Minister of State for the Public Service Pia Glover-Rolle.
By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
A “large” number of letters of promotion are expected to be issued in the coming week for Bahamas Department of Correctional Services workers as well as Department of Immigration officers, according to a government minister.
Service-wide promotions that were “held back” since 2017 will be issued shortly, The Tribune was told.
Pia Glover-Rolle, state minister for public service, made the revelation when speaking with this newspaper yesterday.
“A large amount of letters are expected to go out in the coming week for the Bahamas Department of Corrections (and) Immigration,” she said, responding to questions from The Tribune.
“This will be the first batch with more to be released thereafter. Additionally, letters for service-wide promotions that were held back from 2017 will be coming out shortly,” she said.
Earlier this month, Mrs Glover-Rolle said that the government was still reviewing all public sector promotion and hiring exercises carried out in the lead up to the general election.
While communicating with this newspaper, Mrs Glover-Rolle added that officials continue to conduct reviews of hirings, reclassifications and promotions conducted, in particular, within the eight weeks prior to election.
“It is to ensure that these exercises were handled on merit and within policy as we’ve been receiving much information that some may not fall into those circumstances,” she said yesterday. “Where matters were inappropriately handled, or possibly unjustifiably advanced, we will seek to correct.
“I’ve had meetings with six trade unions to date and many complaints were levied in regard to some handlings of matters in the lead up to the general election and the lack of cooperation and communication in ameliorating other longstanding matters.”
Former Public Service Minister Brensil Rolle previously defended public sector promotions granted in the weeks before the general election, insisting the previous government was simply acting on years’ old recommendations that were in some cases left behind by the Christie administration.
Comments
joeblow 2 years, 6 months ago
... I guess a $10 billion+ deficit and impending downgrade is not enough reason for government to be fiscally responsible. Here comes more borrowing for civil servants!
bahamianson 2 years, 6 months ago
Peomotions with what money. Every governmental employee needs to get a 20% pay cut. We have no money. Why do we.keep spending ourselves into oblivion.? This is ridiculous.
TigerB 2 years, 6 months ago
This will now look like a PLP promotion as to the FNM. so Brensil Rolle was right, they couldn't find anything wrong but held it back anyway. Idiots! in the new day.
sheeprunner12 2 years, 6 months ago
When will we see civil service reform? Most of the civil service are either underpaid untrained line staff, disgruntled overworked middle mgmt, or overpaid top staff who have overstayed their time without succession planning. A real mess, if one must say.
licks2 2 years, 6 months ago
You forget politicians and political parties who put "they dumb" friends, families and lovers in dretorate positions and the other party will not remove they "friend's friend" no matter how that numb skull "mess the works up". . .smart persons rearly ever gets to the top positions!! Executive "dollhouse". . .I mean managements is normally done through, who sexing whom, which island you are from, who ya people them is, if ya high-up in a political party and lastly, ya social circles!! This configuration een so bad iffin they send somebody with sense!! But, usually, they send their dumb "breen-dead" person who can't beat their way outta a wet paper bag!!
It also seem that once they "get in" they never come out. . .until they dead!! As long as they een dead yet. . .they keep coming back as "their" govement gets into power.!!
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