Public Service Week celebrated countrywide

Public officers across the land are celebrating Public Service Week with various activities. Earlier this week, many were honoured for their dedication and years of service in government. Today we caught up with a group of them at the Liberty Home in Ladyville. Thirty-two officers from the GST, Income Tax, Treasury, Election and Boundaries, Police, Customs and Immigration Departments teamed up and got dirty when they planted trees and cleaned up the children’s home.

Delanni Thurton-Romero, Member, Public Service Committee
“We all sat down and decided that we thought that we wanted to help the Liberty Home in their cause and help them in anyway that we can. And we found out that a hundred Malaysian dwarf coconut trees were being donated from the Coconut Hybridization Program in Central Farm and so we thought it was perfect timing and that we would come up here and plant those trees today. So about twenty of us are here and the other twelve or so are back at the home doing spring cleaning, playing with the kids, help cooking, gardening, whatever needed to be done.”

Duane Moody
“What is it like to be out of your work clothes and being out here getting your hands dirty?”

Shelly-Mae Crawford, Representative, Police Department
“For me, it’s a learning experience and it is something that I lately have been thinking about seeing the way the economy is going, we need to get into our subsistence farming and do something. I think that being out here it brings on an awareness and it makes you appreciate things more. And after hearing Ms. Mitchell this morning with the challenges which they are facing at this time, I mean it makes you feel even more to be a part of this because you’re giving them the support—the things that they need.”

The theme for this year’s Public Service Week is “A Renewed Public Service: Reaching Higher Heights in Professionalism, Efficiency, accountability and Transparency.”