Outrage rises over Ramsaran abuse

Sherlina Nageer (second from left) at the protest yesterday outside the Ministry of Health over remarks made against her on Monday by Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran.

Scores of persons yesterday expressed their outrage at Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran’s abuse of activist Sherlina Nageer and called for his resignation even as the PPP/C’s prime ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper described his remarks as “unacceptable and an affront to women”.

With just weeks to go before the general elections, Harper’s statement was indicative of the damage done to the party’s campaign by Ramsaran’s abuse and placed both the PPP/C – of which he is a senior member – and