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Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander revealed his 2023 policing plan this week, setting a goal to keep the murder count under 100. Fernander’s policing plan features six priorities: revolutionizing community policing to prevent crime; taking a zero-tolerance approach to minor and major crimes; restructuring internal processes to impact crime prevention strategies; partnering with law enforcement
Even as the attorney general has blocked permanent secretaries from appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), PAC Chairman Michael Pintard, leader of the opposition, said yesterday Parliament’s most powerful committee is pursuing “multiple angles” in its quest to hold government to account on its expenditure of public monies. Pintard said the PAC is writing
Opposition Leader Michael Pintard yesterday accused Attorney General Ryan Pinder of trying to “stifle public accountability and transparency” and overturn a ruling by the former speaker of the House of Assembly regarding the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). “The attorney general and the prime minister would be keenly aware that the current ruling from the speaker’s
Attorney General Ryan Pinder has advised permanent secretaries not to appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Assembly as called upon by PAC Chairman Michael Pintard, leader of the opposition. Pintard has requested “copies of any and all contracts entered into by or on behalf of [ministries] since September 21, 2021”.
Noting that the evolution of tax transparency and international and domestic tax reform and reporting is “only becoming more imposing, more intimidating and more confusing”, Attorney General Ryan Pinder said yesterday The Bahamas can no longer be a non-reciprocal participant in the Common Reporting Standard, which calls on jurisdictions to obtain information from their financial