Showing posts with label Identity Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Identity Card. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Following Parliament Becomes More Interesting

You can now watch the business being done in our National Assembly live and direct. The other nice thing is that there is the agenda on the right. And it's scrollable. For instance the PNQ today is on the Metro Express. Plus the PM will answer questions on an anti-defection bill, electoral reforms and VIP lounge facilities. Ministers will be put questions on the water sector reform, reform of the universal pension, Air Asia and the biometric id card to name just a few.

Good.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Resources For The December 10 Elections

Who will you vote for? Well it will have to be three of these candidates.

Where will you vote? Enter your NIC# and the Electoral Commissioner's office will tell you where that will be. That's specially useful if it's the first time you're voting.

Who's the better cake-cutter? That is who divides the national cake more reasonably. I've looked at the HBS data for the past 25 years and it all boils down to who is the Finance Minister. Lutchmeenaraidoo -- at least in the data analysed -- has been good. So have Bunwaree and Bheenick. Sithanen has been a reverse Robin Hood -- takes from the poor to give to rich -- each time he's been MoF. So he's to be avoided at all costs.

Who bakes the bigger cake? Have looked at this data recently and what I've found is that Lutchmeenaraidoo baked a bigger one than the FMs who came after him; the Sithanen reforms generated the smallest cake and that Bheenick and Bunwaree hatched a cake which was slightly bigger than what Sithanen cooked in his first mandate. More on this soon.

Of course we don't want a second republic, party lists, more MPs and double candidacies.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Lalit Beefs Up YouTube Presence

Want a big bowl of fresh air? Just listen to Cindy Clelie.



When you're done you don't want to miss Lindsey Collen's explanation of the dangers of the biometric ID card.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Meet Amanda Jones

You might have heard about her: she is the former employee of an international school who had refused that her fingerprints be used to mark attendance. And that the Data Protection Commissioner subsequently concluded -- after carrying out an inquiry -- that the Data Protection Act had been breached.

This interesting case will likely have a bearing on the very controversial biometric ID card.

Friday, November 2, 2012

What's The Deal With The New ID Cards?

Lalit wants the contract with Singapore cancelled. Which is what the MMM has asked. Hmm, I missed these episodes. So this new thingy is going to cost a billion rupees but there are some privacy vs. efficiency issues. Here's what I found.

P.S. The poll on municipal elections doesn't seem to be keeping the votes for long. Dunno why. Sorry about that.