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The Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC; French: Commission de la fonction publique du Canada) is an independent government agency that safeguards merit-based hiring, non-partisanship, representativeness of Canada's diversity, and the use of both official languages (English and French) in the Canadian public service. The PSC aims to ...
Permanent secretaries are the chief executive officers of government ministries in Barbados and are responsible to the Head of the Public Service, who is Chairman of the Committee of Permanent Secretaries and Officers of Related Grade established by the Public Service Act, and to the Parliament of Barbados.
Edward Evelyn Greaves (19 April 1940 - 22 September 2018 [1]) was High Commissioner of Barbados to Canada from 2008 until 2015. [2] He was previously a representative for the constituency of St. Lucy (1971–1981) [ 3 ] and (1986–1994).
The current resident High Commissioner from Canada stationed in Bridgetown is Marie Legault, [2] who has a long career in international diplomacy. The office of the High Commissioner also works with the 3,000-4,000 registered Canadian permanent residents who reside in Barbados.
Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, GCMG DA (15 November 1916 – 19 December 1995) [1] was the first female governor-general of Barbados. [2] Barrow was a nurse and a public health servant from Barbados. She served as the fifth governor-general of Barbados from 6 June 1990 until her death on 19 December 1995. [3]
Henry de Boulay Forde was born on 20 March 1933 on Water Street, Christ Church, Barbados to a working class family and attended Christ Church Boys’ Foundation School for the start of his secondary education, [1] from which he won a scholarship to Harrison College, the premier boys' secondary school of the island, from which he won the Barbados Scholarship in Classics which took him to Christ ...
Public Service Commission of Canada; Public Services Commission of Ghana; Public Service Commission (Hong Kong) Public service commissions in India, state and central commissions Union Public Service Commission, central governmental recruiting agency for the civil services of India; Public Service Commission (Kenya) Public Services Commission ...
Prior to introduction of responsible government in 1848, the Province of Canada, then a British colonial possession lacked an organized civil service. [5] Positions in the colonial administration were then largely filled through patronage, with appointments almost exclusively controlled by the sitting governor, often under the advisement of members of the ruling Family Compact, who would ...