 |
| Premier of Nevis the Hon. Joseph Parry | CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (August 9th, 2006) -- Members of the Nevis Island Administration Cabinet are now better placed to manage their new government positions following a two day symposium at the Mount Nevis Hotel which concluded on Friday August 4th, 2006.
The symposium was organised by the Nevis Island government to allow two facilitators from Trinidad to work with Cabinet to establish the procedures and protocols which govern the behaviour of government and to establish the conduct of ministers while in their new jobs.
According to Mr Parry, a number of important matters were addressed including the matter of Cabinet, its role and function in a country and the role of a minister, permanent secretaries and civil servants.
"Basically the Premier and the Cabinet are supposed to deal with policy matters, develop their policies out of their manifesto and by the way, we are going to table the manifesto of the Nevis Reformation Party as a working paper from which our programmes will come.
To ensure that the Ministers work with their ministries to implement the programmes that concern them, to make sure that the permanent secretaries know the desire of the Cabinet and the government and that they are the managers in implementing these programmes," he said.
Mr Parry explained that they [Cabinet and Advisors] learnt how submissions should be made to Cabinet, the treatment of Cabinet regarding confidentiality and secrecy and they looked at the various programmes they had identified during the campaign including crime, the high cost of living, education, jobs and roads in an effort to prioritise and to have these projects done.
~~Adz:Right~~According to Mr Parry, other areas that received attention during the symposium were the constituency and party agendas to ensure that the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) continued to be the bedrock of this whole Administration so that the Administration would not get separated from the NRP and the executive of the NRP.
"There is where we got our mandate in the first place and there is where our mandate must continue. But of course the most important of all is the role of the people of Nevis. We want to impress on all Nevisians that we are one, that we need to do this together, that we need to heal the country and we need to integrate the country.
"I have said previously and repeat there will be no victimisation but we will have to make some changes to ensure that our programmes are fully carried out and fully supported," he said. |
