Fired ADB worker running out of $$

HIGH Court Judge Amrika Tiwari-Reddy yesterday expressed concern that fired Agricultural Development Bank (ADB)  accountant Feona Lue Ping Wa might be out of money and work as a result of her dismissal earlier this year.

As a result, the judge fixed hearing of a High Court injunction Ping Wa filed against the ADB for December 11, and ordered the bank to file affidavits in the case within the next 14 days. Ping Wa, ADB’s former corporate manager (finance/information technology), has sued the bank for suspending her without pay in July this year. Ping Wa is contending in a writ filed against the ADB in the Sub-Registry, San Fernando, that she was suspended because she refused to carry out an instruction pursuant to a decision of the ADB’s Board, to invest $4.2 million in the CLICO Group advance protection contract. Ping Wa has also filed an injunction seeking to have the bank restrained from acting on its decision to terminate her as corporate manager — finance and information technology.