Former Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has blamed the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) for the delay in producing tougher cigarette packaging rules here since the body has failed to create model legislation.
“We have developed a local legislation for Guyana but Guyana is a part of CROSQ and we did not want to proceed with a Guyana standard when we are a part of CROSQ and CROSQ haven’t done their own legislation… They are the ones who held it back,”