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Hon. Gapi Won’t Let The Door Hit Him On The Way Out
posted (November 13, 2015)
And Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega hasn't yet found a new office. The former Minister of Natural Resources is still camped out at that building on Queen Elizabeth Boulevard. So, is he just giving a hard time after being jilted out of a top notch ministry? Today Vega and his successor at Natural Resources, Godwin Hulse told the media it's not about that:...

Reporter
"You are remaining with your old office?"

Hon. Gaspar Vega, Deputy Prime Minister
"Until I get another office."

Reporter
"You will move out of that building....?"

Hon. Gaspar Vega, Deputy Prime Minister
"Eventually we will. It's a bit confusing offices and even staff, because we had one ministry with agriculture and lands and we were represented by one set of human resources and now it has to be spread out. So it's a bit confusing. We still have not settled those things."

Jules Vasquez
"Is the delay in your moving any indication of the fact that you might not be happy with having to move in general from the Ministry of Natural Resources?"

Hon. Gaspar Vega, Deputy Prime Minister
"None at all Jules. It's just that I have to make sure that I get an office where I can attend to the public also."

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Natural Resources
"I am in Belmopan fulltime working in an office I have that I do work out of already. But actually having a general meeting with my people, hopefully it happens next week."

Jules Vasquez
"Is there a dispute between the office? Minister Vega told us he is having some issue finding an office where he can deal with the public and also some of the staff which who will go over etc. Is there a problem with the actual office space?"

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Natural Resources
"There is not a problem. It's actually how the building is cut up and how it was designed. It accommodated over the last couple of years the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and so everything was structured for that. Now it has to accommodate two ministers, two deputy ministers, 4 CEOs basically and 4 or 8 secretaries. So we have to do create space that is workable functional. We are working on that as we speak."

Jules Vasquez
"Isn't that the Agriculture Department right over there behind you? Why then Minister Vega moved into that?"

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Natural Resources
"Because there is a larger section over there as I understand it, on the bottom floor and the top floor as well. So the personnel and the more operative senior personnel are seated across there. So that is the issue."

Jules Vasquez
"But you don't have any office."

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Natural Resources
"But I will have on Monday. I don't see that an issue at all. That's not an issue."

Jules Vasquez
"It could be indicative of a certain turf issue."

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Natural Resources "I don't think so at all."

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