Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has given the assurance that his government is giving serious attention to improving the public sector.
He told an audience of business people at the recent 185th anniversary luncheon of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry that Cabinet was revisiting the whole issue of public sector reform to see how best the functioning of the civil service could be married to the concept of development and the pursuit of developmental objectives.
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The Prime Minister said that, unfortunately, the island still had a colonial type of public service with those existing mindsets.
"The volume of paper passing that has to be done, the strict adherence to hierarchy and to rules, and that kind of thing... that can collide with the expectations of those who are anxious to see genuine developmental objectives pursued,” he said
He pointed out that in small, highly personalised societies like Barbados, with the civil service being the largest and, for all practical purposes, the all-consuming bureaucracy, public sector reform has become a lot more challenging.
"As a government we are looking at it because we hear the complaints, we ourselves as ministers experience the arterial blockages that necessarily slow down the whole decision-making process," Stuart said.
The Prime Minister said there’s a need for a public service that can respond creatively to the focus on pursuing developmental goals.
(UNPAN)
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