Providenciales, TCI, February 15, 2017 – New government hiring and the financial sector is to get immediate attention after decisions taken at the Appropriations Committee level and Premier, Sharlene Robinson says the PDM Administration is simply responding better to country needs, than did the previous PNP Administration.
“The contingency fund did have a deduction for enforcing the perimeter, reinforcing the perimeter. This Mr. Speaker that is a part of our supplementary appropriation is for urgent staff needs. Mr. Speaker I refuse to believe that the prison has identified in the one month or so that we’ve become the government that they need additional staff. And thought there hasn’t been that great an increase in the prison population, these request have to have been made before and must have fallen on deaf ears.”
Hon Robinson said she believes there had long been understaffing at Her Majesty’s Prison and the new government has taken action and agreed to the give the Superintendant the funds to hire five people now.
“So in this supplementary appropriation it was important for this new administration to give the prison five additional staff and you will see more staff coming in the budget. So this is not something that the former administration did, but certainly Mr. Speaker a decision that we have made in the few weeks that we have been in office responding positively to the needs of the prison.”
Madame premier also pointed out that while there had been a working group for the Financial Services Sector, the PDMs strategy is to name individuals to the body and to get it up and running by end of the month. “We are going to also give them the responsibility to assess the financial services sector and within this week all of the appointees will be confirmed.”
In a move some labeled ‘nit-picking’, ‘over the top’ and others called ‘a new day’ and ‘necessary’; Hon Washington Misick, the former Finance Minister was suspended from debate until further notice for using ‘offensive language’, which is in breach of parliamentary debate rules. The ‘language’ had come over charges that the PDM was taking credit for PNP work.
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