Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Act­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Prakash Ra­mad­har says he is un­aware of a ca­bal with­in the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship which is al­leged to be be­hind the down­siz­ing of Works Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er's min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lio. Ra­mad­har, new­ly-elect­ed Con­gress of the Peo­ple po­lit­i­cal leader, made the com­ment yes­ter­day, while ad­dress­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at the par­ty's Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre, Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road, Ch­agua­nas. "I am not aware of any ca­bal against Mr Warn­er and I re­al­ly hope that is not so," he said.

"As you know this is a very small coun­try...al­le­ga­tions can be made with­out mer­it." Pressed fur­ther on the is­sue, Ra­mad­har said: "I don't know and I don't re­al­ly want to ven­ture in­to mat­ters of which I have no knowl­edge." Ra­mad­har, in his ca­pac­i­ty as act­ing AG, briefly ad­dressed the is­sue of the Dan­ger­ous Dogs Act. He said the leg­is­la­tion was com­ing to Par­lia­ment soon. He ac­knowl­edged the most re­cent dog at­tack in which con­struc­tion work­er Alex­is Tim­o­thy, 39, a fa­ther of one, was bit­ten by two pit bulls near his Ram­jass Trace, San Juan, home.

Ra­mad­har said he was grate­ful that the at­tack was not fa­tal, as was the case with se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer Denise Rack­al, 46, who was mauled to death in Ch­agua­nas in May. The min­is­ter said con­trol­ling these in­ci­dents went be­yond leg­is­la­tion, since the onus was on dog own­ers to se­cure their an­i­mals. "You do not need a law to do that," he said. He said dog own­ers should al­so be aware that any­one at­tacked by their an­i­mals could file civ­il ac­tion against the own­er.