statement from the legal fraternity.

The statement said that the Minister’s behaviour was “intolerable, abusive, insulting and obscene.”

“Dr Ramsaran’s behaviour has been reported across the globe. He has become a national, as well as an international embarrassment. If President Ramotar does not sack Dr Ramsaran for the sake of the voters of Guyana he must do it for Guyana’s international standing,” read the joint statement.

The President has been receiving calls from a wide cross section of civil society to seriously reprimand the Minister by asking for him to tender his resignation; however to date despite the numerous calls no such has been done nor has the President offered a response to the calls.

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“Abhorrence, repulsion & disgust”; activists protest for Ramsaran’s resignation

April 27, 2015 3:59 pm Category: Politics A+ / A-

By Jomo Paul

Sherlina Nageer during the protest outside Office of the President.

Sherlina Nageer during the protest outside Office of the President.

[www.inewsguyana.com] – Women’s rights activist, Sherlina Nageer was joined by a throng of other activists on Monday, April 27 as they protested outside the Office of President, calling for Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran to be sacked from his Ministerial post.

Nageer and Ramsaran were recently involved in a nasty spat outside of the Whim Magistrate’s Court during which Ramsaran launched a scathing verbal attack on Nageer whom he called a little piece sh@t and promised to have her stripped and slapped.

Nageer at the protest said that the “only acceptable option is for Mr Ramsaran is to vacate that position.”

When questioned about statements to the effect that the People’s Progressive Party has used internal mechanisms to “sanction” the Health Minister, Nageer was not moved indicating that she had no confidence in whatever sanction was meted out to the Minister.

“Sanctioning? What does that mean? Sanctioning does not have any teeth. He is not fit to be in that position,” she lamented.

APNU’s Ronald Bulkan

APNU’s Ronald Bulkan

Meanwhile, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) Executive, Ronald Bulkan also present at the protest expressed his disgust with the course of action taken by the PPP administration with respect to the issue.

“I am here to express my abhorrence, my repulsion, my disgust that the President has not seen it fit to fire this Minister for his offensive conduct…I consider him to be a degenerate based on his conduct,” said Bulkan.

According to him, the Minister should have tendered his resignation post haste and not await a call for him to do so.

He noted that while members of the PPP administration have condemned Ramsaran he finds it “shocking that none of them has called on him to resign.”

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“I am here to express my abhorrence, my repulsion, my disgust that the President has not seen it fit to fire this Minister for his offensive conduct…I consider him to be a degenerate based on his conduct,” said Bulkan

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