FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025
VOLUME 119, No. 50
Complainant vindicated Page 3
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“REVIEW RECENT APPOINTMENTS,” PSU by DAYLE DASILVA
review of all recent appointments and A NEW PUBLIC SERVICE promotions which occurred COMMISSION (PSC) board is prior to the General expected to be named, and Elections of November 27, there has been a call for the 2025. The call was made by Public Service Union President, Elroy Boucher, following the Eastern Caribbean High Court ruling on December 4 that quashed the appointment of Deborah Charles as Simone Williams-Huggins, deputy Clerk of the House, the Clerk and followed the same fate as Simone WilliamsDebra Charles was removed Charles when she had her Huggins, Deputy as Clerk of the House when a appointment quashed by Clerk of the House ruling by the High Court the High Court. of Assembly (HOA). deemed her appointment to be The matter was procedurally improper. Huggins. taken up by the PSU The case was filed in the after a member of staff action that occasioned the court in 2023 and in the of the HOA, Celena case, Boucher said, “What recent ruling, Justice McDonald raised has happened here is not Cybelle Cenac-Dantes ruled concerns about the that the appointments were new; this is a consistent appointments of behavior or a practice by the Charles and Williams- essentially unlawful, Public Service Commission unreasonable and (PSC). procedurally improper. Elroy Boucher, President of the PSU, looks forward to the appointment of a new P.S.C., one that Commenting on the will adhere to regulations governing appointments and promotions in the public service. Continued on Page 3.
“I FEEL VINDICATED,” MCDOWALD
Right: Celena McDowald challenged the appointments of the Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the House on the basis that there was no advertisement of the posts as is required by Public service regulations.
House of Assembly. Celena McDonald, who worked “I FEEL VINDICATED.” in Parliament for 13 years, brought This was the reaction of a former the challenge through the Public employee of the House of Assembly Service Union (PSU), argued that when she learned that court had the Public Service Commission ruled in her favor in a case failed to follow proper procedures challenging the appointment of the when filling the two senior posts. Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the The court agreed, finding that there by KENVILLE HORNE
were violations in the appointment process. McDonald speaking at a Publicprivate Service Union press conference on Monday, December 08, said she became concerned in 2023 when the positions were filled without any advertisement or interview process.
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