Grenada’s Prime Minister, Tillman Thomas, has announced to a meeting of the Media Workers Association of Grenada (MWAG) that his Government will move ahead to introduce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), public sector integrity legislation, and an ombudsman. It will also work with the sector to establish a common code of practice and ethics for media.
At least 80 other countries have FOIA laws (called PATI in Bermuda err because we’re different) , including the Caribbean countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is also currently undertaking public consultation on a FOIA law.
And in Bermuda, hello PATI, anyone home?
After years of silence, back in November Attorney General Kim Wilson revealed that Government lawyers had begun drafting a freedom of information law for Bermuda as a “priority”. Bermudians should demand that the draft law undergo full public consultation – with transparency on all input – before it is amended and sent to the House.
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