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10/11/2012

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10/11/2012

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09/11/2012

Attached is an invitation to you to attend CRF's public discussion on Saturday 10th November 2012 at City Hall, Port of Spain. As we all know much has been said about the "Section 34" issue but alot more remains to be said and known. As such our discussion will focus on the theme tackling the root of the problem: Section 34, The Constitution and the Conning of Parliament.

We trust that you will place this event on your calendar for that day and that it will be given priority.

16/10/2012

The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago
13 – 15 St Clair Avenue
St Clair

Dear Prime Minister,

We refer to our letter of September 25, 2012 (enclosed for ease of reference). Regretfully, we are yet to receive the courtesy of even an acknowledgement of receipt.

The Section 34 fiasco as it has been so adequately labeled continues to be a source of grave concern and pain for many of our citizens. Section 34 and the State of Emergency (SoE) of 2011 collectively represent an unforgettable, unforgivable and unprecedented assault on our Constitution, our Parliament and our Democracy.

We refer to page 8 of your manifesto 2010 titled PILLAR 6: Good Governance-People Participation

"The focus on this area will be on (3) key elements for the purpose of ensuring transparency, accountability, participation and effective representation as essential principles of good governance. These are:
· strengthening existing institutions
· enhancing democracy
· strengthening ex*****on and delivery capacity

We will enhance democracy by strengthening existing institutions and by establishing new institutions or appropriate infrastructure to support accountability, transparency, consultation, participation and consensus-building and more meaningful representation. We will emphasise restructuring of government delivery systems to make government more responsive to the needs of the people.

We recognise that the people are sovereign and that the government is the servant of the people. We will support the separation of powers among key institutions in the society such as Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary and we will strengthen the autonomy of institutions, which have been systematically undermined over time, to support a democratic governance system. We will promote a climate of national dialogue within a framework of civility and consensus building. We will initiate a process of consultation to rewrite the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The objective of constitution reform will be to establish a framework for good, responsive governance and to nurture and build a participatory culture and to strengthen democracy. This will move us away from the culture of maximum leadership and develop a politics of inclusion, rather than the present system of winner takes all."

That Prime Minister is but a snapshot of the social contract into which you entered with all of the citizens of Trinidad & Tobago when you received a constitutional mandate on May 24, 2010 to govern for five years. From Reshmi Ramnarine, the ongoing tenure of Mr. Jack Warner, the continued attacks on our media, the attempts to intimidate citizens insistent on exercising their constitutional rights, the ill conceived SoE to the Section 34 fiasco, you and your administration seem to be in breach of contract.

We reiterate our call for you to:

· immediately remove Mr. Jack Warner from all Cabinet, Ministerial and National Security Council posts
· immediately remove Attorney General Anand Ramlogan
· seek a fresh mandate from the citizens of Trinidad & Tobago

FIXIN T&T

11/10/2012

Following on Jack Warner's attempt to supress crime statistics being made available to the media and the public, now this

Following on Jack Warner's attempt to suppress crime statistics being made available to the media and the public, now this
experience with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After a very frustrating experience contacting the Ministry through the the phone numbers and extensions listed in the phone directory, that experience was further exacerbated by the response to my request for copies of the MOU'
s signed between India and Trinidad and Tobago during the state visit by PM Persad-Bissessar's to that country.
Such information, according the un-named spokesperson, can only be obtained by request to the Office of the Prime Minister under the Freedom of Information Act.
What could be so sensitive about this information that it is subjected to the FIA process? Why is the Ministry unable to provide this information upon a simple request by a citizen of the Republic?

04/10/2012

To all Trinbagonians that embrace Trinidad and Tobago as their homeland, I recommend that you read this article very carefully. It speaks volumes as to the road we are yet to travel if we are to build a nation here grounded in a shared sens
e of patriotism without one group, whether by force or stealth, seeking to dominate the other. To better understand what is written here, we must all get farmiliar with the HINDUTVA agenda. Here, in T&T, we must not surrender the ideal of building a society in which all our people can flourish, even in the face of great provocation such as contained in accompanying article.......Yours in OneAccord.

Hindu Human Rights in Trinidad & Tobago: Excerpts from HAF's 2011 Report Introduction | History/Background | Status of Human Rights | Violations of Law | Re

04/10/2012

Marion O' Callaghan:"As “diversity”, “multiculturalism” is hammered into our consciousness, we know well that behind those words lurk superiority, separateness, ferocious competition."
Thanks Marion......I trust that more people will come to see and understand the duplicity that is at play here.
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03/10/2012

On a positive note, the AG has an excellent record as a lawyer. His qualities as an illusionist are less established and he must put the anti-PNM corruption gimmicks aside and zero in on his responsibility for Section 34.