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January 24, 2018
COB worker 'took home extra 600,000 in pay'

FORMER College of The Bahamas employee Chimeka Gibbs took home just over $600,000 in extra payroll deposits from 2009 to 2015, Supreme Court jurors heard yesterday.

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January 18, 2018
COB worker's deposits 'rose by 10,000'

THE amount of extra money former College of The Bahamas employee Chimeka Gibbs received in payroll deposits from the college since 2010 increased by approximately $10,000 within a two-year window, Supreme Court jurors heard yesterday, totaling more than $100,000.

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January 17, 2018
'Clerk gave bank more than her annual pay'

SUPREME Court jurors heard yesterday how within one year, former College of the Bahamas (COB) employee Chimeka Gibbs received some $4,000 extra in payroll deposits from the college on top of her $30,000 salary...

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November 12, 2017
Female Employees Clean Up a Bahamas Waste

Waste Management is not usually an industry associated with the female gender, however, the women at Bahamas Waste continue to prove their worth in a male dominated field...

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September 29, 2017
Rolle: Christie admin. ballooned public salaries by 16.5 million

Minister of State for the Public Service and National Insurance Brensil Rolle yesterday revealed the government's payroll ballooned by $16.5 million in the last five months of the Christie administration's term, which is $6.4 million more than the initial assessments revealed. Speaking during the budget [...]
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August 28, 2017
'Pre-election public sector hiring much greater than originally thought'

Further assessments into the public service have revealed a substantially higher number of people hired in the months leading up to the May general election than originally thought, Minister of the Public Service and National Insurance Brensil Rolle said yesterday.
Speaking during the budget debate in May, Rolle said the public service grew by 6,500 people over the five-year term of the Christie a...

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August 17, 2017
Verification exercise could be telling

The government has mandated that all of its employees take part in an employee verification process by August 31 or face an interruption in their salaries. The exercise began last week.
According to a notice from the Public Treasury Department, employees must bring a Bahamian passport, Bahamian driver's license, National Insurance smart card or voter's card. All monthly and weekly employed public ...

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August 16, 2017
No additional resources for statistics dept. right now

The Department of Statistics will have to wait until the government's fiscal situation improves in order to receive the resources it needs, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes indicated yesterday.
According to the department's acting director, Leona Wilson, due to "constrained physical resources", the department is unable to produce more frequent labor force surveys.
Wilson said the department's staff is...

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August 11, 2017
Mitchell: Public service verification exercise farcical

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Fred Mitchell yesterday called on the government to rethink its "farcical" employee verification exercise.
Mitchell said it is "ridiculous and laughable" to expect Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling, among others, to identify herself to the treasurer of The Bahamas or have her pay interrupted.
He said it is an "indignity" to require ordinary Bahamians...

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August 10, 2017
D'Aguilar: Ministry of Tourism layoffs freed up crucial marketing dollars

The Ministry of Tourism's recent employee "restructuring" means the government has been able to free up money for marketing strategies that would have gone to payroll.
Minister of Tourism Dionisio D'Aguilar told reporters yesterday that tourism officials have received amazing ideas to market this country, but the ministry has not had the money to implement those ideas.
"The core mission of the Min...

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