Barbados PM instructs gov't workers use official emails for business

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has instructed public sector workers to use an official email when conducting business on behalf of the government.

She gave the instruction yesterday while addressing a meeting between her government ministers and the Committee of Permanent Secretaries and Related Grade.

She disclosed that the government was spending a lot of money to invest in a secure technological platform, and it should be used.

“I have advised the Cabinet and I am saying it to all public officers too that no business of the Government of Barbados should be conducted on anything other than an official email,” Mottley said.

“We have to move to this platform, if not the Commissioner of Police, I suspect, will have a very difficult time trying to enhance this country’s cybersecurity,” she added.

In addition, Mottley told the meeting that she and her ministers would not be holding meetings to conduct the business of Government without public officers being present.

“This was the Barbados Government that I came into in 1994; this must be the Barbados Government to which we return in 2018,” she said

Mottley continued, “The notion that persons can meet politically in an office to discuss the business of Barbados without public officers cannot happen because we put ourselves at risk of two things,".

“One – allegations of corruption…but two, who is going to follow up? If you are in meetings all day and you don’t have a public officer with you, who is going to follow up because the role of the public officer is to execute the policy and the decisions pertaining to a policy that has been made,” she noted.

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