PM Explains Recent C.E.O. Shifts

Prime Minister John Briceño

PM Briceño was also asked about the reason for a recent C.E.O. shuffle that included the Immigration Department. As we have reported, Chief Executive Officer, Adele Catzim-Sanchez was moved over to the Ministry of Human Development, while C.E.O. Tanya Santos was shifted to the Immigration Department. PM Briceño explained that like government ministers, CEOs are also moveable. He further noted that these government officials are a better fit for the posts they have been relocated to.

Prime Minister John Briceño

“Ms Catzim, probably you are too young to remember, Ms Catzim between the 1998 and 2008 government, she worked closely with the Minister Dolores in that administration. We wanted to do some changes and it just worked well for her to come to work with Minister Dolores and to move Tanya over to immigration and then Mr. Middleton to move over to the Ministry of Sports and Transport. So it worked well for the change we want to do, but we need to make the point that CEOs just like ministers are changeable. While they may be working in a ministry if we feel they will make a better fit to another ministry we will make those changes.”

Reporter

“I believe this will be Minister Ferguson’s third CEO; does the rest of Cabinet intervene at any point to address why he has made so many changes in CEOs?”

Prime Minister John Briceño

“I don’t think we need to look at it as being the third CEO. In the first instance he was with CEO Leal and when they were not getting along so the best thing at that time was to make a change. And now that we wanted to bring Adele where she is most effective, at Human Development, then we had to make some additional changes.”