The Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry is tipped to get an­oth­er Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary this week, af­ter for­mer PS Kurt Mey­ers was trans­ferred re­cent­ly.

Sources yes­ter­day tipped ca­reer Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Jacque­line Charles to as­sume du­ties as the new Ed­u­ca­tion PS.

How­ev­er, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly didn’t im­me­di­ate­ly re­ply to queries on the sit­u­a­tion yes­ter­day.

My­ers’ trans­fer came af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, on Oc­to­ber 2,6 re­ferred to a PS whom he said had writ­ten a min­is­ter say­ing that the pay­ment of pub­lic ser­vants’ back­pay—an­nounced in the Bud­get to be done in De­cem­ber —couldn’t be done un­til May. Row­ley com­plained about pub­lic ser­vants think­ing they could do as they want with­out con­se­quences.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert sub­se­quent­ly said a lack of re­sources was why the Ed­u­ca­tion PS said pay­ment couldn’t be made un­til next May and Fi­nance was work­ing with Ed­u­ca­tion to pro­vide the ad­di­tion­al peo­ple need­ed to man­age the sit­u­a­tion for pay­ment of teach­ers’ back­pay.

Mey­ers re­port­ed­ly went on va­ca­tion leave af­ter his trans­fer. His re­as­sign­ment will be known when he re­sumes work. Mey­ers hasn’t re­spond­ed to queries on his trans­fer.

Charles was at the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (Com­mu­ni­ca­tion) since No­vem­ber 2021 and has been in the pub­lic ser­vice well over 20 years, start­ing from the Trade Min­istry and al­so serv­ing at the Min­istries of Agri­cul­ture and So­cial De­vel­op­ment. Charles was re­placed at the OPM by deputy PS Al­ba­da Beekham, who’s served over 30 years, in­clud­ing at Agri­cul­ture and oth­er di­vi­sions.