CHIEF Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Communications Network (NCN) and Director of Public Information, Imran Khan received “marching orders” from government, as their contracts were terminated.

The Guyana Chronicle was reliably informed that Khan, who served at the helm of the Department of Public Information (DPI) since 2015, received a salary of $701,767 and a duty allowance of $100,000.

The known A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) member also enjoyed government housing, and did not incur expenses for water, electricity, landline and mobile phone bills, and internet services. He also had 24-hour security at the property which he occupied.

Guyana Chronicle was also informed that Khan received a duty-free allowance to buy a vehicle for official duties.
Meanwhile, Woolford was paid $800,000 and received a duty allowance of $40,000; travelling allowance of $80,000; an entertainment allowance of $40,000; a refreshment allowance of $10,000; a security allowance of $30,000; and a housing allowance of $50,000. Woolford also received a gratuity of 22.5 per cent on his salary two times a year.
Khan and Woolford’s termination follows a series of terminations over the past few days. Just Wednesday, this newspaper reported that Regional Executive Officers (REOs) for regions One, Two, Three, Five, Six, Nine and Ten, received their termination letters from Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Emil Mc Garrell.
This was confirmed by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall.
In chronological order, the REOs were identified as Randolph Storm, Denis Jaikarran, Faye Mc Dougal, Ovid Morrison, Kim Stephen-Williams, Carl Parker and Orrin Gordon.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira, had said the current administration expects that political appointees under the previous administration will do the honourable and dignified thing and hand over state assets in their position and resign.

“We want to assure all our people… that we are not here to take away food from people’s mouth, we are not here to take away public servants jobs who have been working hard… we are not dealing with public servants,” Teixeira said in a virtual briefing on the Facebook page of the Office of the President.
She had warned that political appointees have been persuaded to resign and, if they fail to do so by next week (this week), they will receive letters of termination.