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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Ramesh, Jack join forces again

...to fight against PP cor­rup­tion

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A plat­form shared by for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) chair­man and min­is­ter Jack Warn­er and for­mer UNC at­tor­ney gen­er­al Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj yes­ter­day prompt­ed hopes that an­oth­er Ram­Jack fac­tion was in the fu­ture.The two, who formed a brief al­liance back in 2009 with the Car­a­van for Change, spoke again about join­ing forces for so­cial change in the face of pub­lic dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment.

This al­liance, called the Plat­form for Change, will see the two speak­ing at meet­ings through­out the coun­try for so­cial change.Ma­haraj de­scribed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as a "weak leader" who let her min­is­ters do what they want­ed re­gard­less of the con­se­quences. He crit­i­cised her com­plic­it role in the un­fold­ing "pris­ongate" is­sue and said she was wrong to al­low At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan to in­ves­ti­gate his own of­fice.

Ma­haraj re­called be­ing screened to con­test the Tabaquite seat in the build up to the 2010 elec­tions and said he was de­nied be­cause of a strong and vo­cal stand against in­ter­nal cor­rup­tion. Warn­er was al­ready speak­ing and paused to ask Ma­haraj to tell the crowd what Per­sad-Bisses­sar asked him dur­ing the screen­ing process. Ma­haraj said Per­sad-Bisses­sar asked him if there were al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion against the Prime Min­is­ter and the Gov­ern­ment, would he stay qui­et or be vo­cal.

"I said madam, I would be more vo­cal than I was years ago," Ma­haraj said."The Prime Min­is­ter is the weak­est Prime Min­is­ter we have ever had, even worse than Cham­bers," he said.He called on the pub­lic to be more in­volved in what was hap­pen­ing in the coun­try, say­ing that the waste of tax­pay­ers mon­ey di­rect­ly af­fect­ed the coun­try. Warn­er, speak­ing af­ter Ma­haraj, said a "gang of six" ben­e­fit­ted from the pris­ongate scan­dal.

He called on the Con­gress of the Peo­ple to come for­ward and speak out against what is hap­pen­ing in the Gov­ern­ment as they spoke out against him.Warn­er said he was go­ing to write to the Com­mon­wealth Sec­re­tari­at re­gard­ing Ram­lo­gan's ex­cess­es and will al­so write to all the At­tor­neys Gen­er­al with­in the Com­mon­wealth to in­form them of Ram­lo­gan's be­hav­iour.Ma­haraj said he was uni­fy­ing with oth­er groups to fight for so­cial jus­tice."It is not a po­lit­i­cal al­liance."


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