A former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) typist clerk and customs broker’s secretary was yesterday sentenced to 36 months in prison after being found guilty of obtaining in excess of $2M as gratuity payment from the Ministry of Finance.
Colleen Easton, of Lot 21 Ogle Front, East Coast Demerara, who will be celebrating her 60th birthday tomorrow, was momentarily left with her mouth agape when the sentence was announced by city magistrate Judy Latchman.
Slowly reclining into a seat which was provided, Easton, between sobs, leaned over to her attorney George Thomas in disbelief, asking what was going to happen and whether there was anything he could do.
“Wah gon happen? Wah yuh could do?” she cried, while wiping the tears trickling down her cheeks with her kerchief.
Thomas had earlier begged the court to consider his client’s age and the fact that she had fully cooperated
