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In both this case and the Brooks Towers Accord it is unfair to blame the Labor department for not doing their job properly and timely. All those, who have had to deal with work permits would be able to tell the history, if honest, during various periods of how the processing of the documents were being handled. Prior to the "then" New Labor policy (Jan. 2009), people had to wait at times up to 3 years before receiving their permits. All requests had to go to the commissioner's office then to the Exco for processing. This took years to be finalized. When the "New Labor Policy" (Jan. 2009) was implemented, and all processing was being done at Labor, the permits WERE being processed within the 6 weeks period. Come the new Government with their new commissioner of Labor, who so intently wanted to prove that Boasman was committing corrupt acts, and therefore decided that all requests had to go via the commissioner's office and Exco once again, the permits once again started experiencing looooooong delays in processing.

I think people should be honest enough and use their common sense and understand exactly where the problem lies. It has now been, clearly, proven that whenever requests have to go through the commissioner and Exco, the processing time becomes ridiculously lengthy. When Labor tried to strictly follow the Law, everyone made a huge uproar because the process was too strict. It was the Law but yet the New Government reversed it back to the old policy whereby many regulations do not have to be followed.
Don't blame Boasman and his staff, they CANNOT prevent their employer (EXCO) from implementing whatever Laws they want. Also scrutinize the files, as the report says, of whose files HAD to be worked on by the Interim head personally, I think many will be very much surprised. Yes, EXCO, please enlighten us on those files.

Residency permits? Their processing times are even worse than the work permits. At times the work permit expires and people still could not collect their residency permits, even as is in the case with the Brooks Towers. Many persons, from Category 1 have not received their residency permits or even received a notice if it was turned down. So I think the Minister should take a serious look at what she is saying and indeed the SOAB report should be looked into to see exactly what are the reasons for some of the "administrative discrepancies" they have found. Now I understand why the Interim head is so difficult. Because they are out to get him and have tried in all ways possible to get him to do their bidding. But he held strong and thank God for that or the SOAB report would have NOW read, huge corruption scandal found at Labor. On the contrary, all the “big boys” complained because Labor would not accept their “incomplete” requests.

So Mr. "new" Commissioner of Labor, it is back to the old drawing board for you. Show us all the, so called, corruption the Interim head committed. You better learn to concentrate on doing your job properly. God bless the SOAB report.

"The investigators from SOAB indicated that their findings is not a fraudulent report,"

So Mr. Commish, what is your statement on that remark from the SOAB.

You asking the commisioner that did not know the name of the swine flu to answer these questions?

they cant find nothing, meaning SOAB, because he done take all the those files what he had to with away from the office since day one. The person that move them for him got a big promotion and the ex police the detective house he put them in died the other day, So dont fool yourself partner. who know knows and who dont dont . And I believe you are the one who is writing this whole long blog,

Don't act as if boasman never did any wrong, he was just a litle more careful in his doings. All in power take advantage of their position, until they get caught. I am glad these reports are being drawn up, because now politicians will think twice before abusing their power and those they put in positions to help them get away with it. It feels like the time has come to expose all the nasty, little dirty games played with the population. I'm glad that we are heading in the direction where you don't have to have a socalled title, or be afraid to show your political preference in fair of retaliation. Free at last , free at last , thank god almighty we will soon be free at last.

These reports are good, however, we must act on them. They provide valuable information to the ongoing and incompetance of our government institutions.
Furthermore, we have the right to know. When the system is not good or provide room for corruptive practices, then lest fix it.
We need to take stock of what we need and who we have. SXM is only 16sq miles, why can't we provide an account of what human resources we need. There are a lot of loop holes in the system where people place ads as a formality, not to necessarily fill a position, but the gain a permit for cheap labor manily coming from India and other places.