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From thebahamasweekly.com - Bahamian Politics
Statement By Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs Having read the response of an unidentified official for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Ministry's website (Tribune 5th March), it is clear that the Ministry is lost on the subject of its website development. The Ministry's official offers as the reason that the website is not up to date the fact that they are in the process of transferring to the Government's website platform. It would be a grave mistake for the Ministry to switch its stand-alone website over to being a part of the government's website in the absence of a substantial investment in and upgrade of the present platform of the Bahamas Government's website. The government's website is inadequate because it cannot handle the existing traffic demands. It is slow. The Government's website is down fifty percent of the time and is not properly updated or maintained. This was the reason when I was the Minister; the Ministry chose not to join the government's website. Those problems have still not been resolved. The issue of the platform is one thing but the real issue is the fact that the Ministry's website is content deficient, when it should be content driven. The ‘reason’ that the official offered is an excuse that is almost one year old. The Ministry continues to do a disservice to the country by continuing, for over one year now, to talk about upgrading and transferring a service when there is little evidence to suggest that the Ministry gives a hoot about the public's right to know what, if anything, the Ministry is doing for the Bahamian people. © Copyright 2010 by thebahamasweekly.com - |
