Trinidad and Tobago became an independent country in 1962 and a republic in 1976, in which the people, through their representatives, were supposed to control their affairs.
Such a political arrangement sounded enticing since it promised to place the countryâs destiny in the hands of people they knew, rather than foreigners (white) whom they did not know.
Over the years, citizensâ rule morphed into a Cabinet culture controlled by one or two persons, who demand: âNo damn dog bark.â When one minister tendered his resignation to protest this one-manism, he was removed immediately from the Cabinet and later from a place in the Government. He had not learned to say, âYes, Your Majesty,â in an accommodating manner.
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JCC fact-checks Faris on procurement law
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi
President of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry Fazir Khan fact-checked the Attorney General and called for further clarification of aspects of the new procurement legislation in a release sent to the media on Wedensday.
The release was sent days after a press conference at the Attorney General’s office on St Vincent Street, Port of Spain where the AG explained parts of the legislation and called for public bodies to speak “facts,” as well as calling on media houses to do fact-checking whenever quoting public figures.
Khan first agreed with the AG that the Office of the Procurement Regulator still has oversight of the disposal of public property, but said contrary to the AG’s statement that government had aggressively pursued the implementation of the regulation, the former president had not appointed the regulator until 2018.