As The Bahamas fights for a sensible Freedom of Information Act, if the government does not provide what is best, the citizens have the right to vote them out at the next election.
Members of the European Union do not have the luxury to vote them out.
This was one of the major reasons for British voters support of Brexit. Fighting a nameless, faceless unelected bureaucracy or nomenklatura as I prefer to call it is something everyone should loathe this day and time.
But don’t take my word for it, watch either of the videos below to see what I mean.
Better still, watch both videos and let us know what you think.
It’s bad enough asking for accountability from our own government, but to have Caricom or the Commonwealth office sending rules and regulations here with Parliament having no authority to ignore them would be, shall we say, preposterous.
Yet that is what EU membership has to deal with.
The EU is one big secret with a helluva price tag.