Ramson still performing duties of Commissioner of Information despite purported ‘dismissal’

Despite being “dismissed” by the government since March last year, retired judge Charles Ramson Sr says he has continued to perform the duties of Commissioner of Information and entities he has engaged with in the execution of his post have been complying with his requests for information.

These entities, Ramson told Sunday Stabroek on Wednesday from his East Street residence from where he works, includes the Magistrates’ Courts.

Last December, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo had told the National Assembly’s Committee of Supply that the Office of the Commissioner of Information has been vacant since March 2018, when Ramson was sacked. Nagamootoo told the committee that Ramson was dismissed for rendering his office dysfunctional since he has been unable to submit an account of what he has done since assuming the post in 2013.