PPP’s Nandlall about to challenge drug bond deal in High Court

Lawrence “Larry” Singh standing in front of the bond on 29 Sussex Street, Albouystown that he is renting government.

Despite the Guyana government’s assurances that it was preparing to cut short the “undesirable” rental of a pharmaceutical bond from a city businessman, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall plans to file legal action to scrap the deal.

Nandlall said that in the first instance that the contract between the Ministry of Health and Linden Holdings, a company under the directorship of Lawrence “Larry” Singh, is illegal in the first place on several grounds. “My position is that the contract is unlawful and an unlawful contract must not stand,” Nandlall, an executive member of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) told Demerara Waves Online News.

Asked why push ahead with legal action if government has recognised it has erred and allow the administration some space and time to take legal action, he said “there is only one remedial action that is available and that is to end the unlawful act.” He questioned if the government needs a year to find somewhere else to rent or lease, the taxpayer must “endure” GYD$12.5 million per month. “The government should terminate the contract and apologise to the public. That is the redeeming thing to do,” he said.