Government now has dozens of civil servants working in communications and public relations. It has also invested huge sums in building websites.
Yet, to read most statements from Government Ministers, given in their official capacity, one must visit the PLP website. These official statements do not appear on the Government website or CITV.
This blurring of the Official with the Political is wrong.
There should be an Government policy enforcing that all official statements, announcements/news releases, and events must be indexed on the homepage of the Government website. Public access to information applies not only to the stuff they want to hide; it also ensures that obviously public info may easily be found.
They just passed a law that any one locally who publishes something about Bermuda must submit it to a central repository. You’d have thought that Government statements deserved the same public access and preservation.
