Junior Social Protection Minister Simona Broomes yesterday defended her decision to ask the Public Service Commission (PSC) to suspend interviews to fill vacancies in her ministry, after being criticised by the PPP for unlawfully interfering with the commission’s work.
Broomes yesterday said she wrote to the PSC simply asking that interviews slated for May 29, mere weeks after the new administration took office, be discontinued until further instruction by President David Granger because of several complaints of irregularities in the hiring process. She added that she was not even clear if the vacancies really existed.
“Persons were being placed in jobs for which they were not qualified and I simply asked that the interviews be put on hold and I called the Secretary [of the PSC] and informed him of complaints that persons were being selected for political reasons. This is very shameful and