Caribbean Cabinet secretaries conclude working visit to Belize

charles gibson

Cabinet secretaries from across the Caribbean region concluded a two-day working visit to Belize this afternoon. The conference saw the participation of several high level delegates within the Commonwealth Caribbean discussing policies that should see the advancement of their roles within the various government departments.

Charles Gibson, C.E.O., Ministry of Public Service

“It’s the fourth Commonwealth Caribbean Consultative Meeting which involves cabinet secretaries, permanent secretaries in the region, we call them C.E.O.’s.  As well as the people who head the Public Services Commission, heads of the Public Services Commission and what this meeting is going to do really is to look at various strategies how public service delivery could be improved throughout the Caribbean.  As you know many public services are challenged by shrinking budgets, by people who do not have the requisite training and a number of other crosscutting issues.  So what this meeting is trying to do is to bring in cabinet secretaries from across the region and as I said including heads of the public service and also persons who are chair of the services commission.”

Dr. Joan Wahsiki, Advisor, Governance in Institutional Development

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“Belize has some models that the other cabinet secretaries would be able to see for example the chief executive officers which are in every ministry while some of the Caribbean or most of the rest of the Caribbean they use permanent secretaries.  And that is the model that seems to be working for Belize and I think its good exposure to them, as well as the rainforest and the clean development mechanism which Belize being in Central America should take advantage of.”