Court orders restoration of status of retired QC head

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has ordered Education Minister Shaik Baksh to restore former Queen’s College headmistress Freidel Isaacs to the status of retired principal, after finding that she was dismissed without a hearing.

The Minister’s decision to terminate Isaac’s services two days before she was due to retire and demote her from Graduate Headmistress (Senior Secondary) to Gra-duate Deputy Headmistress (Grade A) had been quashed temporarily, but the ruling last week made the order absolute.

Justice Chang called on Baksh to take the