I was wondering if anyone had an experience of working as a Single Competent Authority Decision Maker (EO level) dealing with modern slavery ?
Mainly I am interested in how intense the work is, and if is quite an exhausting role.
The other think I am interested in is the nature of the casework, do you have contact with the people you are making the decisions for, or is it just generic casework, reading through documents etc ? It is a wfh role, so I suspect it will be the later ?
While it sounds like a really interesting role, I am worried it will be a bit full on and affect my work life balance.
Any replies would be really appreciated, cheers!
We cannot keep going like this, suffering from the mistakes and errors of judgment of one man. We need an expanded Competent Authority, the way it was envisioned in our Constitution, made up of experts and specialists, who can review the scientific studies, learn from success stories of other nations, put best practices into place, and get the virus under control.
The mistakes made have put in danger our health, our lives, our ability to earn a living.We urgently need a Competent Authority that is truly competent, On the GCI, a Global Covid-19 Index that uses data and analysis to rank governments’ responses to the pandemic, The Bahamas is ranked 184 out of 184 countries. Ranked last. That matters to our reputation. But the real importance is it means the health crisis is worse than it had to be, and the economic crisis is worse than it had to be.
Why is the government only testing Bahamians who have symptoms? Why don’t they test everyone who has had recent contact with a patient who has tested positive? Is it because they don’t have enough tests? If that’s the case, what are they doing to stop asymptomatic transmission? What is their true estimate of case counts in The Bahamas?
The government opened our borders even though they did not have enough testing capacity. The government opened our borders even though they had not trained enough contact tracers. The government opened our borders even though they did not have a strict isolation and quarantine system in place. The government opened our borders even though they had not sufficiently increased our critical care capabilities. The government opened our borders even though they were not prepared to protect and support our frontline workers, from nurses and doctors to police, defence and immigration officers.
This lockdown is only necessary because the government failed to build enough capacity to test and trace to keep up with the spread of the virus. The Prime Minister must be transparent, start answering questions, follow the science, and respect and help Bahamians instead of blaming them.
https://themoviedb.org/ is a site similar to imdb.com without all the crap IMDB tries to shove down your throat when you visit the site. So I frequented themoviedb.org site liking the non-sense approach.
It has an active desi community and all the new Indian movies are updated with good info. So I tired to slowly replace IMDb with this site-- only on the fine the following message is displayed:
>The URL has been blocked as per the instructions of the Competent Government Authority/ in compliance to the orders of Court of Law.
I can't even fathom why anyone would ban a movie info site (but leave IMDb alone?!). Did your ISP also banned this site? What can we do so they will unban this innocent site?
Edit:
The website is aware of this:
>If you’re in India and also use @ACTFibernet as your ISP, you may have noticed that you can’t access TMDb. It seems they’ve blocked us and we can’t figure out why. If this is issue is affecting you, please get in touch with their support. >>https://twitter.com/themoviedb/status/1085566644573749248
Looks like this is only for ACT Fibernet. But even ACT is aware of this issue:
>Hi, we believe that your mentioned grievance has been resolved. Kindly let us know your feedback. For any further assistance, SMS TC HELP to 99459 99459 from your registered number and we will be at your assistance. >>https://twitter.com/ACTFibernet/status/1086880951119069184
But the issue still continues:
>This issue has NOT been resolved. Kindly stop posting false information. Your team also closes the support tickets without resolving the issue or offering any useful information. >>https://twitter.com/NTonthanahal/status/1088521928514580480
Thank you for your collaboration.
@ http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=86935
The amendment was tabled by former minister Phillip Lee, who quit over Brexit last month. In his view, continued participation "makes the process of accessing life-saving new medicines and moving medicines quick and easy". It was vital, he said, to ensure that British citizens continued to get the treatment they needed after leaving the EU.
Specifically, the amendment required the government to make it a "a negotiating objective" to secure an agreement that would allow the United Kingdom to continue to participate fully in the partnership. (https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-07-17/debates/22F367BF-2DAA-4637-B1DD-15FC2FF8A88C/TradeBill)
The point about this fatuous Clause 17 amendment is that membership of the European medicines regulatory network is open only to the national competent authorities in the Member States of the European Economic Area (EEA). (http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/about_us/general/general_content_000671.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac05809f8ed0)
This is a man, a self-declared remainer, who resigned from his post as Justice Minister in order to campaign for a "proper meaningful vote" on Brexit. Yet, unless he was conspiring to invent a back door into the EEA (which seems unlikely https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-berkshire-44521081/philip-lee-resigned-to-give-him-a-say-on-brexit-process), his fog of ignorance absolutely typifies MPs' approach to Brexit – much noise and very little knowledge.
And just in case there is any idea that this ignorance is confined to the Tory ranks, we can see Jonathan Ashworth, Labour MP for Leicester South, declare on Twitter: "Can't understand why Tory govt opposed amendment to keep Britain in the European Medicines Agency – its (sic) vital for patients and NHS - fortunately govt lost the vote just now". (https://twitter.com/JonAshworth/status/1019275796635152384)
If parliament was ever in need of a new motto, at least Mr Ashworth has found it for his fellow MPs, in the first two words of his tweet: "can't understand". For some, though, "won't" might be more appropriate, even if the effect is the same.
Not one of the 305 MPs who voted for the measure appear to have understood that the object of the amendment was unattainable. For instance, Kenneth Clarke could "not understand, given that the White Paper also supports keeping our present arrangements, if we can, by remaining within the European Medicines Agency, is why on e
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