BASSETERRE St. Kitts, April 8th 2011 - Political Leader Mr. Lindsay Grant announced over the weekend , at his party’s 46 th annual convention, that People’s Action Movement’s and Opposition Parliamentarians will be tabling two bills at an upcoming sitting of parliament.
The Bills that are expected to be tabled are the the Integrity in Public Life Act, which was first tabled by the St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party-led administration in 1996, and the Freedom of Information Act.
“Opposition parliamentarians can table bills in parliament. It is a very rare activity in parliaments around the region because of the tremendous cost associated with it’s preparation . However our party feels that these bills are sufficiently important to the people of this federation to warrant the time, effort and great expense that is needed to table such bills,” said Opposition MP Hon. Eugene Hamilton.
In an interview with Journalist Juni Liburd on Tuesday, Hamilton reiterated the party's intentions with regards to the bills and further stated that they will be tabled sometime within the next 2-3 sittings of parliament.
Despite many calls from all sectors for the government to introduce the Integrity in Public Life Bill to be made law, Prime Minister, Dr. Denzil Douglas indicated that currently the bill does not form part that, of the Labour Party’s administration’s legislative agenda.
On his weekly programme “Ask the PM” Prime Minister Douglas stated ““At the moment it is not, as far as I am concerned, part of the legislative agenda of this administration at this particular time. When it becomes part of the legislative agenda, the people of St. Kitts and Nevis will be engaged on the matter.”
MP Hamilton indicated that the country should be concerned about the Prime Minister;s attitude towards the introduction of the Integrity and Freedom of Information Act bills.
“We all as taxpaying citizens and residents of this country should be very concerned about how the Prime Minister seems to be reluctant in passing Integrity in Public life and Freedom of Information bills. His reluctance can easily suggest that he and his government may have much to hide and as a result are not very interested in shining light on the operations of government and ministers,” said MP Hamilton
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