The Region Two administration did not engage the police on the alleged theft of a quantity of fuel by two workers, after they requested dismissal rather than face criminal charges.
This is according to Region Two chairman Parmanand Persaud, who told this newspaper yesterday that the incident was reported to the Public Service Commis-sion (PSC) and the two persons, a driver employed there for more than 20 years and a recently-appointed overseer, were sent on leave by the region pending an investigation by the PSC. He said that the regional administration recommended that the two workers be dismissed.
The men were allegedly caught discharging the fuel at the yard of a rice farmer, who is allegedly related to one of them, on March 7. The fuel was intended to be dropped off at Lima, to be used for works on projects undertaken by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) there. However, the men had stopped at the
