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Feb 16, 2013 News
…owed to him for over 20 years
Major General (Ret’d) Norman McLean is suing the government for $7.9M in gratuity which he is owed for the past 22 years.
In documents filed in the High Court, McLean is claiming that the government is refusing to pay him the gratuity which became payable since January 1991.
McLean was employed by the government continuously without a break in service for over 36 years from June 1954 to December 1990.
He commenced work in the Treasury Department in June 1954 until he was appointed a Cadet Officer in the British Guiana Police Force in 1958. He stayed in the Force until 1974 when he joined the Guyana National Service and served there until July 1979.
Just after, he entered the Guyana Defence Force as Brigadier and was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1985 and continued to serve as Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force until his retirement at the end of December 1990.
It is his combined gratuity that McLean is now suing the government for.
He said that he has made several demands for payment by writing all Presidents of Guyana commencing with Mr. Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Mrs. Janet Jagan, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo and now Mr. Donald Ramotar, “all without success or without any tangible responses.”
McLean also wrote to Dr. Roger Luncheon, in his capacity as Chairman of the Defence Board outlining his grievances at the non-payment of his gratuity.
In court documents, McLean claims that he has not received any payment of gratuity to date and neither has he been informed of any reason why he has not been paid.
McLean is suing under grounds that he is legally entitled to his gratuity pursuant to Article 214 of the Constitution and that withholding payment amounts to deprivation of property and a contravention of his fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 142 of the Constitution.
McLean is now 78-years-old. He attained the age of retirement, 55, in 1990. At the time of his retirement, he received a monthly salary of $14,184. He also received personal allowances of $3,600 per annum and $2,400 in ration allowances.
As such, he would have received a total of $176,210 in salary per annum at the time of his retirement.
McLean said that his 36 years of service to the government is beyond the 33 and one-third pensionable years that is the maximum number of pensionable years to qualify for payment of pension and gratuity.
Lawyers representing McLean are Rex McKay, S.C., Edward Luckhoo, S.C., and Neil Boston.
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