Another Virgin Islander Oleanvine Maynard being forced out!
The circumstances sounding the decision to retire the indigenous Virgin Islander remain unclear as Mrs Maynard would have served less than 6 years in the Labour Commissioner’s post only after being appointed in 2008.
Following the 2011 general elections that saw the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government of Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith coming to power, many Virgin Islanders in the civil service have been forced to retire, fired, duties reassigned, transferred, or sent on leave.
Many locals have regarded their displacement in the civil service as political victimisation, double standards and there have been cases where Virgin Islanders have been replaced by expats. Two out of some five examples in the public sector were in the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Treasury Department.
Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Culture Mrs Carolyn O’Neal-Morton was forced out earlier this year and replaced by a Jamaican National Dr. Marcia Potter who is married to a local.
Also, former Accountant General Kharid Fraser and her Deputy Anna Rabsatt were forced out from the Treasury Department following the 2011 general elections. Ms. Rabsatt, who acted in the post of Accountant General for a short while, was replaced by an Anguillan national Kalleesha C. Mendie.
Earlier this year, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith told the House of Assembly that the post of Accountant General will be filled by a Virgin Islander.
Mrs Maynard was asked to take outstanding vacation days in 2012 but was never returned to the Labour Department following the ending of the vacation days. She was instead assigned to sit at the Conservation and Fisheries Department.
Hon. Pickering - I removed Mrs Maynard
On January 19, 2012 Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr. the Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering told a meeting at the East End/Long Look Community Centre that he was behind the removal of Mrs Maynard as Labour Commissioner.
At the meeting, Hon. Pickering said he went to Cabinet about his decision to have Mrs Maynard removed and that the decision came due to the high level of complaints surrounding her time as Commissioner.
"It was my decision. I took responsibility as the Minister and I went to my colleagues...There are too much complaints pointing to the direction of the Labour Commissioner. If you are going to move forward, I have to make a decision to move the Labour Commissioner. I take full responsibility for it;" Minister Pickering stated in public. However, he did not give details of the nature of the complaints.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour Ronald Smith-Berkeley when contacted about the pending forced retirement of Mrs. Maynard told this news site “I do not have any comments on that at this time”.
However, Virgin Islands News Online was informed by an NDP source that the matter was handled outside of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour and alleged that Mr Smith-Berkeley’s only role “may be to deliver the news to the officer”.
It is this news site’s understanding that Mrs Maynard is on sick leave and is expected to be told this week after a meeting about the decision to force her out of the service via retirement.
Two standards in the Civil Service; Governor gone AWOL!
Many persons, both inside and outside the civil service, continue to highlight the double standards, lack of integrity and credibility of the civil service, by the top brass making the decisions whereby some officers are disciplined and treated unfairly mostly over unproved allegations, while others with proved infractions, a blind eye is turned and the matter is swept under the rug.
Civil Servants and the public have also claimed that the United Kingdom appointed Governor William B. McCleary has not done anything to improve the morale and fair play of the civil service, and has allowed the public sector to become a political body, which has resulted in the displacement of professional officers, most often locals.
One of the many examples of lack of transparency and double standards in the civil service is the Deputy Governor V. Inez Archibald having long passed the government retirement age of 60, but they continue to write letters asking those who have passed or reached that age to retire.
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61 Responses to “Another Virgin Islander Oleanvine Maynard being forced out!”
Kedrick have Wilson hired for half a million dollars doing nothing for us & he ain't fire him who is a highly questionable character. This man is a dic**tor & thinks he cannot be touched but Jesus is stronger than satan & sin & satan to Him must bow.
Let them continue with their bull$h@#$$ with VIP vs NDP while the real 'tools' continue with their divide and conquer. All this bickering on here while the real deals are going down, by the time they realize what's happening it will be way way too late! Keep up the pettiness and political back and forth. Look around us and see what's going on. I really don't know what is wrong with our people at all. Nobody saying we won't have our falling outs, but in the last 2yrs the level of discourse on the blogs and in the street is really uncalled for. There are people watching on and laughing their a$$es off at our ignorance and our country is slipping away from our grasp. This is not VIP or NDP problem, neither party have a broke man or woman in it, they will be fine. Let's cut the bullsh$% and start taking our country seriously. I done talk!
Let her go put her hands in their pocket, take out the key and open the door to a job!
The indigenous Virgin Islanders goose cook as they are now a minority and the NDP does not need you all for the next elections so they can treat you all like $h!t!!!
Yall voted them out and voted them back in what did you expect, however if you arent performing then why should you keep your job local or expat!!!!
Let me tell you guys this just leave doc alone he is a man of god so you all can't touch him The Lord put him there to clean up labour. What he has done is is a good get her out. Good work doc I am praying for you they can't mess with gods solider God has you covered amen pray from the east