Stephen Dean made his whole career off Urban Renewal ....... he was a sergeant in 2002 when Perry started Urban Renewal ...... now he is ACP ........... He cannot complain about retiring.

I do not see any issue here. These men have had long successful careers on the force but they are old and it is time, maybe past time for them to retire and enjoy their remaining years left. The old makes way for the new, with younger officers filling the void. Too many civil servants hang on too denying the youth their opportunity.

Who do you blame for that????? ........ Revise the complex PSC retirement policy.

We should have a strict mandatory retirement age for all civil servants, one that can only be extended for very few individuals only under exceptional circumstances, perhaps only on the approval of cabinet. This will help with the unemployment situation in the country as well.

@DonAnthony, I couldn't agree with you more.

Just the tip of the iceberg. Not only must these useless over-compensated dinosaurs be removed from law enforcement, but they must not be offered another civil servant job elsewhere in government. Going forward, all law enforcement officers should be required to take all of their annual leave/vacation benefits in the year earned with absolutely no carry forward of such benefits to succeeding years and no payment in lieu. The enormous army of brown suits must be systematically reduced as soon as possible to less than half the current number. The present system for retaining incompetent and/or incapable law enforcement officers no matter what, must be reformed at the earliest possible time.

Indeed, the army of khaki was one the of PLP's many last election parting gifts!

Stop the photoshop filters. Especially the "Sharpen" filters. These pics look like cartoons. The Seymour photo looks like its been through the "Cartoonify" filter. Tribune needs a new photoshop person.

Actually it makes a lot of sense. The ranks are clogged up in the senior officers. The last promotion could have been use for 4 different promotion. THose fellas gratuity alone wil break the treasury aahahah

No doubt it is political. they wanted Reckley and those two got caught in the mix.
They will probably give Mr: Seymour a big position later.

There is a right way and a wrong way to do everything. they have given many
years of service and they deserved respect. Calling them in and telling them
that immediately they should go on leave is the wrong way.

No Games may be in his glory now but it will come to an end. Spite and malice
goes around and it will come around.

There is a just God and his justice will prevail . Look for it ,It is coming..

I wonder why would they let everybody else go. . .BUT TO DO SO TO MR RECKLEY IS VICTIMIZATION? Since the PLP have a problem with him going. . .tell us how to deal with him. . .because , like others throughout the Public services, HE HAS REACHED HIS MAXIMUM!! What the PLP expect to be done with him. . .keep him on like Baultron Bethell? Who was 82 years old and still in public services.

I am not a fan of Baltron Bethell but he was a consultant on contract. That is totally different from being a civil servant.You mixing up apples with oranges to score a cheap political point.Both parties hire consultants and take care of their people in the civil service.

That is why we are in the $3 billion pension hole now with the Civil Service with very little productivity to show for it in 50 years ........... Politicians hiring PEPs, top heavy management, no succession planning, graft & bribery, NO PSC accountability for crooked employees, Unions out of order, 40% hired on minimum wages,slow/bad service etc. ........... It's not a professionally run service at all.

Maybe Marvin wants to promote his fish baggers and water borders. But he too (Marvin Dames) will be sent into early retirement on the next election. And his legacy will be that there were more police-involved shootings during his first year as Minister of National Security than in other time in the history of the Bahamas. And there were more complaints of innocent persons being beaten and tortured. And, of course, the Frank Smith case will stand out like a wet feather in his cap and the outcome of the Reckley and Gibson will be more decoration.

Civil servants are well aware that when they arrive at a certain amount of years of service and depending on their age, that they could be asked to retire or prepare to retire any day, some agencies 25 YOS some 30 YOS. So I do not see anything political about this but some of the commenters here seek to make it that way.

Not allowing the process to take place in a timely manner clogs up the system, stifles growth and upward mobility and causes well meaning, well trained and well qualified younger ones to leave pre-maturely for other opportunities.

I don't see anything sinister about the moves. These officers have all been very busy and have done well. Time is time though. There is life after these jobs and all of us just have to prepare well for it including, succession planning which 99.99% of these places do not have and I'm forced to believe it is by design. You wonder why when Bahamians go to college they dread coming back home.