Dear Editor,
Are mandatory declarations being bandied about and being recommended to become law a violation of one’s fundamental rights and freedoms?
“For those kinds of details to be released to the general public, in my opinion, is quite unnecessary and could be harmful and a possible invasion of the right to privacy,” says the executive director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe.
The normally fearless, thought Marxist, Professor Munroe seems to have begun to be afraid and nervous that sooner or later Andrew Holness and Julian Robinson will make his position and the NIA redundant because they have moved ahead of him and now have a Holness Robinson Integrity Action (HRIA).
Jamaicans, Prime Minister Holness having made his 10 years of declarations — and they are accurate and in keeping with the truth — has obviously raised the bar to a level that many cannot reach and “dem a fret”.
I wonder if Prof is trying to repair the air-conditioning units to cool down the temperature and ease the pressure, frustration, panic, and profuse sweating in these hotter times.
What will be the survival rate and fallout? And don’t forget the courts are there to get injunctions against declarations, eg, they are too invasive and an invasion of privacy a violation of one’s fundamental rights and freedoms. (Chapter 3, paragraph 13, subsections (a) and (c) of the Jamaican Constitution, Fundamental Rights and Freedoms would this be applicable?)
Michael Spence
Liguanea PO, St Andrew
micspen2@hotmail.com
Are mandatory declarations being bandied about and being recommended to become law a violation of one’s fundamental rights and freedoms?
“For those kinds of details to be released to the general public, in my opinion, is quite unnecessary and could be harmful and a possible invasion of the right to privacy,” says the executive director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe.
The normally fearless, thought Marxist, Professor Munroe seems to have begun to be afraid and nervous that sooner or later Andrew Holness and Julian Robinson will make his position and the NIA redundant because they have moved ahead of him and now have a Holness Robinson Integrity Action (HRIA).
Jamaicans, Prime Minister Holness having made his 10 years of declarations — and they are accurate and in keeping with the truth — has obviously raised the bar to a level that many cannot reach and “dem a fret”.
I wonder if Prof is trying to repair the air-conditioning units to cool down the temperature and ease the pressure, frustration, panic, and profuse sweating in these hotter times.
What will be the survival rate and fallout? And don’t forget the courts are there to get injunctions against declarations, eg, they are too invasive and an invasion of privacy a violation of one’s fundamental rights and freedoms. (Chapter 3, paragraph 13, subsections (a) and (c) of the Jamaican Constitution, Fundamental Rights and Freedoms would this be applicable?)
Michael Spence
Liguanea PO, St Andrew
micspen2@hotmail.com