At­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), just weeks af­ter Cab­i­net re­voked the ap­point­ment of Dr Randy Ra­mad­har Singh, who served as lead di­rec­tor for less than a month.

Ramdeen re­ceived his of­fi­cial let­ter of ap­point­ment from En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, along with the rest of the board.

The deputy chair­man is Ram­nar­ine Be­dassie. The oth­er di­rec­tors are Naz­im Sar­jad, Dr Ram­per­sad Moti­lal, Dr Ahamad Khan, Steve See­ta­hal, Ro­hi­ni Ra­mai Pe­ters, Prof David Alexan­der, and Joseph Toney.