Former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge has been sacked as the Deputy Senior Director in the CARICOM Secretariat’s Office of Trade and Negotiations (OTN), following a complaint by the Guyana government over recent statements he made while delivering a tribute at the funeral service for the late Winston Murray.
Sources close to Greenidge told Stabroek News yesterday that he had communicated to them that “CARICOM had sacked him.” Efforts to contact the former PNC minister for comment yesterday were unsuccessful.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said on Thursday that Cabinet has registered its rejection of “a seeming abuse of protocol” by Greenidge. The statement which drew the government’s ire was when Greenidge said: “I share Winston’s belief that notwithstanding the trauma of the last few decades
