REDACTED 2 - IC Petrojam Investigation - Recruitment and Parties October 18, 2019 final

Page 42 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 Yolande Ramharrack’s tenure as the Human Resource Development and Administration Manager. By way of a hearing held on September 5, 2018, the following, inter alia , was disclosed by Mrs. Roselee Scott-Heron, former Human Resource Development and Administration Manager: “ Q: I would like to spend a little time now to talk about the recruitment process. Could you basically outline the procedures for when you are going to recruit candidates for positions within Petrojam briefly, the steps you would take. A: Two steps we would take: first of all, the line manager would come to you with a request and of course, you know we are governed by the Ministry of Finance; the Ministry of Finance would have worked out how many persons would have to be in the organisation. So we are refilling a vacancy, most times you can have an oral discussion with someone at the ministry followed up with an e-mail confirming that you can go ahead. It depends on the level of the position that you are doing, but for all positions we do there is a procedure in terms of the Ministry of Finance. Once it is within the approved head count from the Ministry of Finance and the person has resigned, we could refill without going there but we would have to ensure that in our reporting to the Ministry of Finance we indicate that this position could be a replacement for the position that would have existed. Q: So you can’t increase the numbers, you can only fill those approved.