{"id":72288,"date":"2012-08-30T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=72288"},"modified":"2012-08-31T18:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:34:55","slug":"dennis-joseph-weekly-and-a-president-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-and-a-president-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: And a president disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67106\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-67106\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some may say he never appeared in the first place and was more like a recluse unwilling or too scared to be in the limelight especially on matters related to national governance.\u00a0 Others say he was in this for his retirement money and the perks involved and became an expert at avoidance strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The point is\u00a0 President Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool came into this office in 2003 unanimously approved by all members of\u00a0 the House of Assembly and was hailed as a super-brain with loads of legal experience and a heavyweight\u00a0 scholastic\u00a0 background.\u00a0 The nation took notice and much was expected from him to whom so much had been\u00a0 given.\u00a0 It did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2003, as General Manager and director\u00a0 of Q95 I was called to the President\u2019s office at Morne Bruce where in a discussion with him he informed me that with the backing of the cabinet of ministers he had taken up the task of\u00a0 looking into\u00a0 the Constitution for possible upgrading to meet modern expectations and wanted the help of the media in sensitizing the public about this.\u00a0 PM Pierre Charles died soon after\u00a0 and it never happened and that was the first and last I heard of it.\u00a0\u00a0 I thought then that the presidency should be of sterner stuff and I still think so now.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is left to the dubious \u201cconsultation\u201d process between the Prime Minister and the Opposition\u00a0 Leader with no one clear as to what \u201cconsultation\u201d should really mean and with the PM having the final say anyway.\u00a0 This leads to gift giving to a favoured one or to someone who pays for\u00a0 it or is owed something and gets this as settlement or consultation and whose loyalty as president\u00a0 is to the ones who gave him the stuff.\u00a0 We the people who pay for all benefits and all the perks are not allowed to have a say in who gets appointed.<\/p>\n<p>The President is the Head of State which is the highest position in the governance system yet is not accountable to the people just to the one who appointed him namely the Prime Minister.\u00a0 His role is to legitimize the State and perform as directed by the Constitution and to do all possible to protect\u00a0 constitutional law. He however cannot be required to perform any functions without his consent and he cannot be charged in any criminal or civil matter while in office. The only qualification for all of this responsibility and\u00a0 benefits is age-no less than 40- and that he must be a citizen who resided in Waitikubuli for five years prior to his nomination.\u00a0 Though the wording refers to a man and so far we have had only male presidents it is accepted that either gender could serve.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the necessary qualifications anybody including the Chinese or Haitian naturalized or economic citizens could be nominated and the idea that we must have a very educated or experienced person is just our flavour and nothing more.\u00a0 The\u00a0 president has little to do but cut some ribbons, draw a salary, live in his own home or the new 27 million dollar palace in luxury with police protection 24\/7, take salutes, patronize functions, have everybody stand when he enters\u00a0 and be called \u201cExcellency.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In his singular most important function to do with the integrity of the general elections process the President has proven to be impotent.<\/p>\n<p>It is this that has caused we the people to question whether we need a president in the present form or should we move to the \u2018next level?\u2019\u00a0 We should.<\/p>\n<p>We were the second small island\u00a0 in the Eastern Caribbean after Grenada to seek political independence and the newness of it caused all sorts of seismic shifts and what some saw as opportunity to get rid of the Labour Party more specifically Patrick John.\u00a0 Yet at the Independence conference in London when it was clear that nothing would stop the movement and\u00a0 with all sides present, Opposition Leader Eugenia Charles surprised the meeting with a suggestion that the presidency should be an executive position with full executive powers and this found general agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0 Patrick John, the father of our independence,\u00a0 was of the view that with all the negative and\u00a0 false propaganda spread against the Independence movement and\u00a0 the general low regard at that time for such presidencies called \u201cbanana republics\u201d in the third world and knowing from his experiences and that of E O Leblanc before him that the idea of a poor man from Lagon becoming the president of DA could send the upper class and wealthy into nuclear territory and taking into account the way poor people tended to believe that\u00a0 the wealthy know best, we the people may not be ready and it would be best to go to it in stages.\u00a0 He was of the view that perhaps this was a clever trap set by Charles to nurture the unrest which she had warned the British government about should independence come under PJ.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who want to think that I am just throwing shots at the late Dame, truth is truth and my book to be released on May 29th 2013 will be of truth no matter who feels hurt on any side including myself.\u00a0\u00a0 PJ\u2019s view prevailed with the British parliament\u00a0 and though we are a republic on paper we are still a half and half piece of work.\u00a0 It may be time to totally fulfill that mandate of a full presidential system after nearly 34 years and the \u201cnext level\u201d crowd should be ready and willing to take us there.<\/p>\n<p>However we must live with what we have and use it in the most beneficial way possible.\u00a0 What to do with this highly paid official?<\/p>\n<p>We have come through a rough time of years of bickering, quarrels and frankly disrespect of President Liverpool so now we must put our national foot down and demand that the next president\u00a0 be a strict upholder of the laws and defender of the Constitution.\u00a0 He must be the spirit of the nation embodying national values.\u00a0 All the education in the world or the number of desk positions held prior to appointment does not a president make.\u00a0 We should now know that.<\/p>\n<p>The president should be like a national public relations person whose word is respected at home and abroad who is willing to take on promotions uplifting the people in the arts. In education, in promotion of our national aspirations, public\u00a0 library and museum expansions and frequent visits to rural areas to be among the people so that he does not become a Town house president.\u00a0 He must always land on the side of law and not political romance.<\/p>\n<p>The disappearance of Nicholas Liverpool amid\u00a0 a cloud of distrust and controversy is not deserving for such a man of special worth and should not happen again.\u00a0 To avoid this the incoming president should make up his mind to be, well\u00a0 different and yes indeed like in modern day parlance \u201cpresidentilicious\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some may say he never appeared in the first place and was more like a recluse unwilling or too scared to be in the limelight especially on matters related to national governance.\u00a0 Others say he was in this for his&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-dennis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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