MOA- Minister Smith and Permanent Secretary Christopher held meeting with Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries staff by Carol-Faye Bynoe-George
Today, Monday 22nd July, after brief introductions and hand-over by Miss Sandra Joseph, former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture. Minister Anthony Smith newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Lands and Blue Economy and Mr. Walter Christopher, the ministry’s newly appointed Permanent Secretary held an inaugural meeting with the heads of departments within the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
During the deliberation it was disclosed that the Mr. Walter will be taking a leave of absence due to the passing of his mother and will resume active duty from 12th August.
The heads all extended condolences to the new Permanent Secretary.
Additionally, best wishes were extended to Permanent Secretary Sandra Joseph on her new appointment at the Ministry of Tourism.
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HE SHOULD BE. ASHAMED OF HIMSELF ..!!! TRIATOR .. !!! SELL OUT. FOR. ” 30 Pieces of. Silver “. JUDAS. ISCARRIOT …!!!
Get over it. Stop you crying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYoxRvmg5O4
Mr. Smith, just know the honeymoon won’t be long. By the end of the week the honeymoon is over. So you better learn very fast. Lots of corruption in Agriculture. Almost all the extension officers including the head of them, have their own farm and therefore have conflict of interest. Its all for themselves. You cannot even schedule the long arm boom to come clean a pond for you. I don’t know how you are going to address this endemic behavior. They will remain there for the rest of their live while you and other ministers come and go.
But good luck and all the best in your future endeavor.
Just talk to Joan Massiah, Samantha Marshall. No need talking to Dean Jonas or Chet Green.
All the effort put in by China was almost for nothing. And just fire Lamin. He is causing more problems for you in there. Get you own right-hand man from your constituency to be your eyes and ears.
@Less In the case of agriculture, it might not be a bad thing if workers in the Ministry have their own farms. They might then make more informed decisions than persons not currently in the business. Of course there should be oversight to ensure that they don’t make any underhanded deals to favour themselves only. All farmers should benefit fairly from all policies and programmes. The Ministry should also make decisions that benefit the general public not only the farmers. E.g. don’t only produce and sell produce at high prices to visitors but also ensure there is a good, readily accessible supply at reasonable prices for locals.
@Good luck July 23, 2024 At 1:28 pm
You cannot be that naive. This is more than human nature. This is Antiguan Nature. Tek what you can tek what you can get. What we need in ministries like agriculture is qualified professionals that do not have conflic of interest to implement gvernment policies without fear or favor. Why is it we demand from our politicians that they do not have any conflict of interest when dealing with state business. We must demand that as well from our public servants. Because their is where most of the shenanigans take place. How many engineer in Public Work do not have their own engineering company and many times they assign jobs to themself. When on a project many years ago an engineer from Public Works who had the task to oversee the project, told us straight up that if we do not give him the engineering work he will not approve it and cause us lots of delays and horrors. So what do you do? You work with him and give him the job. He will then sent his workers to execute on his behalf. This is Antigua. And the minister have nothing to do with it and have no clue either. As I said ministers will come and go, but the public servants will stay. Another cesspool of corruption that the Prime Minister highlighted was the collaboration of some custom officers with certain importers. And then at Inland Revenue you have some of the inspectors colliding with some companies to understate their profits in order for them to pay less taxes. Corruption is all over our system of governance. One can ask, When will this end? And I’ll say, when Jesus comes back for his earth.
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