The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is call­ing for a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the con­duct of Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath dur­ing pro­ceed­ings of the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee on Thurs­day evening.

In a state­ment is­sued on June 12, the Op­po­si­tion con­demned what it de­scribed as Mr Padarath’s con­duct fol­low­ing com­plaints from Gov­ern­ment mem­bers that their mi­cro­phones had been mut­ed dur­ing a pe­ri­od of cross-talk in the Cham­ber.

Ac­cord­ing to the PNM, Gov­ern­ment mem­bers raised con­cerns about their mi­cro­phones and made al­le­ga­tions that Par­lia­men­tary staff were bi­ased against the Gov­ern­ment.