As we told you at the top of the newscast, Immigration Director Ruth Meighan has been transferred to the Ministry of Finance. She had worked well with her Minister Godwin Hulse, but reports are that she ran afoul of the minister of state Elvin Penner. And so, Cabinet decided on Tuesday to transfer her, and 72 hours later, she was gone. Today in Belmopan, pour colleagues at Plus TV asked Minister Hulse about it:
Godwin Hulse, Minister of Immigration
"Actually she is not leaving, she is being transferred to the Ministry of Finance to fill a post that has been vacated by an officer who has resigned and whose last day is Friday. so Miss Meighan will be filling that post and we will be upgrading somebody within the department to take the directorship that she will be leaving. That has not been determined yet, so we don't want to disclose who that person will be and who the deputy or others will be. That is really the only change. Any other rumors that are circulating are nothing more than just rumors because you know when there are these changes, there are all sorts of things circulating over the place. The fact of the matter is that she is going to the Ministry of Finance to fill that post and so we have to fill her post in the department of
Immigration. There is no other change in the ministry whatsoever. Minister Penner remains the Minister of State and I remain the substantive Minister."
Reporter
"Could you comment on her performance at this job? Is this normal procedure to move somebody when there is not anybody else - you have to create somebody to fill her post? Somebody of her stature in the Ministry."
Godwin Hulse, Minister of Immigration
"The public service had this. Every HOD can be moved around."
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