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[Willi]

Its really ridiculous to give an MP 3 jobs, ie area rep, lawmaker and potential Govt executive....when the foundation is area rep and most of them have no connection to the areas...

Dem fi open up the Executive to make only the PM, deputy PM and MOF be the ONLY ones who Have to sit in parliament. The rest should be free to be filled by civil society.

[Exile]

That too has obvious flaws for then you have folks in parliament making decisions for the people who they do not represent. I think 3 Senators are part of the Cabinet, not so? Maybe the concept on 'Independent' Senators should be explored further where the GG under the advice of 'group of experts' or PM and Opp leader will appoint such people to get more non-partisan decision making.

[Reggaedoc]

Actually Willi, that is a good idea, and one that I have always been advocating. Why should you have to be elected to be a MOG. Missing out on most of the most talented people.

[Muadib]

wheh dem have US$1 Mil house innah di garrison wid 1 acre lot ?.. how dem muss entatain ?

talk sense nuh..

cho..

[Willi]

Parliament?

Execs are not in parliament in my scenario. Nobody voted for Geithner in the US and look at his job.

[Willi]

MPs would continue to sit in parliament like now.

[Islandman]

True. Maybe the advantages might outweigh the disadvantages though. Hard to say for sure.

For example if your vote for MP is separate from your vote for governing party then I think more people would consider voting for a good 3rd party or independent candidate as MP.

Once the govt controls all the purse strings though, they would still have the power to favor projects in the constituencies where they control or are likely to win.

There are no easy fixes by tinkering with the electoral process, that is for sure. In the end the people will still have to do the hard work of keeping the pressure on officials and hold them accountable.

[Exile]

They have the checks and balances. We don't unless we take some of X's suggestions into consideration. The executive agencies were moving in the right direction...

[Willi]

How it worse dan what obtains now and arent the 3 compulsory top exec position in the Cabinet enuff parliamantary oversight? If not, we can have regular parliamentary reports say every quarter where the Ministers have to address parliament or a committee of parliamant and face grilling.

Parliament will have the right to force the PM to recall any Minister...

[Sir X]

Ben thats what I mean by faught talkers , this kinda of colonial elitist corrupt thinking is the problem , you and your ilk/jllp/pnp have no concept of thinking outside or around the box, your minset is set in stone.

Have you ever head of gentrification ? Bill clinton pionered this in harlem , when harlem was a crack house , he encouraged the rich and wealthy to move into harlem a poor neighbourhood with an offer for tax breaks , now we have lawyers ,mds and professionals moving into harlem where the price of real estate is out of reach for middle class people.

I heard a developer was proposing the same for down town kingston, but why only down town kingston?Why havent it been grabbed by anyone from government,past or present ?

Lets continue along the same path , the faught talking will get us to our objective....faught.No amount of lip service, Jeep , IMF developmental ,Portai/Holness/JLP/PNP programmes will get us anywhere until we deal with corruption.

How the mirror look on Mike Henry cieling?

[1of1]

mi si people leff dem good profession fi join politics, so suppen mus inna it, so a likkle relocation a nuh nutten

[1of1]

mek sense

[Hortical]

Its a start. Drop a dime pon one a dem politicians who a try skirt the residential requirement nuh. It boils down to people who live in an area have more at stake than an "outsider". A brethren who got accepted into a police department haffi go change his residency before dem accept him into the policy academy, due to that town's residency requirements. Mandating that cops, teachers, firemen and other town work workers living in the city maintains and builds the middle-class.

[Assasin]

I am split on this as without any other incentives you may loose good people who just want to work there as well.

I am hovever agree that we need people with vested interest in these community.

[Baddaz]

i agree with you maudib... wow, imagine that... the mps need to be more in touch with their constituency... spend more time within the constituency... have a full functioning office there and work in their constituency... that is more practical...