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Apr 16, 2016 News
In an effort to ensure a thorough and comprehensive Code of Conduct which benefits from the widest
possible input, the Integrity Commission has been asked to assist in the process of acquiring further comments and recommendations.
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has noted that feedback has been received from the Guyana Bar Association and the Guyana Human Rights Association among others.
“We have received some recommendations from two bodies so far, but we have asked the Integrity Commission to help us in the process of getting more submissions, more criticisms, more observations or more additions; so that we can make the Integrity Code of Conduct if I may call it that perhaps one of the best in the world, we want to learn from best practices from other countries,”said Prime Minister Nagamootoo.
The Prime Minister encourages citizen and stakeholder’s participation in the process leading up to the final version of the Code which is intended to promote professional, exemplary and responsible conduct by senior government officials.
He said that it is meant to engender and reinforce public confidence in the manner in which senior government officials perform their duties in service to the people.
The Prime Minister explained that he recently commissioned a sub-committee comprising the Governance Department together with representatives from the Guyana Legal Aid Committee, the body dealing with professional conduct and discipline of practitioners’ in the legal profession and also some representatives from the Ministry of Natural Resources.
“The Code of Conduct emanated from the time when Minister Trotman was Minister of Governance. He is chairing the sub-committee to receive and review all recommendations, and when that process is through the code will then be given to us for us to decide whether it should be merged with the integrity legislation visions or it should be taken to parliament as legislation by itself.”
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo restated that “whatever the best practice would be around the Caribbean and the rest of the Commonwealth in particular we would want to follow those practices.”
The Code of Conduct is based on ten principles – Accountability, Dignity, Diligence, Duty, Honour, Integrity, Loyalty, Objectivity, Responsibility and Transparency – and is a Coalition Government manifesto promise.
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