Public Sector Leading Productivity Improvement Drive |
Contact: Rose Marie Harris
Friday, August 31, 2001
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establishment of a sustained productivity culture here on the island has been
singled out as the underlining factor behind a 12-month long series of seminars
aimed at improving productivity across both the public and private sectors.
King said both public and private sectors
organizations now need to look inward, in order to identify methods and
strategies that would enhance the island’s capacity at producing goods and
services more efficiently, competitively and at the highest quality.
“What is interesting with regard to the experience that our poultry farmers are going through right now is the fact that we have lost control basically of our economic sovereignty and because of our commitments to certain international trading arrangements, as was the case with bananas we now have the situation with the GATT. The biggest provider of services in countries like ours happen to be the state and if we’re not efficient in the production of services at the level of the public service, what it would do is to reinforce those hawks in the international financial institutions who would like to see all what that is currently being done by the state being (handed) over to the private sector,” the Senior Public Service Official ended. |
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