Former GDF Credit Union manager challenges legality of imposed leave, suspension

One of the officers sent on leave to facilitate an investigation into the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Credit Union has moved to the High Court challenging the decisions to send him on administrative leave and to suspend him from the union’s Committee of Management.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday granted orders nisi in favour of Major (ag) Lesley Ramlall, directing Chief-of-Staff Commodore Gary Best and credit union Chairman Colonel Enoch Gaskin to show cause why their respective decisions should not be quashed. The conditional orders were based upon an application by Ramlall through his lawyer Roysdale Forde.

Ramlall was one of the two officers sent on administrative leave from the GDF late last month when it announced that an investigation of the credit union was ongoing. Ramlall was the