{"id":4187,"date":"2017-07-13T18:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2017-07-23T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:34:29","slug":"govt-to-annette-mark-please-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/govt-to-annette-mark-please-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to Annette Mark: please stay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After resigning for \u201cpersonal issues\u201d on July 10, 2017, the government has asked Chief Immigration Officer Anette Mark to reconsider her decision.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are waiting to see what comes out of it,” said Immigration Minister Charles Max Fernandez.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll have to wait for more than a week to know whether Mark, whose appoint was controversial in the first place, will make good on her intentions.<\/p>

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The Vincentian is on holiday and when she was appointed in 2015 the opposition called for her resignation over the belief than an Antiguan & Barbudan should hold that key position.<\/p>

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Mark was also at one point at loggerheads with her own government over the strong stance she took in dismissing a handful of immigration recruits who had failed a polygraph test.<\/p>\n

There was also speculation that her contract would not be renewed but Fernandez says that\u2019s not true.<\/p>

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\u201cI don\u2019t think there was any problem with the performance,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

Mark wants a deputy to be put in place pending her possible departure and the minister told a local radio station that there are options.<\/p>

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