The Barrow administration’s hundred day honeymoon will expire in May, and that’s why next Friday, at the first business session of the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister will present a number of constitutional amendments. They include term limits for the Prime Minister, a mechanism to recall area representatives before their term is over, expansion of the Senate so that government no longer has the majority, and strengthening the Freedom of Information Act to make for fewer secret contracts, and allow citizens – if there are enough of them to trigger a referendum. It’s an important devolution of power and Prime Minister Barrow today told Jacqueline Godwin that much of it is based on lessons learned from the pitfalls of the previous administration.
Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
”These are the sorts of amendments that will deepen our democracy and guard against any return of the corruption that we saw overtaking us especially during the last five year. These are the proposals for constitutional amendments that will help to advance us as a society that will assist with the whole monitoring process, with the whole oversight process especially where the senate is concerned. So these are proposal of which we are extremely proud. We are very, very happy we are bringing them forward and bringing them forward so quickly. We had promised that we would take these to the House within the first one hundred days and that is what we are doing.”
