{"id":36420,"date":"2013-06-05T23:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=36420"},"modified":"2013-06-05T23:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:10:06","slug":"constitutional-commission-talks-donation-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/constitutional-commission-talks-donation-regulations","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Commission Talks Donation Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/constitutional-commission-talks-donation-regulations-36420.html\/commish\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36421\" title=\"commish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/commish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/commish.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/commish-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Among the ideas presented to the Constitutional Commission earlier this week, the creation of legal framework to regulate donations to the country\u2019s political parties was most notable.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Bahamas Law Students\u2019 Association Barry Griffin told the commission it is now the \u201cinternational norm\u201d to regulate party finances due to \u201cthe influence of political parties and the donors that support those parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe United Kingdom, a country that doesn\u2019t event have a written constitution, does not leave control of this part of the political process to unwritten conventions, rather a detailed legal framework regulates it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my recommendation,\u201d Mr Griffin said, \u201cthat the constitution provide: that donation to registered parties and their members but be regulated, that donations can only be accepted from permissible persons with subsidiary legislation to define permissible persons, and donations form anonymous sources should be banned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Griffin also called for mandatory financial disclosure from members of Parliament, a term limit for the prime minister and fixed term limits for Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin Coleby, President of the Black Law Students Association of Canada, also spoke, calling for a change to constitutional amendment procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach step has to have a referendum and though a constitution by its intrinsic nature is supposed to be difficult to change, difficult to amend, I think that makes it too tedious and too costly to have to set a referendum to change even one word in the constitution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it would be reasonable to allow for the House of Assembly or Senate to amend the constitution rather than calling for a referendum each time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the ideas presented to the Constitutional Commission earlier this week, the creation of legal framework to regulate donations to the country\u2019s political parties was most notable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[530,912],"class_list":["post-36420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-constitutional-commission","tag-donations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}