Yvonne Ba­boolal

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said yes­ter­day that she did not know that the ap­point­ment of Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion Chair­man Nizam Mo­hammed was not re­voked. The PM spoke dur­ing the tea break in Par­lia­ment, short­ly af­ter Mo­hammed told the me­dia af­ter his meet­ing with Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards that he was stay­ing. Mo­hammed said his ap­point­ment was not re­voked and that he has not re­signed. He said there are to be more talks on the mat­ter.

Asked for a re­sponse, Per­sad-Bisses­sar replied: "I don't know...He went to the Pres­i­dent and I have not have had any dis­cus­sions with the Pres­i­dent on the meet­ing. "I would pre­fer to have some of­fi­cial word from His Ex­cel­len­cy...It would not be ap­pro­pri­ate to com­ment at this time," she said. Last Mon­day, the PM strong­ly con­demned Mo­hammed's re­marks at a re­cent Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee meet­ing in Par­lia­ment that there are not enough In­di­ans in the up­per ech­e­lons of the Po­lice Ser­vice. (YB)