Sentences with phrase «members of watchdog»

Inside the country, members of Watchdog Thailand recently met with senior military officers in the junta and urged them to pass an animal rights law that would outlaw killing dogs for meat.

He indicated that the vigilance of the members of the Watchdog Committee at Asankabreman near Asankragwaa had also led to the retrieval of four pistols from a resident in the area, one Abubakar Alari, now at large.

Not exact matches

A director of Alto42 Ltd, a risk governance specialist company, and a board member for public transport watchdog, Passenger Focus, Marian is a former senior Army officer and was a chair of the sustainable transport charity Sustrans.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

However members of the Commons Standards Committee have just voted 3 - 2 against allowing Parliament's watchdog to investigate the claims.

Chris Wright, a member of the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, the county's fiscal watchdog, called Jacobs his best friend in government and one of the nicest people he knew.

Board member Ken Olisa talks to us about why MPs shouldn't need to sleep in their offices and how some mistakes were inevitable because of the rapid creation of the watchdog.

Two years after members of the JCOPE complained of interference by Cuomo's administration, phone records show that Cuomo's top attorney repeatedly called the state's ethics watchdog agency.

An analysis by a government watchdog group this spring found Katko ranked seventh among 58 freshman House members for the amount of campaign money accepted last year from PACs.

City Council members criticized the New York Police Department for neglecting victims of sexual assault after a watchdog - agency found the department's Special Victims Division lacked resources and sufficient training.

For skeptics of the chronically criticized members of the state Legislature, the 2016 legislative session has often seemed in danger of becoming what some Albany watchdogs used to call a «Seinfeld session» — all about nothing — with big issues languishing.

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But Ms Jones, who is also a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority watchdog, said: «Any officer that shoots a student with a baton round will have to answer to the whole of London.»

The watchdog was responding Conservative party concerns that the institute should not be classed as a charity while it was so closely aligned with members of the Labour party.

At least two of New York's Republican House members — Reps. John Katko and Claudia Tenney — said they voted «no» on the secretive plan to effectively do away with the independent ethics watchdog of Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Central New York's two House members said today they voted against a secretive Republican plan to effectively do away with an independent ethics watchdog of Congress.

Duncan Smith said it may be right to end the way in which MPs have the sole right — apart from the non-voting lay members of the standards committee — to sit in judgment on the findings by the independent standards watchdog.

Both House members said they support keeping an independent watchdog of Congress.

Members of several good government, fiscal watchdog and education advocacy groups Wednesday took issue with the bill, saying it benefits mainly rich donors, and violates the separation of church and state.

Members of the Public Integrity Commission, the state's ethics watchdog, are rebuffing Governor Paterson's calls for them to step down in response to a report from inspector general Joseph Fisch.

The London Assembly is an elected watchdog for the capital made up of 25 Assembly Members.

But the Article 29 Working Party, which is composed of data protection watchdogs from the EU's 27 member states, hit out at the plans to collect PNRs [Passenger Name Record] at all, let alone on the much more expansive basis proposed by the Home Office.

The state's judicial watchdog should investigate controversial Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Noach Dear, according to Assemblyman Michael Montesano, the ranking Republican member of the Judiciary Committee.

The other members of the earmark - reform coalition are the watchdog groups Citizens Against Government Waste, Taxpayers for Common Sense and Public Citizen.

Beyond the New York State Comptroller's responsibilities as fiscal watchdog over the state's finances and the management practices of state agencies, the position has particular importance to CSEA members.

Responding to the watchdog's finding, the campaign group went on the offensive, with an extraordinary statement that accused one member of the commission of being a «political whore».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders today named the members of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the latest incarnation of an anti-corruption watchdog on the beat.

A senior member of the campaign group has also been reported to the Metropolitan Police because the watchdog said it had «reasonable grounds to suspect» they had committed criminal offences.

The Assembly member for the Nii Doku Electoral Area, Yusif Gariba, noted that «it was around 6:00 am that I was called by one of the watchdog committee members in the area that a young man believed in his thirties has allegedly committed suicide on a neem tree at the Jericho Agric park.»

The county is struggling to close its $ 160 million budget deficit, and the Government Justice Center, which includes members of conservative government watchdog groups, says these fees are being raised for the general fund.

ALBANY — The state ethics watchdog has forwarded a report of its findings to two legislative panels for possible sanctions after ending its probe of the Assembly's handling of sexual harassment allegations involving a senior member.

«It kind of reminds me of the Jack Abramoff situation,» said Alex Camarda, an adviser for the watchdog group Reinvent Albany, likening Mr. Howe to the disgraced Washington lobbyist whose admissions of influence - peddling schemes a decade ago captivated the country, sent members of Congress to prison and spurred reforms.

The next chair of the exams watchdog Roger Taylor is an Ofqual board member and has had a career in the health sector, business and the media.

In the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, teacher union watchdog Mike Antonucci reports, «NEA members lean no further to the left than any other large group of Americans.

Tip of the Hat to union watchdog and critic Mike Antonucci for noting that, on the final day of the 2014 Representative Assembly, NEA members approved yet another change to the evaluation language, this time making it abundantly clear that standardized tests can never be used.

ALLi has a Code of Standards for both Partner and Author Members and a Watchdog Desk.

CompletelyNovel is a Partner Member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, and has been vetted by ALLi's Watchdog Desk.

This elegant dog breed of the terrier group is completely devoted to its family members and known for being obedient to commands, super intelligent (which makes training one a breeze) and always on alert, so they're great watchdogs.

Mark all that might apply: Excessive barking Biting Digging Moving Shedding Divorce Illness Allergies Poor watchdog Destructive chewing Excessive vet bills Financial problems Accidents indoors New spouse or partner doesn't like pet Aggressive on leash New family addition Growling at guests / family members Other None of the above

They are popular as family watchdogs because they bark a lot at strangers but guard members of their family as part of their pack.

As New Mexico Watchdog reporter Jim Scarantino has written in a series of articles, the majority of EIB members — including (and especially) its chairman, Gregory Green — have conflicts of interest because they represent (and are paid by) activist groups who jointly brought the petition before the EIB.

AUSTIN — In late 2007, the appointment of Bryan Shaw, a Texas A&M professor and air pollution expert, to the three - member board that oversees the state's environmental agency drew praise from a prominent government watchdog.

The privacy watchdog accepted 426 complaints from members of the public about privacy concerns in the private sector, says the report, which attributes the spike mainly to a surge of complaints about Bell Canada's announcement last year that it would use clients» account information to create more targeted ads.

According to Fraud Watchers, the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC) has just over 1,000 authorized members, but the watchdog group estimates an additional 5,000 unauthorized «ghost» consultants operate in Canada, and likely many thousands more in other countries.

And an interim board member says the new national reconciliation commission will act in the role of a watchdog.

In a high - profile case in Calaveras County, a homeowners association, exercising its right to nonjudicial foreclosure, auctioned off the home of one of its members — for nonpayment of association dues — at well below its appraised value, according to American Homeowners Resource Center, an association watchdog group.

She is a member of the Delaware Association of Realtors Public Policy Committee, operating as a legislative watchdog for real property manners at the Delaware General Assembly.

Another board member described demands from Ottawa's competition watchdog to draft new policies enabling the creation of Virtual Office Websites (VOWs) as «worse than a knee replacement» in terms of the pain it could cause traditional bricks - and - mortar realtors.