Ani­ka Gumbs-San­di­ford

Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day is next in line to be de­throned.

This was the warn­ing de­liv­ered by deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the UNC Jack Warn­er, yes­ter­day, mo­ments af­ter Dr Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan was not re­turned as an al­der­man in Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion.

It means that the for­mer may­or will not re­tain his post. Show­ing a pho­to of Natasha Navas, 30, Warn­er said she would be sworn in as the cen­tral bor­ough's new may­or on Thurs­day. Warn­er said: "The next hur­dle I am go­ing af­ter is Pan­day. Change is go­ing to come in the UNC, whether it is above or be­low. To­day, it has come from be­low. "It is the be­gin­ning and it is go­ing to de­vel­op for all those that re­sist change." Navas, from Fe­lic­i­ty, is an em­ploy­ee of First Cit­i­zens.

Ram­bachan served as may­or at Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion for six years, and his ouster was a move that shocked many and brought sev­er­al of his em­ploy­ees to tears.

Deny­ing that he paid a $100,000 bribe to the coun­cil­lors to en­sure that they vot­ed against Ram­bachan, Warn­er said: "They vot­ed by se­cret bal­lot. I do not know who vot­ed for who. I nev­er paid mon­ey. That is fool­ish­ness." Ad­mit­ting that it was no se­cret that he was work­ing to en­sure that Ram­bachan was re­moved from of­fice, Warn­er said he met with deputy may­or Or­lan­do Nages­sar, two weeks ago, and in­formed him of his plans.

"I told Nages­sar to go to Pan­day and tell him what I was do­ing. I was not hid­ing any­thing, be­cause if he did not agree they will suf­fer in the end." Nages­sar will al­so be re­placed as deputy may­or by Nals­ingh Ram­bar­ran. Warn­er said first on the agen­da for Navas would be to meet the ven­dors of Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket. "She is a peo­ple's may­or; that is why she will be in of­fice and oth­ers will be out," Warn­er quipped.

Yes­ter­day, Pan­day said many had tried to de­throne him, but had end­ed in the po­lit­i­cal ceme­tery.