(Ministry of Health Clarifies Recent Article on Clarevue Psychiatric Hospital)
The Ministry of Health has noted with concern a recent article relating to the Head of the Clarevue Psychiatric Hospital being placed on administrative leave. This article contains significant inaccuracies and in the interest of safeguarding public trust and ensuring clarity, the Ministry provides the following clarification.
The governance of the Ministry is defined by law and established administrative practice:
The Minister of Health is responsible for setting policy direction. The Permanent Secretary is charged with administrative management of the Ministry. The Chief Medical Officer has oversight of technical and medical matters.
It must be explicitly stated that the Minister of Health does not possess the authority to place any officer or employee on administrative leave. Such authority resides strictly within the administrative and legal framework of the Public Service.
The Ministry cautions that inaccurate reporting on sensitive health matters risks misleading the public and undermining confidence in our institutions.
The Ministry, therefore, respectfully but firmly calls for the immediate correction and retraction of the article, so that the public record accurately reflects the facts.
The Ministry of Health reaffirms its commitment to transparency, accountability, and the continued strengthening of Antigua and Barbuda’s health system. In particular, the Ministry remains steadfast in prioritising the safe, ethical, and professional delivery of mental health services at the Clarevue Psychiatric Hospital, in the best interest of patients and the wider community.
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It wasn’t his decision but I am sure he was made fully aware and concurred with whom has such authority……..hmmmmm……
Molwyn, the control freak, expects people to believe this rant?
Do not confuse Sir Molwyn with the Lipstick Hag! She is the one who CONTROLS PRINGLE PUPPET STRINGS. She is the one that prepares his Questions to the PM for Parliament. She is the one who CONTROLS his Press Releases. She is the one who CALLS THE SHOTS!!
Are you too “lub ugly” and love run with FAKE NEWS!!!
So retract the article but yall not stating the facts as to why you all ‘public servant’ put him on administrative leave…..bet if a low line officer did something wonderful the minister all prime minister and governor general would be there for photo op n claim good governance but when it’s somewhat negative it’s the other employees who are responsible not the higher ups
What a load of hogwash and gobbledegook by Molwyn. Yet, there’s no clarification in regards as to why Dr. Griffin Benjamin was removed from his post.
Molwyn Joseph always comes over like a man rearranging the chairs on the Titanic … 🚢
RETIRE YOURSELF NAH BOSS!
@Brixtonian September 8, 2025 At 3:59 pm
Brix Christopher Carmichael can you do me and many other a favor? Please ask your leader the Honorable Mr. Pringle what is the figure he was trying to read in Parliament the other day. I really am lost I cannot figure it our. I really would appreciate if you can find out for me. And tell him school children just started school. He can still join them.
Please Brix this is reminder in case you forgot to ask youe esteemed leader.
Am I missing something @ Less We Forget [You]. Didn’t you inform the ANR, the world and his dawg that you weren’t going to respond to anymore of my outstanding comments?
Bwoi, if I was given a dollar for every time you’ve said this I would have been a rich man by now 🤣
BTW, do you still see Gaston Browne 🥸 on a par with Jesus? You irreligious fooley man …
Remaining quiet would have been better than writting press release dear ministry of health. Remember these media people have no face. You just made this worse. Look at the ant next you created now. You send the man on leave ….leave the man alone
he people are tired of this back-and-forth. We deserve transparency. Was Dr. Benjamin sent on leave or not? It’s a yes or no question
Molwyn better behave before Dr Benjamin declare him unfit for public office. lol Aye. It is never a dull day on this media platform. Mind Gaston don’t shit you people down.
That last line. Antiguanewsroom and thekt bad self!!!
It’s called deflection. Just let Molwyn be. Every dog has its day
@Brixtonian September 10, 2025 At 11:28 am
It is not a respond to any of your comments. It is a request I am making of you. Don’t you know the difference. And please adhere to my request. I’m counting on you to ask your leader to tell you the number he was trying to read.
So the question now becomes… did you Sir Molwyn, give a directive to the administrative/ legal framework of Public Service, to place Dr Benjamin on administrative leave?
Because, it seems to me, you’re saying that you have no control over what’s done administratively in a ministry you’re in charge of.
No. MAN COW aka LIPSTICK HAG is the one who gives directives in UPP. She has “MORE BALLS” than even the Little Black Boy.
It was she who issued the DIRECTIVE to the WOMEN’S FORUM and instructed them to support Bro. Lovell because they don’t want no yardie in “Antigua subben”
Datta de “directive” you fu study.
That’s the MO of the ALP. It generally fails to speak the truth and the lowdown supporters always try to make a conversion of their lies. The Lawless Leader once said publicly that he will use Social Security money and then said defiantly that he never ever made such statement, while his hangars told us that he might have said it but that wasn’t what he meant. Nothing but stinking dirty liars.
Blessed Love Was there a concern with this ACTION? WHY was he anticipated to be or actually removed?…FOLKS STAY FOCUS…the conditions and more to be revealed. Open critical observation please encourage POSITIVE results..
Blessed Love
Antiguanewsroom giving facts, Ministry giving confusion. Who you think we going to believe?
So the Ministry thinks people stupid? You can’t deny the man is on leave when the letter is there in black and white.
Wait. But but but…why we bickering about who sent the man on leave? The story is whether he is on leave or not. Listen. When Molwyn don’t like someone he will make sure he gets rid of them. He will search for things that’s not there. How can you send the man on leave and give police to drop off the man letter at his home? Now trying to find out if he brought in pharmaceuticals illegally? Scanning through his arrival stubs and customs declaration forms at airport? On a fishing expedition. Just fire the man if you dont like him. Pay him and let him go. Find real work to do. The hospital rooms are breaking down they need repair. Wicked
Retired Civil Servant ….Retire in peace. As if you dont know how the ting go. I was in the public service too and nothing happens without the ministers approval. All the technicalities and hogwash dont matter. Antiguans not foolie.
“Less than a year after his appointment as head of Clarevue Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Griffin Benjamin has been placed on administrative leave by the Minister of Health, Molwyn Joseph.”
The first line of your report. I hold no brief for Molwyn Joseph or ALP, but there is no bungling in this response. The Minister states what I know to be true, a Ministers role is neither technical, nor administrative, it is policy direction. Putting someone on administrative leave is an action, not a policy statement.
Ministry of Health may be a mess, but don’t this matter into what it is not
My own comment, penned as Former Civil Servant:
“The Minister may not have legal right to a report on a patient. Did the Minister sign the contract of the Dr.? Can he legally put him on administrative leave? Generally, a Minister has neither technical or administrative responsibility in technical units like Clarevue. The Government has investigation procedures and protocols. These likely don’t involve the Minister/Politician.”:
AntiguaNews. note my questions. Had you written within this framework you would not have elicited the above response by Ministry of Health.
This is political theatre, plain and simple. Using letters and bureaucracy to shield decisions only makes him look guilty of mismanagemen
It’s called deflection. Just let Molwyn be. Every dog has its day
Remaining quiet would have been better than writting press release dear ministry of health. Remember these media people have no face. You just made this worse. Look at the ant next you created now. You send the man on leave ….leave the man alone
he people are tired of this back-and-forth. We deserve transparency. Was Dr. Benjamin sent on leave or not? It’s a yes or no question
All ah you all from Minister to head crearzy NF.
@ Less We Forget, it’s religious ZEALOTS like you is why many churches are empty nowadays (especially from the male populous).
I don’t have to respond to the likes of you, because you say so.
YOU NEED HELP!
My only concern is that my country is currently being run incorrectly, and Gaston Browne is only responding now by working on our infrastructures due to all the criticism he’s been receiving after 10 years of utter neglect and his plethora of broken manifesto promises.
My country is my only concern, and that it’ll be run one day by a real leader that’s NOT beholding to “lobbyists” and “think tanks” where money-grabbing is their main goals and not the citizens of Antigua & Barbuda.
Stay irreligious boss, and keep putting Gaston on a par with Jesus. How MAD are you to believe that!!!
Why are people asking why the Dr. was suspended. All this Press Release says is that the Minister did not suspend him as the power of suspension and all administrative matters are in the domain of the Permanent Secretary and Chief Medical Officer. So he was suspended but not by the Minister who has no such authority.
Jeeze. Why are people unable to read and understand basic Englsih?
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