Former President Donald Ramotar has rejected perceptions that he was a figurehead office-holder with his predecessor Bharrat Jagdeo running the country from behind the scenes.
“It is not true, not true. Remember he is a member of the executive but he didn’t play the prominent role that people said he played. He only came into the picture if I asked him to and that was not often,” Ramotar told Stabroek News in an interview on Sunday when asked about perceptions of him