Accounts Clerk challenges Local Government Ministry

Jan 06, 2013 News

…hires lawyer to fight termination

Although the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has issued a letter of termination to Troy Isaacs, an Accounts Clerk attached to the Georgetown Municipality’s Treasurer’s Department, a letter from his lawyer is insisting that such an action is not possible.
The letter of termination dated December 28, 2012 has implicated Isaacs in mismanagement allegations at City Hall which saw the termination of several top City Hall officials including the Acting Town Clerk, Yonette Pluck-Cort; City Treasurer, Andrew Meredith; City Engineer, Gregory Erskine and Director of Solid Waste Management, Hubert Urlin.
The correspondence, which was brought to the attention of this publication, states that the action followed an investigation requested by the Local Government Minister and authorised by the Auditory General.
The investigation was conducted by staff of the Audit Office of Guyana in relation to specific allegations of mismanagement of the city entity and embodied in the Burrowes Implementation Committee Report of June 4, 2012.
The Report was prepared by economist Ramon Gaskin who was able to detect several serious breaches of the financial and other related regulations and acts of irregularities as well as instances of negligence and incompetence.
Moreover, the correspondence went on to state that “the evidence provided in the Report has revealed inter alia, several acts of transgressions committed by you during the course of execution of your normal duties as Accounts Clerk…”
Isaacs’s transgressions, according to the correspondence, entailed the encashment of cheques using the Council’s revenue. Investigations, the Local Government correspondence added, revealed that “you would collect workers’ weekly pay cheques from them and encash same at the Council’s cashiers for a commission/fee. This happened when the cashiers had insufficient cash or were closed.”
Further, it was revealed that a total of 475 cheques totalling $8 million for the period January to December 2011 were deposited into Isaacs’s account.
But the man’s lawyer, Mortimer Coddett, in a legal response to the Ministry stated that “I wish to bring your attention to the common phrase which is popular in Guyana ‘If you ain’t hire, you can’t fire’.”
Coddett went on to outline that since the Ministry was not responsible for the hiring of Isaacs it can in no way seek to terminate his employment. He also went on to lash out at the encashment of cheques statement stressing that “this statement is somewhat vague because it is open to several interpretations some of which infer fraudulent behaviour which has not been established.”
Against this background, Coddett informed that his client still considers himself employed by the municipality and is therefore expecting to collect his salary for the month of January 2013.

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