When Victoreen Romney-Varlack was appointed registrar of interests in 2008, she worked full time for a month setting up shop as keeper of the Register of Interests, a log meant to help hold legislators accountable by requiring them to state their financial interests such as directorships, employment, clients, sponsorships, gifts received and land and share holdings.
Once she had the register established,however, Ms. Romney-Varlack began working only three days a week, and then last year when her contract was renegotiated, she was given a reduced salary and reduced her working days to just two a week, she told legislators during the Standing Finance Committee deliberations earlier this month.
Legislators questioning the reasoning behind her paycut were told it was inaction by lawmakers that led to it.
After legislators passed the Registrar of Interests Act in 2006, they next needed to create a Standing Select Committee to help bring the act into force, but this hasn’t been done because the House of Assembly’s Standing Orders need to be updated, Ms. Romney-Varlack is recorded as saying in the report on the deliberations of the SFC. These factors have left her post with a smaller workload than had been anticipated under the act, she explained.
See the March 13, 2014 edition for full coverage.
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