MIND presents leadership awards to public servants
The Management Institute for National Development (MIND) Public Life Award for Leadership Excellence has been conferred on two prominent Caribbean public servants.
They are former financial secretary in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Devon Rowe; and director of information and communication technology, Government of Dominica, Jermaine Jewel JeanPierre.
The presentations were made during MIND’s Regional Public Sector Leadership Development Conference, which was held recently at The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, under the theme ‘Adaptive Public Sector Leadership: Changing MINDsets, Challenging Assumptions, Creating Transformation’.
Director of Business Development and Communications at MIND, Marlene Campbell, says each year the theme of the conference impacts the selection criteria for the awards and both recipients have demonstrated, through their work as public servants, that they are worthy of this recognition.
She points out that, for this year, the awardees were selected based on how they demonstrated support for the transformation of the public service; effectively addressed a public-sector leadership challenge of high importance to ministries, departments and agencies; and promoted integrity and respect within the public service.