Patrick Boyle, Chief Executive, TCI Government, said in a release to RTC News: “On behalf of His Excellency the Governor and I, I would like to take this opportunity to thanks everyone who has volunteered to leave public life at this time for their service to the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and wish them the very best for the future.
“Over the course of the past few weeks I have spoken to many civil servants who have told me about their new exciting plans for the future and see this as a real opportunity to take a new direction in their lives, whether retraining, re-entering education, setting up in business for themselves, or using their compensation to change their pace of life.
“Civil Service reform still continues and the five Permanent Secretaries and I are working hard to set up the new Ministries which will seek to continue to improve public services across the Islands.”
This following a recent sit down with RTC’s Robert Hall for Expressions. Mr.Boyle revealed the following stats of the severance package to the Nation through Expressions.
- Budget for administering scheme, including payments to applicants, $8.3m
- 700 expressions of interest received, who all received quotes
- 500 people applied to go (both salaried and weekly paid)
- 399 severance proposals accepted – 134 rejected
- Salaried staff – 186 accepted, 60 applications rejected
- Weekly paid staff – 213 accepted, 74 rejected
- $7.8m paid to staff whose applications were accepted
- receiving an average of $19,548 per head
- highest amount received was $194,000, the smallest $975
- 399 severance proposals accepted – 134 rejected
