Dear Editor,

Another National Insurance Board (NIB) executive has been axed by the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government. According to the June 5 edition of The Nassau Guardian, Vice President of Human Resources at NIB Richenda King was terminated on May 31.
The PLP-stacked NIB board made the decision on the day before her termination. King, according to The Guardian, was among seven or so NIB executives who pocketed over $700,000 in bonuses between January 1, 2010 and May 2012. So far it appears as if only a few Bahamians are sympathetic towards King and the other NIB executives.
In all likelihood, this is due to the revelation of the massive bonus payments that they received.
King was formally advised of the board's decision to terminate her services on May 31, which was a Friday.
However, The Guardian pointed out that she had already known of the impending dismissal before she was given her pink slip, thanks to bahamaspress.com. Hence, the board was preempted by the website.
This was the same website that published confidential information on fired NIB Director Algernon Cargill in December of 2012.
Judging from the contents of the articles on Cargill on bahamaspress.com, it is obvious to me that a whistleblower in the government is leaking confidential information to the website. At times, one is led to believe that bahamaspress.com has replaced Bahamas Information Services as the official news agency of the government of The Bahamas.
I am not writing to defend King or any of the other members of the executive board who received the hefty bonus payments. Whether it was right or wrong to fire her is not the focus of this letter. And whether it was right or wrong for the NIB executives to receive bonuses is another matter for another day.
That said, I think it was unprofessional and inhumane to leak information of King's dismissal to bahamaspress.com before she was given her pink slip. There are certainly right and wrong ways to go about letting someone go. And the way King was fired was the wrong way.
Can you imagine going on a website to read the news and finding a story about you being fired?
Christie needs to find out who is preempting his administration by leaking information to the aforementioned website and admonish the person or people to desist from their whistleblowing activities.

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