PHILIPSBURG--Joseph Dollison is now the former director of the ROB Department. His last day on the job was Friday, after he had accepted the Executive Council's offer for him to keep some of his job-related benefits in return for relinquishing his function.

In return for vacating his position, Dollison was allowed to keep his government-issued cell phone, pension benefits and full salary until October 2011, when he will turn 58 and enter early retirement. During negotiations, Dollison had also requested the use of his government vehicle, but this was denied.

Well-informed sources disclosed that current Head of Management Support Services Louis Brown had been appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening, Milieu en Infrastructuur (VROMI) after 10-10-10. Brown is a former head of VROM and former head of the Department of Policy and Planning (DPP).

Claudius Buncamper was also informed by the Executive Council on Friday that he would no longer be the Deputy Director of ROB. This notification has no bearing on his function as Head of Maintenance, considering it was Dollison who had appointed Buncamper as his adjunct, not the Executive Council. In fact, Buncamper recently received a promotion when he was appointed Head of the Department of Maintenance and New Projects.

With Dollison accepting the offer of the Executive Council and no punitive action being taken against Buncamper following the publication of the Government Accountants Bureau SOAB report into the issuance of building permits, government has avoided legal proceedings.

Both Buncamper and Dollison had indicated that they were prepared to take the Island Government to court should any disciplinary action be initiated against them based on the SOAB report, which they dismissed as being frivolous and filled with hearsay and innuendos.