Questions are swirling tonight over the transfer of Police Corporal Jhawn Gamboa to the Ministry of Transport. Allegations have surfaced that suggest the process may have been fixed for Gamboa, whose father is Superintendent Aaron Gamboa.
Best information suggests that Gamboa is the uncle of one of Chester Williams' sons, but today Williams insists the fully qualified Gamboa went through an advertised recruitment process and interview panel:
Chester Williams, CEO - Ministry of Transport
"Mr. Gamboa, from my knowledge, is a very educated person. He's a go-getter. He holds a bachelor's degree in English. He also has an associate's in English. He is currently a corporal in the Belize Police Department and an instructor at the academy here. He has also done extensive training with the military, so he's also a PTI, and a certified PTI, and other training courses. Again, I'm not going to delve too much into the application process. That's for CTO to discuss, because he's the one who sits on panel. I know we have a number of vacancies, and my instructions to the AO was, ensure that we publish the vacancies for people to apply. The vacancies were published, and applicants applied. I instructed the CTO and the AO to put together an interview panel to interview every applicant. They did that, and I now yield to him to explain that process."
Reporter
"But at any point, did you have anything to do with him working for the ministry?"
Chester Williams, CEO - Ministry of Transport
"No."
Reporter
"When it comes back to the topic of Jhawn, one of the complaints that arrived to us was that that's your son's uncle, and you had favoured him."
Chester Williams, CEO - Ministry of Transport
"I will not answer you, but be careful, because I might have to make you prove that."
