{"id":241832,"date":"2003-04-03T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/04\/govt-announces-permanent-secretary-shuffle"},"modified":"2003-04-03T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T17:25:21","slug":"govt-announces-permanent-secretary-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/04\/govt-announces-permanent-secretary-shuffle","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t Announces Permanent Secretary Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Endorsing a top position in the United Nations for a Bahamian permanent secretary has forced the government to shuffle more top civil servants and officials have vowed to make an even more comprehensive review. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The changes are affecting key government ministries. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>On Monday, Prime Minister Perry Christie announced that outgoing Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Missouri Sherman-Peter was being seconded as the head of Cabinet to the President of the United Nations General Assembly. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>It left officials to consider a replacement. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The government has decided that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Patricia Rodgers will replace Mrs. Sherman-Peter. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Plans have been made for the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Financial Services and Investments Colin Higgs to be transferred to the Ministry of Tourism.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>His position will be filled by the now Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture Sheila Carey. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Undersecretary in the Office of the Attorney General Harrison Thompson will become the new Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The changes will take effect Monday. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>A government spokesman said further changes in top civil servants posts are expected soon. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>He said Prime Minister Perry Christie is committed to the most efficient organization of human resources in the public sector to achieve the government&#8217;s objectives moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government spokesman said further changes in top civil servants posts are expected soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}