One hundred and thirty (130) public officers are expected to be appointed soon.
Minister responsible for Public Service Reform, Gretta Roberts, made the announcement during Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s Anou Palay Programme on Sunday night.
“We have been working on that tirelessly to try to at least do something for public officers,” Roberts. ”So I am happy to inform you that during the last six months, we have worked on this and we have now processed and submitted recommendations to the Public Service Commission for approval of different categories of public officers.”
She said the recommendations include 60 public officers in the teaching service, among them, principals, qualified teachers and graduate teachers along with 30 junior clerks and 40 other officers from general positions within the service.
“All these have been submitted so these people can expect appointments,” Roberts stated adding that this is a promise kept, “because we had promised them we would do something.”
Over the years General Secretary of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU), Thomas Letang, has raised concerns over the non-appointment of a number of public officers in Dominica. Some public officers, Letang complained, have been in the service as long as 10 years and have not been appointed.
“People have been working in the service for a number of years and in vacant positions,” Letang said and called for what he referred to as a worrying situation for the PSU, to be addressed.
These concerns, and others, have led to a number of protest actions by public officers.
Gretta Darling, when is the upgrade of positions recommended from the HR audit going to be implemented?
And by the way, another minister not wearing a mask but they want people to wear it!
You know that this will cause more discontent than not appointing anyone. I wouldn’t bet on it but I’m sure that most if not all those they plan to appoint are the new entrants whom the pal reps sent and not those who worked for years. Political appointments written all over this if you ask me.
What an obnoxious woman. One wonders where Skerrit gets them from…
The government is the largest employer in the country. Government employees are paid using our tax revenue. Taxes come from the employees. The whole of Dominica is a pyramid scheme!
Of course my friend, with P.M. sitting at the apex and minnows at the bottom carrying all that load. The law of gravity also make …. flow down you know.
How long is soon. I NEED MY APPOINTMENT
Well Teach, I feel your pain. I don’t know if you just started or you are there between 10 and 20 years in the service.
But I will try to talk to the PM to see what he can do for you.
Tomorrow is soon, the trouble is it’s always tomorrow.
Miss Roberts? Did the ministry submit these recommendations on its own? If I were the public officers recommended, I would expect nothing until the Public Service Commission ACTUALLY approves those recommendations. Experience has shown that the PSC sometimes appoint other persons than those recommended.
“We have been working on that TIRELESSLY to try to at LEAST do something for public officers”.
So for six months now the government has been tirelessly working on the appointment of public officers and is still unable to say when it will take effect.🤗🤗
Grets, when will you all stop taking folks for granted and insulting their intelligence?? You know that it is simply an exercise in grandstanding and untruth.
No one will be appointed.
And while you are at it, will their appointments be “retroactive”? But after all, you have really treated them WELL because they continued to work for ten years without appointment: looks like they “liked it so”, or should not have been there in the first place.
Which individual, skilled and aware of his/her worth, will work for ten years without appointment??
HOTEP!
“We have been working on that tirelessly to try to at least do something for public officers.” You hear this public servants…you all are getting the least. Just imagine, what all u would have gotten if Thomas Letang didnt continue to beg for you all. Expect to get 0, 0 and 0.005 % for the next triennium, while Skerrit gets $32,000 rent money, duty free for his family etc…etc. Westay la toujours!!!
Will this also apply to Janet Charles our High Commissioner in London, who oddly is still listed as “acting” after she took over the position held by Francine Baron, when the latter took up a cabinet post as Minister of Foreign affairs under
Roosevelt Skerrit.
Imagine someone defaced a public building with graffiti. That person then apply a fresh coat of paint to the building then want to be praised.
This situation of non-appointments in the public service, some for over ten (10) years, should have never be allowed to happen in the first instance.
All civil servants, by law, who have worked for over six months or one year, in the same position, should be appointed. This is no special favor. It’s a right!
One other observation. The public service in Dominica is very dysfunctional. Why? Every critical position is filled by persons who are uniquely unfit. Their qualification is mostly their political allegiance to Skerrit and his severely corrupt, grossly inept political party.
Dominica is a country that is steadily south bound heading to the abyss.
Yes the public service is corrupt…I served under UWP…and it was the same thing…square pegs in round holes. Labour no different. Is not today the public service is like that. The norm is to sing for your supper and kiss a$$. Politics over saturate the conscience.
I cannot believe people like Gretta Roberts are helping Skerrit put the final nail in Dominica’s cuffin. See a young lady I grew up admiring boy. But you know Philippians 3:19 describes such people, their future and God and their end, every single one in the Skerrit cabal
“Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things” Philippians 3:19