Promotions within the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) could become the next case engaging the High Court as several officers are objecting to being removed from a preferment list due to alleged “disciplinary infractions” for which they were punished years earlier.
About half of the 30 men and women removed from the list have instruct-ed their attorney, Eusi Anderson, to write to acting Fire Chief Kalamu-deen Edoo directing that he issue to the Minister of Home Affairs the list of all officers who have passed the necessary examinations and are therefore eligible for promotions or face a “constitutional action for discrimination”. The Fire Chief has been given until Monday August 23 to correct the issue.
Edoo, however, says that no promotion list currently exists.