Former Minister of Public Service Jennifer Westford and the ministry’s past Chief Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings were yesterday arraigned on 24 charges alleging they stole more than $639 million from the Government of Guyana.
They were both granted $200,000 bail on each charge read, amounting to a total of $4.8 million to be paid to the court.
Westford, a current parliamentarian for the opposition PPP/C, and Cummings were made to stand in the prisoner’s dock yesterday when the indictable charges were read to them by Magistrate Judy Latchman. The two were
