Adrian Hayes is bowing out

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Parent Category: Oct 2011

Category: Week ending Oct 29th, 2011

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Longstanding civil servant, Adrian Hayes who is the current Clerk of Parliament in Grenada is due to retire early in the New Year.

 This was disclosed by Speaker of the House of Representatives, George Mc Guire during the last sitting of Parliament last week Thursday.

 In paying tribute to the soon-to-be-retired Clerk, the Speaker of the House described him as one who served with “distinction” in the Public Service and was “a source of inspiration to the parliamentary staff”.

 According to Mc Guire, the house will miss “sobering voice” of Hayes whom he said, never for once had he found him to be disengaged, irritable, annoyed, alienated, dispirited or cynical.

 The media was officially informed about Hayes’s retirement from a letter sent to the Houses of Parliament and signed by Hayes himself.

 It said in part: “I wish to inform you that His Excellency, the Governor General, on advice of the Public Service Commission, granted me my entitlement of fifty-five (55) days’ vacation leave from 10th August to 3rd October 2011; and sixty-five (65) working days’ vacation leave from 4th October, 2011 to be followed immediately by my retirement from the Public Service on the Ground of Age.

 “Permit me to seize this opportunity to express my sincere thanks and deepest appreciation to you and your organisation for the kind cooperation extended to the Office of the Houses of Parliament during my term of office as Clerk of Parliament.”

 Mc Guire told parliamentarians that Hayes’ retirement will take effect from January 5, 2012.

 He wished the outgoing Clerk the best of wishes for his retirement and thanked him for his invaluable and highly acclaimed period of service over the past five years to Parliament.

 Mc Guire said that not only is Hayes’ record one of distinction in the Public Service but that Parliament was enriched by his many talents and skills.

 “His profound insights guided us through two successful regional conferences in Grenada in recent times, and he enjoyed the highest regards as Clerk at the table of our regional Parliament”, he told the House.

 Hayes’s employment with the public service began in 1971.

 He first worked as a teacher at the St George’s Anglican School before moving directly into the public service.

 He served in numerous positions within the Service especially in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Protocol Department before assuming the post of Clerk of Parliament.

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