THE proposal to have an open competition for all public appointments and appointing ministerial selection committees to shortlist candidates and conduct interviews has strong merits (“Reforming the public appointment process” by Ding Jo-Ann, Sunday Star, June 9; online at bit.ly/star_reform).
This is so especially given the past, often unsatisfactory, record of the Executive or ministers’ unfettered power to appoint and remove appointees.
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