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Publishing the Order Paper.
On page 7 of Friday’s St Helena Independent you will find the Order Paper for that day’s session of their Legislative Council:
I have never before seen such a thing in an OT newspaper. Here in
Presumably Anguillian Order Papers are a State Secret!
St. Helena's constitution, traditions and system of governance makes it the most dictatorial and authoritarian of all the inhabited Overseas Territories. The Governor runs everything, the elected representatives are little more than an advisory committee that he barely tolerates, and the island is run like a real colony.
ReplyDeleteIt is thus a measure of how bad things are in Anguilla that from here, St. Helena looks like a model of open government to us.