AG: Bail bill same PP bill

Al-Rawi said he had been told so by the Chef Parliamentary Counsel. “Thank God for written records,” he said, in his wind-up to the bill he had piloted earlier.

He related that a Cabinet policy document from March 2013 (under the PP) had dealt with prisons officers collecting bail money, as he hit back at Opposition MP for Oropouche East Dr Roodal Moonilal’s complaint that the process was cumbersome, that prisons officers were to be turned into cashiers and that prison was not the right place to store any such accrued sums of money.

The committee stage of the bill will be taken on Friday when the House will also debate an Opposition motion on