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BREAKING: DPP discontinues private criminal charges against Ministers Lawrence, Norton

 

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence

Private criminal charges of misconduct in public office against Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence and former Minister of Public Health, George Norton have been discontinued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Hack.

The DPP’s Chambers said the allegations should have been first reported to the Guyana Police Force. “These charges concern a grave issue under the criminal law in relation to two serving Ministers. In the interest of good governance in the State of Guyana such allegations ought first to have been reported to the Guyana Police Force for an investigation to be launched and the advice of the DPP sought,” the DPP’s Chambers said.

Attorney General, Basil Williams had said at the weekend that the private criminal charges against Norton and Lawrence had not emerged from an investigation.

Then Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton addressing a news conference on the controversial pharmaceutical bond. He had publicly apologised for unintentionally providing misleading information to the House. His fate rests with the House’s Privileges Committee to which the matter has been referred.

Attorney-at-Law, Anil Nandlall declined to comment immediately on this latest development.

The DPP Chambers said she discontinued the charges under Article 187 (1) ( c) of Guyana’s Constitution. The PPP had levelled the charge of misconduct in public office on the grounds that she had instructed the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation to buy more than GY$600 million in drugs from Ansa McAl without first going through the procurement process.

In the case of Norton, he had been accused of renting a building on Sussex Street, Albouystown for GY$14 million per month for the storage of drugs and other medical supplies. However, that deal did not pass through the procurement process.

Though Nandlall had denied that the charges against Norton and Lawrence had not been a tit-for-tat, observers believed that it was in direct response to charges of misconduct in public office by the Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force against former Finance Minister, Winston Jordan and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited, Winston Brassington in connection with the sale of three large parcels of land for just over GY$900 million allegedly without regard to the valuation process.

Nandlall has since asked the DPP to review and possibly discontinue those charges.

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They came up with a BS technicality in the law to throw out legitimate charges of gross corruption by ministers of the gov't.  Shame on these bastards. The Guyanese people are watching and they will vote their displeasure with this corrupt and anti-democratic regime.

Billy Ram Balgobin
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Mars posted:

Nandlall is a former AG and the man can’t even perform a basic function like filing a charge the correct way.

He should close down his law office and start a new career

He filed these charges as a tit for tat, a ploy to bring awareness to govt corruption under the apnu, fully knowing that it was not allowed.  The proper way is to go through the police, but we know the police will bury any investigation given that they are pnc members themselves. 

FM
Dave posted:
ksazma posted:

So I guess Hack isn’t the PPP hack that she used to be accused of.

She gets Hack by Crongress Place 

She is afraid as a coolie, she might just be sent on an extended leave of absence. Her position will then be filled by an incompetent PNC card carrying thug. Just like we have seen before.

FM
Zed posted:

For my info, when Ram filed a private charge against Jagdeonregarding alleged racist statements, did he follow the same procedure? 

Good point , PPP should seek an explaintion from her .

FM
Dave posted:
Zed posted:

For my info, when Ram filed a private charge against Jagdeonregarding alleged racist statements, did he follow the same procedure? 

Good point , PPP should seek an explaintion from her .

Well the PPP fired back at the DPP,

read um here

https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/pp...es-against-ministers

Django
Django posted:
Dave posted:
Zed posted:

For my info, when Ram filed a private charge against Jagdeonregarding alleged racist statements, did he follow the same procedure? 

Good point , PPP should seek an explaintion from her .

Well the PPP fired back at the DPP,

read um here

https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/pp...es-against-ministers

And what’s your thought .  I see you playing hide and seek with your views . 

FM
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Dave posted:
Zed posted:

For my info, when Ram filed a private charge against Jagdeonregarding alleged racist statements, did he follow the same procedure? 

Good point , PPP should seek an explaintion from her .

Well the PPP fired back at the DPP,

read um here

https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/pp...es-against-ministers

And what’s your thought .  I see you playing hide and seek with your views

Nah bhai,i man tekking in the comedy playing in the homeland.

Them bhais from freedom house trying to prove the charges against their colleagues are wrong.Their retaliation backfiring.

Django
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Django posted:
Mitwah posted:

Jagdeo acting as if he is the president and in charge. Dem acting out of desperation.

You got that right,they are acting foolishly.

You think ministers in government can blatantly misappropriate assets of the state and no one must say or do anything about it? This is not desperation.  This is theft of state assets in the most brazen form. 

Billy Ram Balgobin

Billy, that is how Dictatorship is created and Slaves are bowing to them. Sometimes I dio not blame the Dictators. People like the FILTH HEADS on GNI loves being Enslave and taken advantage of.

Nehru
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Django posted:
Mitwah posted:

Jagdeo acting as if he is the president and in charge. Dem acting out of desperation.

You got that right,they are acting foolishly.

You think ministers in government can blatantly misappropriate assets of the state and no one must say or do anything about it? This is not desperation.  This is theft of state assets in the most brazen form. 

So you think that such blatant misappropriation should be prosecuted?

A
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Django posted:
Mitwah posted:

Jagdeo acting as if he is the president and in charge. Dem acting out of desperation.

You got that right,they are acting foolishly.

You think ministers in government can blatantly misappropriate assets of the state and no one must say or do anything about it? This is not desperation.  This is theft of state assets in the most brazen form. 

Charge all the politicians who thief,let the courts decide.

Firstly approach the misappropriations by politicians according to laws of the country.

Until the guilty faces the music the thieving will never cease.

Django
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Nehru posted:

Well, many are saying she is as CORRUPT as the PNC.

Yes that was said here four years ago but yall didn't care she was PPP people at the time, suddenly she's corrupt ...hahahahaaaaaaaaa

cain
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cain posted:
Nehru posted:

Well, many are saying she is as CORRUPT as the PNC.

Yes that was said here four years ago but yall didn't care she was PPP people at the time, suddenly she's corrupt ...hahahahaaaaaaaaa

She has house lot at Pravdoville, conflict of interest.

K

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