Surely, with the residents of just about every country around the world concerned with the matter corruption within governments and the protection of perceived citizens rights, the matter of a desire to improve the design of the government structure, the “democratic ideal”, should be brought to the fore. Efforts at creating new regulations alone withing the present construct cannot be representative of this redesign imperative; the ease with which violations occur only bear this out.
Nothing short of a complete over haul to the elective process can be expected to bring about the changes required. Again the desire has to be for a change in the process of “electing” the officials to determine how the tax payers purse is spent. The very first item in the process is legitimizing through a registration process, the clubs that operate as private entities that decide and promote the candidates for public office. They should at least be registered as NGO’s with an open book policy of internal financing.
Look who is in the news again:
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack can’t escape the prying eyes of the British Press
And the Federales investigating too!
@David
The deposit of funds to an account in the US is potentially a grave error, charges if any may could be laid there. If I was in his shoes I would stick close to home.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/headline-Integrity-Commission-attempts-to-deal-with-conflict-issues-7013.html
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/headline-Government-adopts-new-%27no-purchase-order%2C-no-payment%27-policy-7020.html
Surely, with the residents of just about every country around the world concerned with the matter corruption within governments and the protection of perceived citizens rights, the matter of a desire to improve the design of the government structure, the “democratic ideal”, should be brought to the fore. Efforts at creating new regulations alone withing the present construct cannot be representative of this redesign imperative; the ease with which violations occur only bear this out.
Nothing short of a complete over haul to the elective process can be expected to bring about the changes required. Again the desire has to be for a change in the process of “electing” the officials to determine how the tax payers purse is spent. The very first item in the process is legitimizing through a registration process, the clubs that operate as private entities that decide and promote the candidates for public office. They should at least be registered as NGO’s with an open book policy of internal financing.
@Baffy
Pipe dream, check the respective party manifestos.
David
Maybe you can dig up the Iceland story … Pipe dreams do come true
Corruption in government is a new phenomenon. Lol
Look who is in the news again:
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack can’t escape the prying eyes of the British Press
And the Federales investigating too!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10704290/Qatar-World-Cup-2022-investigation-former-Fifa-vice-president-Jack-Warner-and-family-paid-millions.html
@Sargeant
But will he ever be charged.
David,
Do you know what happened in the House tonight prompting the sudden break in the Leader of the Opposition’s presentation?
@Prodigal Son
No but we are all ears.
@David
The deposit of funds to an account in the US is potentially a grave error, charges if any may could be laid there. If I was in his shoes I would stick close to home.
Is there an extradition treaty arangement betwern T&T and the USA?
Yes there is, and T&T has carried out extraditions to the USA.