DPSU elects new executive

Public Officers have elected a new executive to run the affairs of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) for the next two years. The thirteen-member executive was elected earlier today at the union’s 3rd Biennial Delegates Conference.

In an apparent show of confidence in the outgoing executive, the President Mervin Anthony, Vice President Merium Lewis, Treasurer Kervin Dangleben and Assistant Treasurer Joseph Peters were all returned unopposed. Glenda Casstle, Recording Secretary and Charmaine Brumant, Assistant Secretary were also elected unopposed. The other committee members include Lyndell Williams, Steven Larocque, Steve Joseph, Bernard Bontif, Monelle Latouche and Sherlyn Theodore. Thomas Letang, whose position was not up for elections, will continue to serve as the General Secretary.

Executive members pledged their commitment to perform their duties and to work to advance and maintain the principles and established policies of the union. Madonna Hartfort, President of the Grenada Public Workers Union and keynote speaker at the DPSU’s Biennial Conference exhorted delegates and public officers to “work very closely and in unity with [their] new executive.”

The first order of business for Letang and his new executive will be to rekindle the interests of the 2,500 members in the union and mobilize support from the rank and file for DPSU’s programmes and initiatives. With the top brass of the union undergoing very little overhauling and much of the fallout from government’s stabilization and economic adjustment programme still at stake, public officers are hoping that at least some of the outstanding issues will be resolved in their favour.