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| Audley Gordon - NSWMA Executive Director |
Do we have any tertiary academic institutions in Jamaica where waste management is studied? Are we to believe that because someone has a doctorate, that person is more qualified to run the waste management organizations? Management must have the freedom to select the best, and the best does not necessarily mean people with academic degrees on their heads.
Age is another criterion that we use to block talented people from working with the state. This is a poor country. Let those with their doctorates go and do research and lecture at the tertiary level. That is where Jamaica needs its academically qualified people, rather than having them sitting in air-conditioned offices. Degrees don't work for organizations, performance and integrity do.
Academic achievement should not be the main consideration for many jobs in Jamaica. Many people have learned by experience on the job. I have given quite a few jobs that I was not academically qualified for. I was a programmer/analyst for Air Jamaica, and I wrote their pass bureau system, which three graduates of the UWI failed to write and implement. The first time I went on stage as an actor in Trevor Rhone's "School's Out," I received a gold medal and best supporting actor in the professional JCDC drama category. When I went to JBC as a youngster, I did not attend any institution to study broadcasting before.
When I read the Gleaner article about people being employed without qualifications and noted that this was brought to light by the internal audit report, I knew that someone was out to make problems for the NSWMA. Someone must have leaked this report to the Gleaner.
If someone leaked this report, there must be a motive. Nobody is willing to give me information, but I gather that there is a disgruntled employee who is spreading negative things about the NSWMA. What the audit should also tell us is if these people without the academic qualifications can do their jobs and are doing a good job. This is what matters. Careful how you dig holes; you might be preparing a hole for yourself.
I am on record as saying that I am proud of the work that Executive Director Audley Gordon is doing. When I bring citizens' complaints to the organization, the organization responds immediately. The sanitation workers have now been put on staff, and the NSWMA's annual accounts are now up-to-date. The question is, what was happening before Mr. Audley Gordon went there?
One or two evil people are working at the NSWMA. Their evil might spread like an aggressive cancer throughout the organization.
I forgot that the Gleaner posted the "unqualified people" (sic) salaries. Have they done so to light the band-mind fire in society? I wonder if the article was written by a qualified person, and I wonder what their salary is.
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I cant say any thing about how good he is doing as I dont know his job description. Those things mentioned are good but for something like waste management it needs a lot more like having different cells for different types and lining site to prevent water pollution and sorting waste rodent control etc
ReplyDeleteWhere would one go in Jamaica to learn these things?
DeleteWell said Missa D, Bark Di Trute let us say the NSWMA is a can do organization.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you can do the job required of you "NO PROBLEM".
People must also realize that many scientific discoveries were made by people without certified Paper qualifications.
Recall the Wright Brothers and Aeroplanes?.
People mix up cartons of paper qualifications and many subjects for education.
EDUCATION IS THE APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE THAT RESULTS IN THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND.
Let that sink in, even an illiterate could be demonstrably well educated.
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That is the problem in Jamaica too many qualifications and the work is not being done and the person without qualifications is pushed aside.
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