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The Public Service Commissioner is appointed by the Queen’s Representative on the advice of the Prime Minister and has collective accountability with Cabinet for the performance of the public service. The Commissioner provides strategic policy advice to Cabinet, sets human resources policy for the Public Service and is the Manager for Heads of Ministries. Our office is open between the hours of 8am and 4pm (GMT-10hrs), Monday to Friday.

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Mimosa Hostilis is a bushy tree that is indigenous in huge parts of South America. The species grows in areas as far north as Mexico, but are most typically discovered in the tropical bogs. You will discover the tree mainly in Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia. The tree can reach up to 8 meters and creates stunning white blossoms and also eco-friendly hulls with seeds.Mimosa Hostilis is also reported as an ideal active ingredient for skincare. It has been claimed that the powdered bark significantly promotes the regeneration of skin tissue. It is often utilized for the treatment of injuries, burns, or exterior ulcers. It has disinfectant, analgesic, and recovery properties.The bark of mimosa hostilis showed to be extremely reliable in the therapy of burns and wounds.These major events have given the powdered bark of Tepescohuite a strong online reputation for skin therapy. Today it is widely readily available in markets, pharmacies, as well as healthy food stores in Mexico as raw material. Due to the fact that the tree is useful in a lot of ways, they do not reduce the trees to harvest its bark. Rather, they dig an opening at the base and also just take about a third of the root system. By doing this the tree makes it through. Within 5 years, the root system is entirely restored and also another round of harvesting can be done. The tree is never ever reduced and gathering can be done indefinitely.It makes an excellent source for sustainably expanded structure materials. The tree satisfies an essential duty in bring back biodiversity in its direct environments. Mimosa Hostilis tree is located growing in the north location of Brazil, as well as located as much north as Mexico, including Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela and also Colombia. It prefers reduced altitudes but can be located growing as high as one-thousand meters.