{"id":7723,"date":"2017-10-02T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:04:58","slug":"no-replacement-yet-for-immigration-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/no-replacement-yet-for-immigration-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"No replacement yet for Immigration chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government is yet to decide on a replacement for Chief Immigration Officer Annette Mark whose resignation takes effect next week.<\/span><\/p>

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Mark tendered her resignation on July 10, which should take effect on October 15, but at that time the government requested that she continue in the post.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minister with responsibility for immigration Charles\u00a0\u201cMax\u201d Fernandez told\u00a0Antigua News Room (ANR)\u00a0<\/i>the Cabinet is still mulling the decision as to who will replace Mark.<\/span><\/p>

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Fernandez said she is presently on vacation.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cBut we have a deputy, an acting deputy right now\u2026Cabinet hasn\u2019t confirmed anybody for the chief\u2019s position yet,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark\u2019s appointment was criticised by many in some circles, including the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP). She is originally from St Vincent.<\/span><\/p>

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The immigration chief had recommended that the government consider someone from within the Immigration Department to replace her, but Fernandez said the ultimate decision is vested with the Cabinet as to who will be Mark\u2019s replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that has always been the recommendation even when we used her, the recommendation was to use somebody inside but we chose her. It\u2019s a recommendation. She recommended several people, that\u2019s true, but at the end of the day several people were also recommended when she was chosen. So it is not necessarily (that) it will be amongst them , but certainly they will be considered,\u201d Fernandez told ANR.<\/span><\/p>

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Mark, who before her appointment as head of the Immigration Department was working in the\u00a0Office of the Attorney General, Ministry of Legal Affairs, was on secondment from the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy (ONDCP), where she was\u00a0a legal advisor from 2012 to 2014. She was\u00a0director of\u00a0anti-corruption\u00a0while working at Legal Affairs.<\/span><\/p>

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She became the immigration head on June 1, 2015, on a six-month contract initially. Her current contract would have expired in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark took over from\u00a0Lieutenant Colonel Ivor Walker\u00a0after he was returned to\u00a0the Antigua\u00a0and\u00a0Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF)\u00a0from\u00a0where\u00a0he was seconded in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

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