Claudine Housen, Staff ReporterWESTERN BUREAU:
POSTMASTER GENERAL, Blossom O'Meally-Nelson said that while she did not achieve all her goals she was satisfied with her achievements as head of the island's postal service.
Mrs. O'Meally-Nelson was reflecting on her tenure in that office which she demits today.
"I feel satisfied in a number of areas. I think I have accomplished a lot," she said. "I would have liked to achieve more particularly in the area of legal reform, I would have liked to see the postal reform, I would have liked to see more resources for the postal infrastructure, the complete computerisation of postal counters and for Internet access in post offices."
Mrs. O'Meally-Nelson was speaking at the opening of the state-of-the-art Rose Hall Post Office, in St. James, on Thursday afternoon.
POSITIVE CHANGES
During her presentation, she pointed to a number of positive changes she had seen in her staff and by extension the postal agency due to the successful implementation of programmes such as the "Nuff Respect Campaign".
"The first thing we had when I went to the post office is what I call a 'Nuff Respect Campaign' because we needed to build trust and we needed to build self-image," she said.
Mrs. O'Meally-Nelson reminisced, "When I went to the post office the first thing that came out in The Gleaner was a worker holding a placard, on the front page. It said Mrs. Omeally-Nelson is a cold-blooded murderer ... because we had to cut 300 hundred workers. Then they started putting up posters and cartoons on the loading bay blow them up big and I had to come to work in the morning and when I went on the floor I would only hear fire bun! Fire bun Babylon, down with Babylon!"
However, noting her commitment to the task ahead, Mrs. O'Meally-Nelson expressed pleasure at moving from being called "dat ooman deh" to being affectionately known as "Doc".
In recognition of her final 48 hours in the capacity as Postmaster General Mrs. O'Meally-Nelson, thanked her staff for their support during her tenure.
