July 17, 2012Dear Sir,Carla Hayward has been on administrative leave from her job at the Government Archives for almost ten months. When Mr Donald Scott was asked if she was still being paid her $144,000 per annum salary, Mr Scott said he wouldn’t discuss internal administrative matters. Something is wrong here. Mr Scott and Ms Hayward are both civil servants. Civil servants are paid by the Bermuda Government which is in place because they were voted in by the people. The Bermuda Government works for the people, and therefore do both Mr Scott and Ms Hayward, so surely the people have every right to know if Ms Hayward is still being paid since we, the people, pay her salary.Now, for something completely different. A member of Government (I believe it was Marc Bean) was recently crowing (pardon the pun) on how Government was successfully eradicating the feral chicken problem. I would like to ask him if he would like to take a trip to St David’s where we are about to name the chicken as our national bird. St David’s Road is littered with the bodies of chickens who have met their maker under the wheels of speeding cars and bikes. There are also hordes of them clucking and crowing around Clear Water Beach. I doubt if you can go anywhere in St David’s without hearing the clucking of chickens and the crowing of roosters. Every time my MP comes around, she always asks me if I have any problems, and every time I say, “feral chickens and litter”. Is it really a lot to ask for this to be dealt with?JC SIMPSONSt David’s