One former Senator is calling for an inquiry into the previous administration's fiscal management, in light of concerns raised in the Auditor General's report. Former Independent Senator Ramesh Deosaran says the PNM Government's actions could very well be tantamount to white-collar crime, and he believes the Central Bank also has questions to answer.
00:00Former Independent Senator Ramesh Diyosaran is calling for action to be taken in light of the issues highlighted in the Auditor General's report.
00:30Diyosaran notes with further concern that the country's primary financial regulator is right in the middle of a proverbial mess.
01:00The central bank is behaving almost unconstitutional, and it raises the question of resignation, it raises the question of kicking matters to court judicial review, but a central bank governor should not behave so.
01:17There are different levels you can deal with a fairly and freely elected government, informally, formally, private, but that resistance in the public mind, especially with the amount of missing money on a counted form, telling the public it's a computer glitch, that raises another issue.
01:37Who is in charge of the computers? Did you check it before?
01:40The former senator suggests that the president could play a role in averting some of these dilemmas moving forward.
01:48How, Professor, do we divorce the politics and the politician from independent organizations?
01:58That's a front-line question.
02:01My general suggestion is that the prime minister, she's supposed whoever is prime minister, to meet the president frequently.
02:14I think she should have a meeting with the president of the republic, outline the challenges she faced constitutionally, especially,
02:23and see what role the president can play in this disturbing scenario.
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