-says contract should be scrapped
Even as Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton prepares to hand over a public apology tomorrow to Parliament for misleading it on August 4th on the pharmaceutical bond contract, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says that it will not suffice.
“His apology does not address the decision to rent the bond via the sole source method. Dr. Norton’s argument that it was an emergency situation is not valid since at the time when the advance was made from the Contingencies Fund the bond was still to be built. As of today, the bond is not complete”, Goolsarran told Stabroek News yesterday.
In the wake of controversy over the deal for the rental of the Lot 29 Sussex Street, Charlestown bond, with Linden Holding Inc. to store pharmaceuticals at some $12.5M per month, President David Granger appointed a Cabinet Sub-Committee to do a review.