Taxpayers are bearing the weight of an $81-million and rising salary bill for seven suspended public officials as a result of drawn-out investigations and administrative limbo within government agencies. The $81 million represents the total pre-.
T he Gleaner congratulates Leonard Francis on his promotion to the post of chief executive officer of Jamaica’s National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). We, as is likely to be the case with most people, welcome his pledge to deepen.
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Senior trade unionist Vincent Morrison has questioned the role of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) board during the initial discovery of breaches at the housing development owned by National Water Commission President Mark Barnett and his wife Annette Francis-Barnett, charging that NEPA’s interdiction of the inspector, who was the first to highlight the irregularities, is suspect. The officer who the Jamaica Observer was told had responsibility.