City Engineer Colvern Venture has approached the High Court for protection from the Mayor and Councillors who have publicly declared their intention to dismiss him from his post despite not actually having the power to do so.
In a fixed date application seen by Sunday Stabroek, Venture, though his lawyer, Ronald Burch-Smith, has asked the court to grant an order of prohibition preventing the acting Town Clerk, Mayor or Council from exercising any disciplinary functions or imposing any disciplinary sanction against him or from terminating his employment without the approval or permission of the Local Government Commission or Order of Court.
Venture, who was suspended without pay from his post by the Council on January 25th, is also asking that the suspension by quashed.
