GPSU apparently going ahead with elections despite injunction

One day after being served with an injunction delaying their elections, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has advised its members that elections will be held as planned today.

The High Court has granted an interim injunction postponing the GPSU elections by nearly two weeks unless the executive council can produce the treasurer’s report for the past 12 years and the Auditor General’s report that was reportedly presented to it.

The application for the injunction, which was filed by attorney Nigel Hughes on behalf of Chairman of the union’s Guyana Geology and Mines Commission branch Gregory Gaspar, was heard on Wednesday and granted on Thursday by Justice Nareshwar Harnanan.

Though the injunction was served to all members of the executive council on Friday, an advertisement in Saturday’s Stabroek News