Businessman Omprakash ‘Buddy’ Shivraj and some of his employees are being accused of assaulting and threatening members of a National Insurance Scheme (NIS) inspection team last Friday, when they visited his New Providence, East Bank Demerara construction site and seized wage records and time sheets.
However, Shivraj late yesterday afternoon denied the allegations. “I wasn’t even there. It’s all lies,” he told Stabroek News in response to a statement issued by NIS.
NIS said it plans to institute the appropriate actions in accordance with law. The statement said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms this brazen act of