Dear Editor,
This past week as I visited the Essequibo Coast a friend pointed out to me that GPOC had advertised in the papers for a Personnel Assistant. I asked a few PO employees if they knew about that vacancy and was told no. Was it placed internally first as required?
On Sept 30, 2012, SN published a letter containing an analysis I did on issues in the GPOC and I ended with these words, “Someone please listen up and have them get back to the basics.”
Just a further point. When the GPOC was formed out of the ministry, the then management brought back a former SPO to head the personnel changeover.
When in the 1980 period they did a management development exercise with the assistance of Guystac, we had the strengths and weaknesses of every management person and the potential replacement listed, and training modules were developed to meet the perceived needs. So much so that when I took early retirement in 1991, we had in place a five year replacement plan to 1996.
After democracy in 1992, it seems that several changes occurred leading to this advertisement now for replacement in a GPOC department that traditionally replaced most of the Asst PMGS and almost all of the Deputy PMGs. Of course the head also came from that stream in the Phillipses, Halleys etc.
The GPOC had a thirteen-point structure up to when I left. The position of Personnel Assistant was placed on the same level 6 as that of a Postmaster.
Where does the need for that top heavy qualification and supervisory requirement come from, when there are three other senior positions up the chain?
Or are we structuring advertisements to fit one of the chosen few?
Please get back to the basics!
Yours faithfully,
LA Camacho
