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Global Witness says Zimbabwe's diamond industry needs root and branch reform with transparency an essential focus

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Before joining DFAIT, he worked at the Department of Finance, including from 1983 - 1990 with the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he served as Project Director, Financial Institutions Reform Project, and chaired the Inter-Departmental Legislative Review Committee, which guided the development of the 1992 reforms that overhauled the federal financial institutions statutes (the Bank Act, the Insurance Companies Act, the Trust and Loan Companies Act and the Cooperative Credit Associations Act).

The dramatic reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and legislative branches of government.

After meeting with his conference on Wednesday evening, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos dismissed the ethics deal, saying any talks of ethics reforms should also include financial disclosures of the executive branch, and should also include domestic partners.

«There's no will for reform in the executive branch either if its dealing with issues like this, like the procurement bill,» Senator DeFrancisco countered.

On Tuesday, Dec. 13 the USPS announced that it would delay a final decision on the closure of the Lackawanna Branch, along with the William Street mail - processing facility and Broadway - Fillmore Branch, until May to allow U.S. Senators additional time to work on postal reform legislation that could possibly find other cost saving measures that may protect local postal branches.

Trying to make his reality less gloomy than all that — and, to be fair, surely with the genuine intent of reducing misbehavior in all branches of government — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included a package of ethics reform proposals in the agenda he laid out in a series of State of the State speeches around the state this week.

Derrell Bradford is the executive vice president of 50CAN: The 50 - State Campaign for Achievement Now, and the executive director of its New York branch, NYCAN, with more than fourteen years working in education reform policy and advocacy.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Prop. 32 has already gained backing from Romero, who as head of the Golden State branch of centrist Democrat reform outfit Democrats for Education Reform, has already proven to be an even more thornier foe for the NEA and AFT (along with state Democrat party leaders who are servile to the unreform outfit Democrats for Education Reform, has already proven to be an even more thornier foe for the NEA and AFT (along with state Democrat party leaders who are servile to the unReform, has already proven to be an even more thornier foe for the NEA and AFT (along with state Democrat party leaders who are servile to the unions).

So it isn't shocking that Ravitch engaged in what can best be called cynical race - baiting (and, at worse, craven bigotry) with a piece she wrote on her eponymous blog bemoaning school reform advocate 50CAN's hiring of new generation civil rights activist Derrell Bradford as head of its New York branch.

Teachers there are very frustrated with this kind of education «reform» and TFA is just another branch of that reform which will not be welcomed by most teachers there.

Williams has enjoyed plenty of success outside Formula 1, too, tackling everything from Group B rally monsters to Le Mans - winning prototypes, achieving considerable success in touring cars, and working with the newly reformed Jaguar Racing to engineer one branch of motorsport's future: Formula E cars.

Begin the zoning reform process with a view toward changes in the zoning laws that currently force small businesses to compete with large drug stores and bank branches for commercial street space in certain commercial strips.

With Congress at almost a complete gridlock and Obama increasingly willing to issue controversial executive orders on a host of matters, the courts, if they rule as widely expected, will almost function as a quasi after - the - fact legislative branch, «passing» Obama's reforms after he unilaterally signs them.

Despite recent efforts to make the draconian UK Family Court system more compatible with the ECHR — in both domains of private and public law — it still remains an aberration long overdue root and branch reform.

Sadly, the ultimate destination for unbridled so - called market based reform is provision through large units, with the risk which this creates of fusion of the solicitor and barrister branches of the legal profession.