In recent weeks Barbadians have been greeted with the good news our credit rating for local debt was upgraded by two credit rating agencies S&P and CariCRIS. In recent weeks Barbadians have been greeted with the bad news that violent and gun crime appear to be on the increase. The question we must answer is whether the solutions to our
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At this time, people tend to reflect on the twelvemonth past and to contemplate the coming one. Today, I propose to attempt the first. From my perspective, 2018 has been dominated by issues of governance and by their relation to the prescriptions of our supreme law. A review of my columns for the year corroborates this opinion. I had even
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Submitted by Rickford Burke, President, Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) corrected submission December 24, 2018 Hon. Dr. Bartland Scotland, M.P. Speaker of the National Assembly Republic of Guyana Parliament Buildings Brickdam, Georgetown Guyana Dear Honorable Speaker: Article 156.3 of the Guyana constitution states that: “A member of the National Assembly elected on a list shall cease to be a
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(With apologies to EM Forster) In all my years of weekly musing, more than eighteen (18) now, I have scarcely ever written of my personal experiences during the week prior; out of both a desire not to bore my readers overmuch with details of a life of mostly studied contemplation and a natural bashful reluctance on my part to expose
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The followings documents were received from an anonymous source. The blogmaster is of the view there is enough to warrant sharing with the public to elicit comment – David, blogmaster
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Submitted by Grenville Phillips II Under this act, anyone who revealed genuine cases of corruption, with incontrovertible evidence, could be found guilty of defamation and punished accordingly. However, the Act protects politicians if they talked about it in parliament* I will say it again, Grenville needs a legal advisor, and not only to serve as AG in any unlikely
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“..that the people (including, one should add, the government) should be ruled by the law and obey it and (2) that the law should be such that people will be able (and, one should add, willing) to be guided by it.” – Geoffrey de Q. Walker, The rule of law: foundation of constitutional democracy, (1st Ed., 1988). “The protection of the
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