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Prime Minister Dr Ralph\nGonsalves has responded to Public Service Union (PSU) president Elroy Boucher’s\nallegations that he (Dr Gonsalves) has been involved in the proccess of\npromotions of public servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Prime Minister in\nhis response is alleging that Boucher, in his own personal interest, tried to\nget him to interfere in the process that is handled by the Public Service\nCommission – an independent body whose members are appointed by the Governor\nGeneral on recommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Dr. Gonsalves sought to explain the functioning of the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO) which is in the Public Service Commission and the process of appointments and promotions, ‘Candy Man’ interrupted him, telling him about Boucher’s allegation that he interfered or was involved with the promotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prime Minister said\nthat people get promoted and he “would learn that they get promoted”\nbecause he doesn’t have a say. He then went on to speak about an alleged\noccurrence where Boucher visited his office seeking his hel to get him\npromoted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “One day, a few\nyears ago before the last general elections – maybe a year or so before the\nlast general elections, Boucher came to my office. And, I’m sure when he came\nto my office to see me he would have had to leave his cell phone because he\nwouldn’t have been able to see me…<\/p>\n\n\n\n “And he said he\ncame to talk to me to see if I can help him to promoted to head the maintanance\ndivision at the hospital. I said, you know Boucher I don’t get involved in\nthese things; is there a vacancy? He said yeah, yeah, heah and he understand\nthat ther are people who are ahead … and they recommending somebody else. I\nsaid I don’t know anything about that. So, I say but I will find out from the\npermanent secretary,” Dr Gonsalves stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Prime Minister said\nhe found out from the permanent secretary that it was true that the position\nwas vacant and there were three persons recommended. Boucher was not one of\nthem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He said he was told\nthat the three persons were highly qualified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that it was\nagreed that Boucher had more experience but that he was “not a good\nworker.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I told Boucher that the permanent secretary told me that. Subsequently, I told Boucher that, when he wanted to find out,” Dr. Gonsalves said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister\nGonsalves said he was made to understand that Boucher took “a lot of time\noff” for his involvement with football and to deal with matters of the\ntrade union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I am telling you that Boucher tried to get me to get involved. And I’m telling you the result of that,” Prime Minister Gonsalves told ‘Candy Man.’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has responded to Public Service Union (PSU) president Elroy Boucher’s allegations that he (Dr Gonsalves) has been involved in the proccess of promotions of public servants. The Prime Minister in his response is alleging that Boucher, in his own personal interest, tried to get him to interfere in the process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-mainstory","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n