In todays Trinidad Guardian President tells MPs to follow code of conduct President Anthony Carmona yesterday reminded the country’s political parties of their commitment, under the recently signed Code of Ethical Political Conduct to stop “candidates and their supporters from engaging in character assassination, spreading of false rumours and gossip, and ensuring that persons are true to their words.” In his Republic Day address to the nation yesterday evening, President Carmona said the Cude, which was developed by a committee of civil society representatives chaired by Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris, “is an outward display of our burgeoning political maturity.” “It may do the Members of Parliament well to recall this hallowed objective in the cut and thrust of their Parliamentary discourse,” he said. The President said T&T is now fully aware that violence in one part of the globe touches us all. “In the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Panam Flight 103, Anthony Selwyn Swan of Point Fortin, on his way back to university, perished. In the Westgate incident in Kenya just over a year ago, Ravi Ramrattan, a Presidential Medal winner from Cunupia, and a growing light of hope, also perished. “But for timely circumstance, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago would have been on the doomed Malaysian Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine. We must therefore not lull ourselves into a false sense of security thinking that it cannot happen here. Lest we forget, it can and it has,” he said. [ Click the link to read this article in full guardian.co.tt/news/2014-09-24/president-tells-mps-follow-code-conduct ]
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:05:01 +0000