By Ray Chickrie – Caribbean News Now contributor – June 12, 2019
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — President Akufo-Addo has embarked on a working visit to five Caribbean nations as part of efforts promoting the “Year of Return.”
Having proclaimed 2019, as the “Year of Return” to Ghana, the 400th anniversary of the commencement of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, when the first 20 West African slaves landed in Jamestown, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the commemoration, according to President Akufo-Addo, “is a statement of our determination that never again should the African peoples permit themselves to be subjected to such dehumanizing conditions, sold into slavery and have their freedoms curtailed in order to build up forcibly countries other than their own and create wealth for the peoples of unknown lands to which they were sent, wealth from whose enjoyment they were largely excluded.” Continue reading
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EGovernment, A Step Towards A More Citizen-Centred Caribbean | By David Jessop
By David Jessop :Sunday | January 19, 2020 | Jamaica Gleaner
SLOW, BUREAUCRATIC AND UNPREDICTABLE SERVICE
Politicians love to promise a better and brighter future. They tend to say little about the day to day experience their citizens have of the services they provide.
In the Caribbean as in other parts of the world what most individuals want from government is the rapid and efficient delivery of everyday resources, if policies and regulations are to mean anything at all.
This applies equally to social services, whether in relation to schools, hospitals or pensions, the supply of utilities, or to matters as normal as renewing a driver’s licence or registering a birth or death. Citizens everywhere want such basic transactions to be straightforward, quick and predictable. They hope their fellow citizens who work for them in the public sector have the ability and tools to deliver what has been promised in modern and efficient way. Continue reading →
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