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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Fired Glenn absent from House

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For­mer Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment min­is­ter Dr Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh was ab­sent from Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day dur­ing the first sit­ting since his dis­missal on Tues­day.Tech­ni­cal ad­vis­er to the for­mer min­is­ter Bar­ring­ton "Skip­py" Thomas said yes­ter­day Ra­mad­hars­ingh was rest­ing. Ra­mad­hars­ingh was rel­e­gat­ed to the Gov­ern­ment's back bench in the House yes­ter­day as he no longer held Cab­i­net port­fo­lio.

When he re­turns to the cham­ber he will be seat­ed next to an­oth­er sacked min­is­ter Col­in Par­tap and be­hind for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning.Thomas said Ra­mad­hars­ingh will be hit­ting the road in his Ca­roni Cen­tral con­stituen­cy on Mon­day.Ques­tioned by re­porters as he made his way to the min­istry on In­de­pen­dence Square yes­ter­day,Thomas said he was re­turn­ing to his of­fice ex­pect­ing to be asked to leave.An ear­li­er call for protest against Ra­mad­hars­ingh's dis­missal was called off, he said.

"That call was based on an emo­tion­al re­sponse," he added."Af­ter in­tro­spec­tion we agree it is one par­ty and one leader and we have asked the con­stituen­cy not to go to the Par­lia­ment to­day. "He said the ini­tial protest call was re­scind­ed. Thomas said UNC sup­port­ers were en­cour­aged to go to Par­lia­ment to show sup­port for the Prime Min­is­ter, who had the right to de­ter­mine who would sit in her cab­i­net.


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