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Just a couple of days after the Cabinet announced the handing over of three secretaries; the social media went into a tizzy over a leaked letter allegedly written by MoEA Minister Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk to the Prime Minister on 24th October 2014 over the Enertia issue. The letter showed Enertia …
Read More »Opposition says reinstate secretaries while Govt says don’t politicize issue
The Opposition party has called on the government to reinstate the three surrendered government secretaries while the RCSC carries out an investigation, effectively adding a political twist to a bureaucratic drama so far. It has also accused the government of not following due process and surrendering the secretaries in a …
Read More »Three Secretaries surrendered to RCSC and Committee of Secretaries discontinued
The government, in a press release issued on yesterday morning, announced its decision to hand over three Government Secretaries to the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC), and also discontinue the Committee of Secretaries (CoS). The Secretaries are the Cabinet Secretary, Dasho Penden Wangchuk, Ministry of Economic Affairs Secretary, Dasho Sonam …
Read More »The letter that got three secretaries to surrender
The Bhutanese is in possession of the letter sent by the Foreign Secretary to the Indian Ambassador on 2nd December 2014. The letter was sent on the instructions of the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) to protest against some news articles in Enertia and allegations of corruption in the hydropower sector. …
Read More »How the CoS did itself in with four meetings in two months
The Cabinet decision to surrender three Secretaries and discontinue the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) is mainly based on the four meetings held by the CoS between October 2 and November 27, which discussed two articles published by ENERTIA. The issue first came up through a letter from the Ministry of …
Read More »Banks still issuing threats to publish pictures of loan defaulters even after NA resolution says not to do so
The National Assembly on Monday, 1st December 2014 endorsed and passed the Human Rights Committee (HRC) report that recommended that Financial Institutions (FIs) should not publish the pictures of loan defaulters in the media. It says that the final decision to publish such pictures or not should be left to …
Read More »Samtse police says 100% sure that maids death is not rape and murder
Asenior Royal Bhutan Police official in Samtse said that he was ‘100 percent sure’ that the death of the maid was not caused by ‘rape and murder’ as alleged by some Indian media outlets. He said that when the police reached the spot the maid was found lying in the …
Read More »Govt looking into explosives sector after safety, transparency and conflict of interest issues dog sole private dealer Rabdhuen
Concerned with an Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) report against Rabdhuen, the sole private company dealing in explosives, and also a separate Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) report, the cabinet is looking into the possibility of the government taking over the explosives sector. The cabinet already met and discussed the issue a …
Read More »PDP’s much vaunted Code of Conduct for Ministers and MPs still in suspended animation
This is also in the backdrop of concerns over the performance of some of its MPs and some government decisions The PDP government came to power in July 2013 with a mandate of change, and one of the first things the party did was to come up with an …
Read More »Govt says that SMC is one cure to the ills in the RAA mining audit report
In response to questions on the government’s reaction to the recent Royal Audit Authority (RAA) Performance Audit report on Bhutan’s mining sector, the MoEA minister Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk said that the report on the surface was a good professional job done by the RAA and he had conveyed his compliments …
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