Businessman Charlie Palmer dismisses rumors that he threw Lands Survey staff out of his building today.
A source told RTC News today that the doors to the Lands and Survey department were locked today so that staff of that department was unable to go
inside and perform their daily duties. Our source further noted that non-payment of bills seem to have been the reasoning behind the decision
to shut down the office today.
However, RTC News caught up with Mr. Charlie Palmer this evening. He said nothing could be further from the truth. Palmer said he had received
correspondence from TCIG sometime in November last year that the departments that were housed in his PALMCO building on the Leeward
Highway, would be relocating to Butterfield Square effective 31st January.2012.
The three departments housed in the PALMCO building, were the Social Development, Valuation and Lands and Survey departments.
RTC News spoke further with a government official who reiterated that there was no truth to the circulated rumors of the staff of these
departments being locked out of their offices.
The government official noted that the decision to relocate these was to sort of create a one stop shop by centralizing these departments, which
would make it easier for the customer as they would not now find themselves having to for example, get a bill and then have to go to the
other side of town to go pay for and get a receipt for the same.
He said in addition to addition to reducing rent, the TCIG is seeking to promote efficiency and effectiveness by centralizing these functions.
He said TCIG will be undertaking similar moves in the islands of Grand Turk, South and North Caicos.
