Major (Ret’d) Anthony Anderson, the newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), is dismissing suggestions that he was handpicked for the role and did not apply during the initial recruitment exercise.

Anderson, in a Jamaica Information Service interview aired on Wednesday, said he applied for the position after seeing the advertised requirements and subsequently underwent a lengthy interview process.

“I applied based on the requirements that were published in the newspaper…I believe it was, and online. And then I was interviewed; maybe an hour and three-quarters interview, so it was quite an interesting thing. But it wasn’t that problematic for me because it's really talking about things I know,” he said.