Deonarine challenging Patterson’s authority to send him on leave

Former Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Administration) of the Guyana Power & Light (GPL), Aeshwar Deonarine, has filed a motion in the High Court in which he contends that Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, had no authority to send him on administrative leave.

On July 22 last year, Patterson sent Deonarine on leave after it was discovered that he had paid himself some $27 million of the power company’s money.

An investigation was subsequently launched by the police, after it was discovered that