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– Censorship high on revamped agendaWith censorship high on its agenda, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Monday relaunched a reinvigorated Family Commission at Cara Lodge, Quamina Street, Georgetown.Headed by Member of Parliament,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Reverend Kwame Gilbert, the Commission is poised to institute necessary and possible censorship actions to anything it believes can be injurious or harmful to family life.The Commission’s performance will in fact be backed by the age-old Cinematograph and Video Act of 1912, as well as new a piece of legislation which makes provision for censorship to be brought to any video production, printed material or any other item that can be considered harmful.Chairman, Reverend Kwame Gilbert,Cheap Soccer Jerseys For Sale, and Minister of Human Services, Ms Jennifer Webster,Wholesale Jerseys, (fourth and fifth from left respectively) in the company of eight members of the Commission.According to Reverend Gilbert, “We are going to be looking at the old piece of legislation to see where it can be amended to allow us as a Commission to provide censorship to the things that we believe are harmful to family values in this nation.”Among the areas likely to gain the attention of the Commission are: any video programmes, television programmes, music, published materials or any other thing or activity that the Commission deems as damaging to the society.“We intend to be very vocal and active as a Commission on things that we believe are contributing to the eroding standards and values of our society…We believe that advocacy and involvement cut across every stratum; government and non-government agencies and every place that we as a Commission can have a voice that addresses anything that in some way affects family life and family values in our country,” Rev. Gilbert insisted.The Family Commission was first established in 1998 but was overshadowed by a number of other Commissions which have over the years helped to promote family life in Guyana. The relaunched Commission was however appointed by Cabinet on July 1, 2012, and has met about eight times since with a view of deciding its specific mandate in response to the needs of the society.“As we move forward we may find it necessary to make some amendments and tweak some of the things that we are doing to ensure that it is relevant and impactful in addressing the needs of families in our country,” Rev. Gilbert disclosed.Moreover, the Commission will be guided by the four broad thematic areas of advocacy, public education,China Jerseys, partnership building, as well as monitoring and evaluation.In the area of advocacy, members of the Commission will examine existing legislation with the hope of recommending reforms that could aid and support family life and the work of the revamped Commission.Part of what it will seek to do over the coming weeks would be to examine some of the existing legislation with a view of determining if they can support, in critical ways, family life in Guyana. The Commission will also be tasked with looking at how legislation could be unfavourable to family life.“As a Commission we are going to make proposals for amendments where we find legislation may be inimical and harmful to family life,” said Reverend Gilbert as he revealed that the newly installed body will also look to disseminate to the public the tenets of a Family Code.The Family Code has already been approved by Cabinet and, according to Rev. Gilbert, it is imperative that the public becomes familiarised with this feature which he believes could lend to the improvement of the institution of the family.As it relates to Public Education, the Commission is set to develop a directory with existing resource agencies, and efforts will be made to ensure that that directory is available so that persons could know the agencies that are involved in family work. This move, Reverend Gilbert said, is premised on the need to publicise what such agencies are doing so as to ensure that persons know where to go in times of need.“We want to ensure that there is no situation where people need help and they don’t know where to go as it relates to family life. That is a necessary element of the public education process. People need to know where to go; what numbers to call; who they can contact.”Added to this, he disclosed that the Commission will be working on advertising events to highlight the scope of its work in order to prevent ambiguity and confusion as to what it is mandated to do.“We cannot solve all of the problems and it would be very necessary for us to be very clear on what are the problems that we can solve in our capacity,” he asserted.Moreover, in its attempt to build partnership, the Commission is expected to network with Ministries, other government bodies, Non-Governmental Organisations, faith-based Organisations and other stakeholders. This collaboration, Rev. Gilbert said, is inevitable given the nature of the problems that are seen in the society which cannot be fixed in the same context in which they are created.“It has to be fixed outside of that in the sense that we have to create a mind-set change or a paradigm shift and therefore it requires a multi-stakeholder or a multi-sectoral approach to fix the problems.”Among the membership of the Commission are: Ms. Trenetta Scott, Secretary; Ms. Aleema Nasir, Ms. Bibi Haseena Ganni,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Mr. Cyril Belgrave, Mr. Charles Quintin, Dr Vindhya Persaud, Father Terrence Montrose, Pandit Rabindra Persaud,China Jerseys, Ms. Pamela Nauth, Reverend Patrick Findlay, Ms. Sheran Harper, Sister Rajkumari Singh, Pastor Terry Thomas and Ms. Yvonne Stephenson.The Commission was glowingly endorsed by Father Francis Alleyne who anticipates that it would foster conversations through many channels and stakeholders tasked with dealing with concerns of the family. The life of the Commission is set to span one year.
