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Division Of Personnel Fails Again; Out Of 876, Only 9 Jobs Posted On Website

ST. CROIX -- Governor Kenneth Mapp caused a stir of excitement by announcing that there were 876 funded government jobs waiting to be filled. He encouraged residents and diasporas to send in their resumes. In fact, the announcement was a major part of the governor's second State of the Territory Address. “The Government of the Virgin Islands is now hiring teachers, police officers, firefighters, EMTs, correction officers, DPNR enforcement officers, revenue agents, school lunch workers, environmental enforcement officers, doctors, nurses, administrative personnel and recreation leaders to name a few. These 876 funded vacant positions are in addition to the 590 new employees we have hired since January 5, 2015,” the governor said at the Earl B. Ottley Legislature on January 25. But following the governor's lofty proclamation, a Consortium story making known that new jobs had come online within the GVI, exposed a major problem: the Division of Personnel was woefully unprepared n...