Melis­sa Doughty

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al coun­cil is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, in light of the "dis­re­spect­ful state­ments" he made against MP Ter­rence Deyals­ingh in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day night.Dur­ing the de­bate, Ram­lo­gan "at­tacked" the St Joseph MP about a woman whom he de­scribed as the MP's ex-girl­friend "Kris­tel."

At the par­ty's post-gen­er­al coun­cil press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, out­go­ing par­ty chair­man Franklin Khan said they de­cid­ed unan­i­mous­ly that Ram­lo­gan should re­sign af­ter his vul­gar and un­couth out­burst in Par­lia­ment dur­ing the Low­er House's de­bate on the Dan­ger­ous Dog (Amend­ment) Bill 2014.Khan said the par­ty hoped that this would be the last time Ram­lo­gan crossed the line.

The coun­cil, he said, has al­so ap­point­ed its own con­sti­tu­tion­al re­view team. The par­ty will seek, he said, to re­view the Gov­ern­ment's draft ti­tled Re­port on the T&T Con­sti­tu­tion Re­form Com­mis­sion and to have its new­ly-formed com­mis­sion re­view the na­tion­al Con­sti­tu­tion and make rec­om­men­da­tions should it get in­to pow­er.Khan said the par­ty does not sup­port pro­por­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion nor does it be­lieve that a new con­sti­tu­tion was need­ed.

The par­ty's com­mis­sion com­pris­es Bar­ry Sinanan (for­mer speak­er), Brid­gette Anisette-George (for­mer AG), John Je­re­mie (an­oth­er for­mer AG), Dr Ter­ence Far­rell (for­mer deputy gov­er­nor of the cen­tral bank), Dr Anselm Lon­don (for­mer fi­nance sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly) and Mrs Glen­da More­an-Phillip (for­mer AG). Three more are ex­pect­ed to be added to the com­mis­sion.