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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Kamla: New Integrity Commission chairman is House Speaker's neighbour

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519 days ago
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FILE - Newly sworn in Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Haydn Gittens, receives his Instrument of Appointment from President Christine Kangaloo.

FILE - Newly sworn in Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Haydn Gittens, receives his Instrument of Appointment from President Christine Kangaloo.

Image courtesy Ministry of Information]

 

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is crit­i­cis­ing Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo for ap­point­ing as In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion Chair­man some­one who is a neigh­bour and friend of Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Bridgid An­nisette-George and her hus­band New­man George.

In a me­dia state­ment, Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar called on Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo to ex­plain her ra­tio­nale for ap­point­ing Haydn Git­tens to the post.

"Most con­cern­ing is that at no time did Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo, or Mr Git­tens him­self, see the need to show per­son­al in­tegri­ty and dis­close the close ties of Mr Git­tens to high-rank­ing in­di­vid­u­als in the PNM hi­er­ar­chy,” the Op­po­si­tion Leader stat­ed.

“Mr Git­tens must al­so dis­close if any mem­ber of his fam­i­ly was pre­vi­ous­ly ap­point­ed to a state board by the Row­ley Gov­ern­ment. It ap­pears that this ap­point­ment shows def­i­nite signs of crony­ism, nepo­tism, and bias to­ward the sit­ting Gov­ern­ment," she said.

Haydn Git­tens was ap­point­ed as Chair­man of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion fol­low­ing the ex­piry of Pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan’s term in of­fice on Jan­u­ary 11, 2024.


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