Issues and Problems in Caribbean Public Administration

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• In the colonial period, day to day administration wascarried out through various departments eachadministered by a chief professional officer who was inturn responsible to a Colonial Secretary, or Governorin some instances, who was in turn responsible to theimperial government.6
• With self government then independence, decisionmaking and executive authority was transferred fromGovernors and Colonial Secretaries to local electedpoliticians serving as ministers.• Under this form of ministerial system which obtainsup to the present time, responsibility for policydecisions shifted from chief professional officers toministers of an elected government assisted byofficials, the senior of whom are the Ministers’ senioradvisors, the Permanent Secretary or as re dubbed inBelize in 2000, the Chief Executive Officer.7
Page 2 and 3: CONTENTS• The Origin of Caribbean
Page 4 and 5: THE ORIGIN OF CARIBBEAN PUBLICADMIN
Page 8 and 9: • In managerial terms, a fundamen
Page 10 and 11: • In the post independence period
Page 12 and 13: • The over centralization of auth
Page 14 and 15: • A general weakness in human res
Page 16 and 17: • The establishment of statutory
Page 18 and 19: RE ENGINEERING THE WHITEHALLMODEL
Page 21 and 22: CHANGE• It is evident that over t
Page 23 and 24: • In this prevailing environment
Page 25 and 26: Some key elements in this are:1. Th
Page 27 and 28: CONCLUSION• Change at the strateg

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