Alliance For Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday walked out of a select committee of Parliament meeting on the anti-money laundering bill in protest at President Donald Ramotar’s use of the word terrorism to describe the opposition’s vote on Thursday against two matters pertaining to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.
When the committee considering the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill met at Parliament yesterday, the opposition MPs passed a motion condemning the President for his remark. The chairperson of the committee, PPP/C MP Gail Teixeira then argued against the condemnation and Ramjattan said that it was at this point that he decamped from the proceedings with the argument that the committee