Too much sexual harassment in civil service
While the Public Service Management Act 2024 has been hailed as a significant improvement in civil service governance, local commentator Kishma Penn believes there is a pressing issue within the system – unchecked sexual harassment.
During the Speak Out BVI show, Penn praised the Act as a “step in the right direction” but criticised its failure to address sexual harassment directly.
Penn described the Act as an overdue update to outdated governance rules, commending its clarity on job roles, accountability, and codes of conduct. “It’s a step in the right direction in terms of accountability,” she said.
However, she expressed grave concerns about the pervasive issue of sexual harassment in the civil service, calling it an “unchecked and unmentioned” problem. “Too many department heads [are] complicit in dealing with the issue. Too many heads of sections are complicit… and too many supervisors are the ones who are, in fact, the persons who prey on the employees and put them in those very uncomfortable positions,” Penn stated.
According to her, victims often face retaliation rather than support when they report harassment. “If the employee is even brave enough to say something, they are the first, the same head of section, the same department heads… who will pull the old boys’ club colours and protect the perpetrator,” she explained. This culture, she claimed, has derailed many promising careers and made repeat victims of those who complained.
“Some were fired, some were pushed out, and you know what happened to a lot of others? They get stagnated,” Penn said. “‘Oh, don’t worry, sis. Yeah, you didn’t put out? Don’t worry’, you’ll never get another increment. You’ll never get another position. You’ll never get another promotion. And when the time comes to leave the service, you’ll get a little bit of money.”
Penn called on the Deputy Governor to revisit the legislation, urging for explicit measures against sexual harassment to be included. “Don’t just leave it up to common law,” she said. “Put something that is clearly defined so men in the civil service who act inappropriately know that sexual harassment will no longer be tolerated.”
The Public Service Management Act was designed to modernise governance within the civil service, addressing issues like conflict of interest and accountability. However, Penn insists that its lack of explicit provisions for dealing with harassment leaves room for continued and unchecked abuse of vulnerable persons in the civil service.
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Some of those disgusting men were the reason women had to change jobs SMH…One day a woman will get tired and “Lorena Bobbit” one of them
OH YES,IT IS TIME TO START DISHING OUT SOME LORENA BOBBIT
CUT ON THE MEN ON THE ISLAND. 2 or 3 get the cut they will stop pawing up and sexually abusing women on the work sites. Chop it up like you chopping up minced onion.
Let me help you all out here smh as a professional gyalist some these dudes don’t get it. They get high salary jobs some got drugs money and believe money is the only key to their conquest. These females in the work place aint impressed by that what opens them up to suggestive behavior is being WELL GROOMED SMELLING GOOD and the rule of HANDSOMENESS. Lets face it a lot of you all got money but you ugly and mouth stink to bomboclaath. Skin gross your touch gross like the one few years back that wanted to suck up the employee TT gross mouth stink touch awful but got a lot of bread.
I been saying that same thing all them man up in women face with stinking mouth, and a lot of girls still letting them ride them anything for the money some of them even having sex with out a bath, I write a song them girl pu**y is washer to clean up them dirty c**k man
Its not our fault that the ladies looking good
Keep up the stupidness. The ladies look good? One of these days one of the ladies is going to set you up and you will end up with a stump where your penis use to be. You men need to stay out of women’s faces with your smelly dirty selves and your mouths smelling like it just came out of 10 different rank vajay jays. Tooth paste, mouth wash and breath mints is cheap.
Women(married and unmarried), YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE BY YOUR INDECENT DRESSING, MADE IN HELL MAKEUP AND COSMETIC, FAKE EYE LASHES THAT POINTS LIKE ARROWS AND FAKE HAIR THAT IS NOT YOURS.
REPENT THEREFORE AND ACCEPT THE WAY YOUR CREATOR MADE YOU. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO HELL FOR THIS. IN THE LAST DAYS YOU WILL BE JUDGED FOR ALL THE MEN WHOM YOU TEMPTED BY THESE ABOMINATION.
THAT GOES FOR ALL PROFESSED CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
On my work place, there is one that is married and continue to bring his bs to me. I already warned him that if he continue with the nonsense, I am going to arrange with someone to cut his penis off and send his penis in a zip lock bag to his wife. The message would be keep your fast hand horn dog under control.
Agreed, it is time for an example to be set. Cut off their private parts and start sending their cut off private parts to their wives, woman or who they are dealing with. Enough is damn enough. A person will deal with things like this until they snap.
Ms. Penn stated. ” Don’t just leave it up to common law,” she said. “Put something that is clearly defined so [*men]in the civil service who act inappropriately know that sexual harassment will no longer be tolerated.”
If Ms.Penn is not aware…That harrassment goes both ways Just like…
These old man on too much Viagra!
Too much sexual harassment in Civil Service.
By implication then,their is an acceptable amount.
Please let us know how much sexual harassment in the workplace of Civil Service is enough and does not cross the line to become ” too much “
Some of the Civil service departments is WHORE HOUSES ON STEROIDS. You have female workers that have already being passed around like loose female dogs in heat.They are making things bad for the females who want to just go to work, do their job and go home and not be involved in the nastiness. You got to weed out the WH**ES FROM CIVIL SERVICES. Yeah, DIRTY WH**ES!!!!
lets name them customs, imm,…poli….
So the young woman is implying that men are the culprits, aggressors, but let me be clear just incase this is a smoke screen to protect her interest…Women are quite also the aggressor here. Many are turning out young girls with extravagant gifts, and promises. So while it is good to sound relevant, because of the times we are living in….sodomites, Sodom and Gomorrah, who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Side chics. It’s a cultural thing
Not I, I am not being any man’s side chick.I have to much dignity, class and respect for myself as a woman.
You wives and girlfriends need to start keeping your men in line and tell them to stop harassing women on their work sites. Cause things is about to get real. Women is tired of being harassed on their jobs by men. I work in a restaurant and the only reason I did not pour a pot of hot boiling water over the one that rub himself up against me is because I did not want to lose my job or go to jail.
Women(married and unmarried), YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE BY YOUR INDECENT DRESSING, MADE IN HELL MAKEUP AND COSMETIC, FAKE EYE LASHES THAT POINTS LIKE ARROWS AND FAKE HAIR THAT IS NOT YOURS.
REPENT THEREFORE AND ACCEPT THE WAY YOUR CREATOR MADE YOU. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO HELL FOR THIS. IN THE LAST DAYS YOU WILL BE JUDGED FOR ALL THE MEN WHOM YOU TEMPTED BY THESE ABOMINATION.
THAT GOES FOR ALL PROFESSED CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
This is not just in the workplace, it is a practice in this territory. It’s not just the older men, these young guys are doing it too. Some men with wife or main woman are so aggressive, you would think they didn’t have someone they were involved with. Their behavior comes off as predatory and desperate. Imagine someone coming up in your ear, violating your personal space – sometimes even grabbing you without your consent, and telling you what vile sexual things they want to do with you. S***! Did I ask you?! Am I interested in you?! Get out of my face with your cesspool (some of you) mouth, and your annoying, unwarranted, unnecessary attention. WARNING: Eh…. keep your hands to yourself or learn to live without them!
If the wives who is walking around with their noses stuck up in the air start getting their fast hands husbands ping pings in a gift wrap box? Tell your husbands to learn how to keep their grubby hands to themselves.
The men need to be protected from these suggestive woman also, no wonder in the middle east the woman had to cover their face, these woman supposedly have husbands and boyfriend’s, and they leave home in some short dresses which is almost transparent showing lace bikinis and lips and face painted suggestively and stepping in high heels that cause their waist to gyrate when walking and you know our perfect African shape ladies have big bottom shaking, the men deserve to get councilling from mental sexual harassment by these ladies, sometimes I say to myself, these ladies are academics, why do they treat themselves as tokenism on the job so they can’t advance further, been held back by their concern for modeling and domination of their work place as a beauty queen or attention getter, I wonder how some of them perform on the jobs on them short skirts as though it’s a striptease on the job, a time there was a fire in an office and upon rescuing the ladies from smoke inhalation, they sat flat on the ground gasping for air on oblivion of their legs open and skirt short, the men had to take off their shirt and throw it between the ladies legs to cover the exposure of their private parts as the traffic flows by with spectators steering at the incident , tell me when woman will understand, for example been puncture at the side of the road long finger nails,high heels and short skirt won’t allow you to change tire.the woman got come professional on the job and equal not in strength because god made the man stronger but the woman mightier because they give life to all men, time woman respect their status.
What women wear is an indication of how they feel about themselves (agreed that some need to do better), but it does not give men the right to violate their space because of how they dress; same thing for men.
Women(married and unmarried), YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE BY YOUR INDECENT DRESSING, MADE IN HELL MAKEUP AND COSMETIC, FAKE EYE LASHES THAT POINTS LIKE ARROWS AND FAKE HAIR THAT IS NOT YOURS.
REPENT THEREFORE AND ACCEPT THE WAY YOUR CREATOR MADE YOU. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO HELL FOR THIS. IN THE LAST DAYS YOU WILL BE JUDGED FOR ALL THE MEN WHOM YOU TEMPTED BY THESE ABOMINATION.
THAT GOES FOR ALL PROFESSED CHRISTIAN WOMEN.