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HELP PLEASE: Security officers at Public Works are being bullied

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DEAR EDITOR:

Season’s greetings. I am writing to you all because I really don’t know what to do. Security officers at the Public Works Security Department are being bullied, verbally abused, lied on, victimized and straight up disregarded and disrespected.

We are adults, not children, For this woman supervisor to always be horrible to us and when we talk she carries us in front of the chief security officer and the coordinator and she tells blatant lies and they believe her. They like to threaten to fire people, send us home, take our jobs from us, intimidating workers into submission.

These people are sending workers to compounds that don’t have any shelter for security. We have to be catching up here and there. Rain is wetting us and sun drying us. Every day they are sending us to a different school. What about us that have children to take to school? They want us to come into Public Works for after 7 every day to sign and be dispatched.

They are not paying us for those times, they are paying us from 8-4. Every day a different officer is on school compound. Purcell don’t even do that because he know School should be different. Children need stability. Every day we have to be asking teachers and children their names. Sometimes we don’t know what to write in the books because we don’t know the teachers and anyone else working at the school names. We are confused.

Every time a teacher comes into the compound we have to be running behind them to ask: What is your name? Cleaners, what is your name? School meals workers, what is your name? Children, what is your name? This is difficult. We are dealing with school and I think officers should be stationary except if a worker is on vacation, sick day, sick leave etc.

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These people have workers today in Willikies, tomorrow is John Hughes, the next day is Old Road. Workers living in Old Road they send them Willikies, workers living up East they send round South, Workers living Town they send them to John Hughes.

We are disgruntled workers. We are unhappy because the management team is doing everything in their power to make us miserable and depressed. Miserable workers cannot perform well in their jobs. Also, the poor workers on the job program are taking a beating from these people.

Better must be done. Minister of Works you are a woman and most of the security officers are women. We need your intervention. We need a meeting so we can air our views. Please and thank you. We need help. For years and years we are suffering. We don’t want to continue to suffer in 2024.

Help please!

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2 responses to “HELP PLEASE: Security officers at Public Works are being bullied”

  1. To that security worker.You all as security workers need to come together and stand up for your right.Why don’t you all have a sick out and also demand a meeting with the Minister Maria and the PS for that ministry.If they fail to meet with you all do not work go on strike.In Antigua only when Govt workers strike that they are being looked after.Pls all of you Security Officers stand together and you will see mountain removed from your path..Pls go forth into 2024 with a different sense of mind.Fearing nothing.

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)

 

OECS MSME Guarantee Facility Project

Loan No.: IDA-62670, IDA-62660, IDA-62640, IBRD-88830, IDA-62650

Assignment Title: Senior Operating Officer (SOO)

Reference No. KN-ECPCGC-207852-CS-INDV

 

The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have received financing in the amount of US$10 million equivalent from the World Bank towards the cost of establishing a partial credit guarantee scheme, and they intend to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, and consulting services to be procured under this project. 

The consultant will serve as the “Senior Operating Officer (SOO)” for the ECPCGC and should possess extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to Micro, small and medium-sized businesses, knowledge of the internal control processes necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk mitigation procedures. The ideal candidate should possess an Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, Banking or related field, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in lending, inclusive of MSME lending. The initial employment period will be for two years on a contractual basis. Renewal of the contract will be subject to a performance evaluation at the end of the contractual period. The assignment is expected to begin on September 30th, 2021.  The consultant will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the ECPCGC.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be viewed by following the attached link below. 

 

https://bit.ly/3iVannm

 

The Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECPCGC) now invites eligible “Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have:

  • An Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Finance, Banking or related field; and
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in MSME lending. Applicants should also have:
  • The ability to design and implement risk management procedures 
  • Extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to small and medium-sized businesses
  • Extensive knowledge of MSME banking operations
  • Knowledge of the internal controls necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk management procedures
  • Experience developing and presenting information in public, including responding to questions in real-time
  • Experience lending to MSMEs located in the ECCU
  • Knowledge of marketing and communicating with the MSME sector
  • Ability to draft procedures to be used in a lending operation
  • Familiarity with the mechanics of a loan guarantee program
  • Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills, and
  • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite.

The attention of interested Individual Consultants is drawn to Section III, Paragraphs 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers July 2016, [revised November 2017] (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Approved Selection Method for Individual Consultants set out in the clause 7.34 of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers. 

 

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 0800 to 1700 hours:

Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation

Brid Rock, Basseterre,

St. Kitts.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form by e-mail by August 11th, 2021, to [email protected]

 

For further information, please contact:

Carmen Gomez-Trigg                                                            Bernard Thomas

Chief Executive Officer                                                          Chief Financial Officer

Tel: 868-620-8144                                                                  Tel: 869-765-2385

Email: [email protected]                                          [email protected]