Not interested, comfortable with the status quo.
T&T's big push for unique constitutional changes
ANALYSIS RICKEY SINGH
RICKEY SINGH
Sunday, August 10, 2014
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PERSAD-BISSESSAR...tabled Bill for debate which, among other provisions, restricts term limits for a prime minister and parliamentarians.
TRINIDAD and Tobago's House of Representatives tomorrow begins debate on a unique Bill for constitutional changes in parliamentary representation which gives new meaning to multiparty electoral democracy.
That's the assurance given last Monday by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, a former attorney general of the twin-island republic, when she tabled a pace-setting Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2014 that, among other provisions, restricts term limits for a prime minister as well as parliamentarians.
Additionally, her signature piece of legislation would also give -- for the first time in the history of parliamentary democracy in the entire English-speaking Caribbean -- the right of voters in any defined constituency to recall parliamentary representatives outside scheduled national elections.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...anges_17325135
T&T's big push for unique constitutional changes
ANALYSIS RICKEY SINGH
RICKEY SINGH
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Print this page Email A Friend!
PERSAD-BISSESSAR...tabled Bill for debate which, among other provisions, restricts term limits for a prime minister and parliamentarians.
TRINIDAD and Tobago's House of Representatives tomorrow begins debate on a unique Bill for constitutional changes in parliamentary representation which gives new meaning to multiparty electoral democracy.
That's the assurance given last Monday by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, a former attorney general of the twin-island republic, when she tabled a pace-setting Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2014 that, among other provisions, restricts term limits for a prime minister as well as parliamentarians.
Additionally, her signature piece of legislation would also give -- for the first time in the history of parliamentary democracy in the entire English-speaking Caribbean -- the right of voters in any defined constituency to recall parliamentary representatives outside scheduled national elections.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...anges_17325135
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