TCI’s new parliament faces lesson in good governance

| 03/01/2013

(CNS): The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and the TCI House of Assembly are hosting a post-election seminar next week, in the Turks and Caicos Islands to help locally elected politicians with parliamentary practices and procedures. The governor’s office said that experienced parliamentarians from other similarly sized UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies will be arriving in the island to discuss these issues with their TCI counterparts at the special forum. The Delegation will be led by the Speaker of one of the world’s oldest parliaments, the 1,000 year old Isle of Man’s Tynwald, Stephen Rodan and Clerk Roger Philips.

“This seminar is an excellent way for the new Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands to reacquaint itself with goodwill, experience and support of the UK’s other overseas territories, crown dependencies and the wider Commonwealth,” said Acting Governor Anya Williams. “This is a practical example of how the UK is continuing to support the on-going development of the TCI. There is genuine international warmth and affection towards the TCI and a real desire to see it once and for all put the previous maladministration truly behind it and become one of the most accountable and transparent democracies in the Caribbean.”

The Isle of white parliamentary experts will be joined by a minister from Gibraltar, Joe Bossano and the three men will meet with the TCI’s speaker of the assembly, its premier and opposition leader as well as other ministers and politicians. Permanent secretaries and members of constitutional bodies, including the integrity commission, will also be participating.

The seminar will cover 2012 Public Finance Management (PFM) Ordinance and Regulations, women in Parliament, ministerial responsibility, the role and functions of ministers, giving direction to ministries, plenary sitting and how to use questions, motions, plenary procedures, the scrutiny of legislation and committee matters including expectations of a public accounts committee and what other scrutiny committees might produce.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Bet that Big Mac was on the list for speaker since he is the longest serving policitician in Cayman…and they cancelled him quick after he joined the ranks of their premier and was ousted. LMAO.

  2. Anonymous says:

    Dear Charles Brown

    Where are "the Caymans" located? Because our nation is called THE CAYMAN ISLANDS.

    • Kool Britannia says:

      The Caymans are located just south of Cuba and comprise of Grand Cayman and the two Lesser Caymans. 

      • Anonymous says:

        Dear Kool Britannia, you must be refering to "The Cayman Islands". There is no map that I am aware of that shows these three Islands as "The Caymans". Get it right, please!!!

        • Kool Britannia says:

          There are many many maps which refer to the Lesser Caymans, which definitionally are part of the Caymans group.  It may be a geopgraphical term, rather than a political one, but a valid term it is nonetheless.  I know it irks some people, but that it their problem.

          • Anonymous says:

            How should we shorten the name of your native land to the point that it irks some others? Eng???

            • Anonymous says:

              If  you insist on "The Cayman Islands", instead of "The Caymans", then all Brits should insist that you use  "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in full, every time you refer to their country.

              Happy typing 🙂

              • Kool Britannia says:

                This Brit will just keep calling them the Caymans, because there is nothing wrong with the phrase.  Anyway, the United Kingdom is "their country" too since the Caymans is not a sovereign state.

        • Anonymous says:

          most of us do not feel much compulsion to avoid shortened versions of place names. get over it.

      • Anonymous says:

        It's called the Cayman Islands which are made up of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac.  We are not called the Lesser Caymans and find it very offending to be called so.

         

        • Anonymous says:

          I can’t stand the twee voting pandering political correctness of the “Sister Islands”. They are the Lesser Caymans on the map on my wall and will always be the Lesser Caymans to me.

  3. Anonymous says:

    "There is genuine international warmth and affection towards TCI etc etc."" Rubbish. The UK, quite rightly, does not want this minor and formerly corrupt part of its embarrassing overseas remnant of "empire" bring any more shame on it than it has already done. Next stop, Cayman.

    Son of Pit Bull.

  4. Charles Brown says:

    Do you think they have time to come over to the Caymans?