Browne Administration scapegoats civil servants to cover ministerial incompetence
Once again, the Nation is witnessing the Browne Administration’s tired, cynical playbook: When things go wrong, blame everyone else, especially the hardworking public servants, while shielding failed ministers from the consequences of their incompetence.
The recent reshuffle in the Ministry of Education is not a bold step forward. It is a cowardly retreat from accountability. Instead of addressing the blatant mismanagement that led to the teachers’ industrial action and payment fiasco, Prime Minister Gaston Browne has chosen to throw permanent secretaries and senior civil servants under the bus. This is not reform; it is pure politics of deflection. It is not just a reshuffle; it is a reshuffling of blame.
Let us be clear: civil servants implement the decisions of their ministers. If policies fail or departments falter, the buck stops with the ministers and, ultimately, with the prime minister, himself. But, true to form, this Administration continues to protect weak political leadership while sacrificing dedicated professionals.
This is a pattern of governance that is reckless, corrosive, and dangerous to the public service. It demoralizes our institutions, discourages initiative, and tells civil servants that loyalty and service mean nothing when the political heat turns up.
Compare this to the leadership the United Progressive Party (UPP) offers: We believe in empowering professionals, not undermining them. We will hold ministers accountable, not above the law. We lead from the front, not from behind smokescreens and gutter-radio presentations crafted to distract from failure.
The people deserve a government that takes responsibility; not one that scapegoats. They deserve leadership that lifts up our institutions; not one that uses them as shields to hide ministerial failure. They deserve results; not excuses. Therefore, the time has come for a new era of leadership, one rooted in integrity, accountability, and genuine public service.
That is the leadership the United Progressive Party offers.
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It is really a new and welcoming phenomenon that we are experiencing in government where public servants are held to account for for action or inaction. The feeling and impression that anything goes in government must come to an end. When people are held to account, standards are raised.
Absolutely correct.
A new phenomenon….
UPP to tge rescue…..
Says who.???
We want change not exchange…..
Gaston is tyrannical, oppressive, repressive, abusive, vindictive, wicked, greedy, unconscionable, and narcissistic…..
However he is capable…..
What the the UPP offer.?????.
An exchange…..
Worse than gaston……..
Pringle????????
Incompetence……
A puppet…….
A press statement reader………
The people say we want chnage………
NOT EXCHANGE…….
We all suffer with Gaston……
We all foe with Pringle…..
Therr is hope beyond suffering………
None after death……….
Sometimes I wonder if upp members think before they speak, reading this article show how much someone is playing mp Pringle against himself because he himself and shugy ms Issac all was involved in areas at the M.O.E the idea of spending ec240 million by former minister of education under upp Jackie come up with the separation package that see our best teachers get push out of the system, you guys cant be the the same set talking now. Just imagine people reading the article and not seeing the contradiction in it for instance “Let us be clear: civil servants implement the decisions of their ministers. If policies fail or departments falter, the buck stops with the ministers” we all know that P.S run all ministry in government, and mr Pringle if the minister is to take the blame for the P.S not implementing their decisions, what should the government do about it 🤔 why should teachers strike over allowance and when they look into the matter the money was transfer to make the payment to the point that some of the check was outdated, so who is responsible for that because the government pay this is why the government published the list of teachers who was supposed to calect their money and did not know the money was available
Accountability for thee, but not for me. The incompetent minister needs to be fired. The minister formulates policy. Civil servants are implementing the nonsensical ideas of this ALP government.
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