Members of the Cabinet meeting. Photos: Yontalay Bowe/OPM Media Services
THE Cabinet Office has announced the formation of various Cabinet committees to facilitate the work of the government, including groups to focus on crime and public sector reform.
“Recognising that government works best when each ministry plays its role and that the many challenges facing the Bahamas are multi-faceted, the Cabinet is intent on fostering and/or deepening – inter-ministerial collaboration and cooperation,” a statement released Tuesday night noted.
“This has been done through the composition of Cabinet committees to address such issues as public sector reform and the vexations problem of crime.”
The statement noted that Cabinet ministers will renew and address the relevance of government policies and processes that govern the delivery of public services.
This will include the legislation, skills analysis, use of information technology, management of human resources, rewards for excellence, consequences for infractions and promotion of innovation.
“With regard to the issue of crime, the Cabinet committee will conduct research and must focus its attention on the youth employment and positive social and civic activities, the environment, strengthening literacy skills and consolidating the various apprenticeship programmes,” the statement said.
Each committee will be mandated to report within a specified period of time.
“As education is also of paramount importance, ministers and members of Parliament generally, have been encouraged to assist schools regularly to remain conversant with the status of school repairs to ensure that schools open on time.
“With this said, there must be the recognition that some ‘repairs’ are effecting much needed transformation of schools that should not only assist in the delivery of education but protect the health of teachers and students alike,” the statement noted.
The Cabinet Office also announced the following movements of senior officers in the public service.
The Secretary to the Cabinet Camille Johnson is currently on leave and Elise Delancy, permanent secretary in the Ministry of the Public Service and National Insurance, has been appointed to act in her place for the period of leave.
It was also announced that there will be several appointments to acting permanent secretary to fill posts created by retirement. These appointments will become effective September 1.
Further, in accordance with Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ announcement at the swearing-in of ministers, several permanent secretaries will also be redeployed as of the same date.
In addition, the movement of other senior officers will take effect on September 11.
“These movements are all intended to strengthen ministries for greater effectiveness in the delivery of services,” the Cabinet Office said.
“Again, to fill the posts left vacant by promotion and retirements, there will be promotions to the post of first assistant secretary.”
Comments
Truism 7 years, 4 months ago
Can't believe Zeus would have determine he gotta get soupaman some help. Wondawoman and all the other soupa friends shiould be wllling to assist in this quest.
ThisIsOurs 7 years, 4 months ago
I would have preferred a plan to a nice picture, anyway, more government by the news cycle...
"the statement noted that Cabinet ministers will renew and address the relevance of government policies and processes that govern the delivery of public services."
Why does that deserve a press release, that's their job...anyway good luck
John 7 years, 4 months ago
"*As historical interpretations go, this one is pretty non-controversial. Everyone who has heard about the “War on Drugs” knows that what we now call “mass incarceration”, the de facto national policy of locking up millions of low-level offenders, began long before 1994. And yet similar stories reporting that non-startling fact are now being published all across the American media landscape. That mass incarceration commenced before 1994 is apparently Big News.
Why report a historical fact that everyone already knows? The answer is because former president Bill Clinton, the man who called for and signed the 1994 crime bill, is also the husband of the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Democratic voters are having trouble squaring his draconian crime bill with his wife’s liberal image.
That might be the reason so many of these stories seem to unfold with the same goal in mind: to minimize Clinton’s moral culpability for what went on back in the 1990s. Mass incarceration was already happening, these stories agree. And besides, not everything in the crime bill was bad. As for its lamentable effects, well, they weren’t intentional. What’s more, Bill Clinton has apologized for it. He’s sorry for all those thousands of people who have had decades of their lives ruined by zealous prosecutors and local politicians using the tools Clinton accidentally gave them. He sure didn’t mean for that to happen." Not only did Clinton's 'crime bill" lock up millions of low income, mostly minorities, but a portion of the bill prevented these persons, once serving time,, from returning to their families if those families were receiving any form of government assistance,housing assistance, food stamps, educational grants etc., His wife followed with the 'super predator' experiments, where thousands of young black men were given drugs in Federal prisons to alter their behavior and personalities. Some of these drugs were so strong and mind-altering they even changed the individual's DNA. Had "Crooked" Hillary Clinton won the election, she would have continued this program by rounding up young, black men (whom she referred to as 'damaged goods, some beyond repair', and put them in 'concentration camps' (FEMA). Before you ever call Bill Clinton the first "black" president of the United States, go research his true history. And definitely that of his wife..shes still trying to climb back into power and into the spotlight. While he may have apologised for his 'draconian" crime bill that destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives, did he ever put measures in place to help restore any of those lives.?
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