- GUYSUCO CEO & BOARD (FIRED/RELEASED)
The government has dismissed the CEO of Guysuco Raj Singh and instructed all board members to hand in resignations.
Here are the names of board members as of August 2014: Shaik Baksh, Dunstan Barrow, Dindyal Permaul, Keith Burrowes, Badri Persaud, Geeta Singh-Knight and Raj Singh
Harmon Fires 20 from OP(FIRED/RELEASED)
- More than 20 persons who were secretly working at the Office of President under the guise of being ‘Work Processor Operator’, but were actually doing political work under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government, yesterday had their services terminated.
- Ramjattan Fires Police(FIRED/RELEASED)
Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan told Demerara Waves Online News that he instructed that Corporal Mohanram Dulai be fired and that co-accused Inspector Narine Lall’s tenure in the force be revisited by the PSC. “I have instructed that both of them be fired and I understand that the Commissioner of Police cannot fire one of them. It has to come from the Police Service Commission,” he said.
- Three top officials of Region Nine (FIRED/RELEASED)
Three top officials of Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo) were sent on leave by the new central government that was voted into office at last month's general and regional elections. They are the Regional Executive Officer (REO), Claire Singh; Assistant REO Karl Singh and Deputy REO Mohammed Arjoon.
- Collymore reportedly had his services terminated (FIRED/RELEASED)
Former ministerial advisor, Clinton Collymore is among the latest casualties as the new Government
continues its transition into office. Collymore reportedly had his services terminated after failing to turn up to work under the new Minister, Ronald Bulkan. Confirming that Collymore was sent home last week, Bulkan yesterday disclosed that the advisor had been missing from the Kingston Ministry since the May 11 elections, not turning up until last week
- President Granger said that today his administration will begin pardoning 60 convicts (FIRED from Jail/RELEASED) between the ages of 18 and 25. Then Head-of- State said that he had asked particularly for especially female convicts, “but apparently the females have not been misbehaving at the same rate as the males…It turns out that there is a small number of females too, who had actually committed minor offences.”
Nevertheless, the President said that many young men are in jail for frivolous offences.