…says evidence shows he was written to by PM

ATTORNEY General and Legal Affairs Minister, Basil Williams, is maintaining that the embattled Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC), Carvil Duncan, has no case against the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government. After being placed before a Tribunal, Duncan, who also sits on the Judicial Service Commission and the Police Service Commission, through his attorney Anil Nandlall, filed a motion in the High Court challenging the legality of the Tribunal appointed to determine whether he should be removed from the constitutional office after being charged with fraud.
Duncan is maintaining that he never received a letter from Prime Minister Moses

Nagamootoo, calling on him to explain why a tribunal should not be appointed.
On Wednesday, Williams debunked the claims being made by Duncan, saying that he has seen the evidence. “I have seen that record that the Prime Minister did serve Mr. Duncan. I have seen it, and so now that I am back, I will take custody of the case,” he told reporters during a press conference at his Carmichael Street office.
After consulting with the Prime Minister, the Attorney General said he will file a response; however, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the judicial process being employed. “We note that this is just another case, unlike the past 23 years, first it was against the Attorney General. He was not given the opportunity to be heard before an order was made against him, and now equally, the same thing has been done with the Prime Minister, an opportunity was not given to him for him to be heard before this order nisi was granted.”
Minister Williams is also sticking by Government’s decision to suspend Duncan from office pending the outcome of the Tribunal. “If you have a criminal offence and you are working with an employer, your employer doesn’t have to wait to see if you are convicted before the employer could decide whether you are good for his employment or not,” he remarked. He pointed out that Duncan is a public servant who is charged with an offence that person is interdicted and as such, there is no exception. “How could you be interdicted and the person who is supposed to be supervising you, is charged, and they don’t suffer the same consequence? What kind of country do we have?”
He added, “We are trying to create some super class in this country and see other people in Guyana as grass. How do you accept that?”
The Tribunal is expected to submit a report to President David Granger on or before October 31. Duncan has been suspended pending the outcome of the report. Duncan is currently before the court on fraud charges after it was discovered by auditors that he paid himself approximately $1M and allegedly conspired with Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Power and Light, Aeshwar Deonarine, for an unapproved transfer of approximately $27M into the latter’s personal account.