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Within weeks the Persons with Disability Bill could become law,Cheap Jerseys Tag, paving the way for the rights of persons living with disabilities to be acknowledged on a national scale.This is according to Minister of Health,Cheap MLB Jerseys, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who was appointed Chairman of a Special Select Committee to further deliberate on the Bill before it becomes law. According to the Minister it was only last Thursday that the national Assembly approved his appointment as overseer of the committee.“I am convening with immediacy meetings of the Select Committee and I don’t think in Parliament we have too many differences surrounding the Bill,” Minister Ramsammy disclosed yesterday.He is optimistic that the Special Select Committee will be able to complete its work within the next two months allowing the Bill to evolve into an Act soon after.The Bill was introduced several years ago by the Minister himself but was only read in Parliament for the first time last November.And it has been quite a journey for the Bill. Minister Ramsammy had revealed to this newspaper that although the Bill was listed among the priority legislations early last year it had to be previously modified before reaching parliament.The legislation was submitted to Cabinet some time prior but some major concerns were highlighted at that level. The initial draft legislation had called for every disabled person to become the responsibility of the state; that each is provided with housing and will no longer be required to pay bills.“I also had major concerns about the draft legislation because we were trying to create a First World legislation in a developing country,NBA Jerseys China,” the Minister had noted.Although failing to reveal the specific concerns that were highlighted,Wholesale Authentic NHL Jerseys, Minister Ramsammy had disclosed that it was based on the concerns raised at the level of Cabinet that the draft legislation was adjusted and returned to Cabinet, making it ready for tabling before parliament.In its current state, once passed, the Act will cater to the provision of certain rights for persons with disabilities including the promotion, protection and full equal enjoyment of those rights.It is also intended to facilitate the enforcement of the rights and eliminate discrimination on the basis of disability even as it serves to provide for the welfare and rehabilitation for such persons.In addition,Buy Cheap Jerseys, the legislation will provide for the registration of persons with disabilities through the already established National Commission on Disabilities.Administrative Manager of the National Disability Commission,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Ms Beverly Pile, had some months ago commented on the much needed Act, stressing that “We definitely hope that something will be done urgently.” Pile had disclosed to this newspaper that the Commission which is located at 49 Croal Street, Georgetown, has been the nerve-centre to which all concerns of disabled persons are voiced. According to her “they (persons with disability) keep asking about the Bill. All we can say is yes we are working on it…that the Minister is doing everything possible.”However, such an advisory only serves to make Persons with Disabilities and those within the Disabled People’s Organisations to become more despondent and frustrated, Pile related.Currently there is nothing that can be done on their behalf, as there is nothing documented to give disabled persons any special rights, she added. |
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