Calling for answers...
The Royal Gazette's A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign is calling for answers to questions which we believe are in the public's interest.
We're celebrating Sunshine Week — an initiative to raise awareness about open government and freedom of information — for the second year running and to mark the occasion we've compiled a list of questions we have put to Government or other publicly funded bodies without receiving answers:
To Wedco and Government: Who is going to be awarded the contract to run the Dockyard Cement Facility, after the previously announced contract for MaxCem expired at the end of last year?
To Police: What are the figures on incidences of domestic violence?
To Police: Have the three men arrested after last month's Hamilton Parish gang attack been bailed or remanded?
To Police: Is the Police investigation continuing into the Norman Palmer missing body parts case and what was the outcome of that investigation?
To Police: How many trained EMTs or paramedics are there in the Police force?
To the Education Ministry: What are the 2008 GCSE results?
To the Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation: Which 66 non-compliant charities have failed to file their accounts?
To Bermuda Cricket Board: Exactly how much did you get from fraud suspect billionaire Sir Allen Stanford and how was it spent?
To Bermuda Cricket Board: Do you think Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney was right to say that cash should be returned?
To Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney: Following your appointment as Minister, what is your vision for sport in Bermuda?
To Government: Is it true that Works and Engineering staff demolished stonework dating back hundreds of years next to Bailey's Bay Cricket Club, as director of conservation services Jack Ward claimed in an e-mail to the Planning Department in September?
To the Environment Ministry: Does Government intend to introduce longline fishing and if so will it introduce environmental measures to cut down on bycatch?
To the Environment Ministry: Can we have more information on a fish processing and storage facility in the East End in the planning stages?
To the Progressive Labour Party: Are there any circumstances which could lead to a constituency branch manager being removed from their post before the branch elections?
To Premier Ewart Brown: What was the methodology behind Cabinet's decision to cut advertising and subscriptions with The Royal Gazette shortly after the A Right To Know campaign was launched?
To Police: What happened with the investigation into allegations of fraud in National Drug Commission expenditures in 2005/06?
To the Department of Tourism: How much do US consultants Sales Focus get paid for running the North American Tourism Office following the dismissal of long-serving Bermudians?
• What questions do you — as a taxpayer — want answered? Email arighttoknow@royalgazette.bm.