Prime Minister Freundel Stuart wants to see a proper performance appraisal system across the public sector to guide appointments and terminations.
“Until you have that, you will have low performers and drones and so on slipping through the system and some of your better and more conscientious people suffering as a result,” he told reporters yesterday.
He made his views known during a media briefing at Government Headquarters in which he said there had been flaws in the process the National Conservation Commission (NCC) used to select workers for retrenchment.
Stuart said people whose job it was to write those reports in the public service were often cautious because Barbados was a “small, highly personalised society” where “everybody knows everybody else”.
One problem was that the reports did not provide the evidence needed by the Public Service Commission to make decision on appointments, he said, citing the vexed issue of supersession. (TY)
