UPDATE | Former Petrojam human resource manager received $9.2 million payout

Livern Barrett, Parliamentary Reporter

Yolande Ramharrack, the former human resource manager hired by Petrojam without the required academic qualification, received a gross separation payment $9.2 million even though there were "unresolved issues" related to her employment at the state-owned oil refinery.

Further, the scandal-scarred entity made a gross separation payment of $7.2 million to its former general manager, Floyd Grindley.

After deductions, Ramharrack walked away with $4.1 million while Grindley got $3.8 million.

The figures were made public today in responses provided to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament by Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister Sancia Bennett Templer and executives at Petrojam.

Bennett Templer initially told the PAC that the net payout to Grindley was $5.2 million

However, acting General Manager at Petrojam Winston Watson acknowledged that he had misled her about the actual figure.

The payout to Ramharrack was communicated to members of the PAC in the absence of the media after Bennett Templer insisted she could not discuss it publicly based on legal advice from the Attorney General.

However, after a brief discussion in a private room, PAC chairman Mark Golding made the figure public.

He blasted the payment to Ramharrack as "highly irregular."

"She has received this payment without issues being resolved," said Golding, making reference to the disciplinary process that was in progress at the time.

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