Author: Denyse Ealedona

Sixteen new officers have joined the department this year and few others last year taking up positions under short term contracts and on probationary positions within a number of wings and branches in the department. HR Manager Lucy Kasu said, the new staff have come on board to fill critical positions within various branches. She…

Final Year Journalism students Matilda Ginio and  Esther Gahane said  they felt very privileged to have been engaged in their internship with Department of Personnel Management. The girls who did 13 weeks of Public Relations practice with the Public Service Information Centre branch in the Secretary’s Office said they completely enjoyed their work experience with…

An internal Housing Committee has been set up to coordinate and oversee the DPM Internal staff home ownership scheme and advise the Executive Management on home ownership strategies relating to the Housing program at Duran farm.  The Housing Committee made up of 12 staff from various wings convened its first meeting on the 16th of…

The WoG Gender Equity & Social Inclusion (GESI) team has completed 2 weeks of GESI sensitization and mainstreaming training for managers and senior Immigration officers at APEC HAUS from the 1st -10th February. This consisted of four batches with 20 officers in each batch. Senior GESI officer Ms. Amelia Raka said, they decided to conduct…

DPM has commenced the retirement exercise for public servants who have reached the compulsory retirement age of 65 or wish to retire on medical grounds. This follows the allocation of K200m for the retirement exercise for the year 2022 in the national budget. Director National Agencies Ms. Roselyn Wrakuavia in an interview has confirmed that…

In this article we share with you all the life of a former senior DPM staff who served the department for 31 years before becoming the Secretary of Department of Labour & Industrial Relations. The late Mr. Ravia Vagi’s life was celebrated at his funeral service which was well attended by departmental heads, staff from…

By Journalism student Esther Gahane A National Taskforce team has been set up to look into the 29 resolutions agreed upon during the Public Service Reforms and Cost Control Workshop held in October 2020. The task force comprises of 6 Departmental Heads and chaired by Acting Deputy Secretary Policy & Reforms Mr. Ellison Kalimet on…