{"id":8834,"date":"2015-05-13T07:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2015-05-13T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:22:11","slug":"risk-consultancy-on-rowley-suspension-disregard-for-rule-of-law-in-tt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8834","title":{"rendered":"Disregard for rule of law in T&#038;T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><B><em>Risk consultancy on Rowley suspension<\/em><\/B><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=kamla-persad-bissessar\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamla2.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' class='alignleft' alt='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' \/><\/a>A global consultancy specialising in political and security risks has warned United Kingdom company BG Energy Holdings Group that the suspension of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley from Parliament highlights a lack of reliable state administration and widespread disregard for the rule of law in Trinidad and Tobago.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn its &#8220;Country Risk Forecast and Travel Security Online&#8221; report to BG Energy in Reading, England, dated May 11, the risk consultancy group said Rowley&#8217;s suspension &#8220;highlights weaknesses of democratic institutions&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/article\/20150512\/LOCAL\/150519901\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><BIG><B><em>Transparency: No fairness in PNM leader&#8217;s suspension<\/em><\/B><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p>The local arm of Transparency International &#8220;Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTTI)&#8221; has said it is gravely concerned over the House of Representatives&#8217; move on May 6 to approve the motion to suspend Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued yesterday, TTTI said by directly suspending Rowley, Speaker of the House Wade Mark bypassed the Privileges Committee and deprived the process of &#8220;all fairness and legitimacy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The practice has always been for the Speaker to refer disciplinary matters which may result in suspension to the Committee of Privileges. This allows for due process in two respects. It permits matters to be further investigated by the Committee so that the substance of the complaint can be properly delineated. Secondly, it affords natural justice to the parties affected as they are able to defend themselves before the Committee,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/article\/20150512\/LOCAL\/150519902\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk consultancy on Rowley suspension A global consultancy specialising in political and security risks has warned United Kingdom company BG Energy Holdings Group that the suspension of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley from Parliament highlights a lack of reliable state administration and widespread disregard for the rule of law in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,1,186,178,566,396,30,142],"tags":[85,610,144,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-opposition-party","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-express","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}