Akash Sama­roo

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has pledged to take “ap­pro­pri­ate ac­tion, if nec­es­sary” against Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates, while Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee which un­cov­ered her al­leged mis­con­duct is set to meet to­day to de­cide on her fu­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion.

The de­vel­op­ment comes as a high-pro­file in­quiry by the Pub­lic Ac­counts and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Com­mit­tee (PAAC) in­to the State’s han­dling of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals was abrupt­ly ad­journed dur­ing an in-cam­era ses­sion on Mon­day, af­ter what sources de­scribed as a po­ten­tial con­flict of in­ter­est.