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Posted: Tuesday 10 April, 2018 at 4:20 PM

Nevis’ Premier promises early Integrity in Public Life legislation

By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com
    CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, Apr. 10.2018 – THE long-awaited Integrity in Public Life Legislation (IPL) for Nevis, will be brought to fruition well in advance of the timeframe that the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) had indicated.
     
    The CCM party during the elections campaign promised Nevisians that the legislation will come on stream in June this year.
     
    However, Premier Brantley told reporters when questioned at his recent press conference that they will activate the legislation well in advance of June timeframe.  
     
    “We would operationalize this legislation long before June,” he said.
     
    The CCM party has come in for criticism from the Nevis Reformation Party and other civil society organizations, over its slow movement in having the legislation brought before Nevis Island Assembly.
     
    During an interview with WINN FM news last year, Brantley explained then that there were issues with the scope of the legislation that was put forward.
     
    He pointed out that the bill was extensive in nature, in that it applied to Permanent Secretaries and heads of department.
     
    “… so we had to go back to the drawing board in relation to that and so that ended up leading to considerable delay. There was of course legislation passed in St. Kitts at the federal level and there was a question of how those two would interact,” he told the radio station.
     
    He contends that the administration will not use the entire six months window that was proposed to consider the extent of the legislation.
     
    Instead, he revealed that the government is currently putting measures in place to have the Integrity Commission installed.
     
    The Commission will be tasked with reviewing the legislation and have it report on the best fit.
     
    The body will be comprised of a Chairman, who will be appointed by the Deputy Governor General. That person, according to Brantley, must be a retired judge or a lawyer with 15 years of experience.
     
    One representative will be put forward by the Premier and another by the Leader of the Opposition.
     
    The Premier is hoping to have the process concluded by early this month.

     

     

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