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Water Rights: Gori District Ready to Fight “Mtkvari M”
April 8, 2008
The villages in Gori District continue to be without water. Locals are calling upon the government to stop the showing-off process of the so-called rehabilitation of the irrigation channels and let the water flow back into the channel. Currently, the villages cannot even supply their livestock with water. The channels are bone dry because the government continues with repairs. Not showing appreciation, locals consider what is being done as just part of pre-election campaign of the water authority.
Property Rights: Kutaisi City Hall “Wants its Cake and to Eat it too!”
April 8, 2008
“Impunity of the Georgian government exceeds all boundaries. The society lives under constant tension. Today we might buy a house through all necessary legal procedures, register them but tomorrow they will come and then tell you that you have purchased a pig in the poke – and to leave the area immediately – and on top of that – this house does not belong to your after all … Esma Norakia, a lawyer, based her comments on the controversy between Kutaisi City Hall and the administration of the JSC Universal Stockbrokers Rioni”.
Pre-Election Shenanigans in Gori
April 8, 2008
Badri Nanetashvili, Shida Kartli “media magnate” is trying to return to power politics for a second time. It is documented Nanetashvili, director of TV-company Trialeti, now wants to become a MP. He used to be an MP until he was dismissed from the parliament on June 21, 2006 based on a decision of the majority of MPs. The reason for his dismissal was that Nanetashvili was still involved in entrepreneurial activities, which is a conflict of interests and law. Moreover, he was blackmailing high governmental authorities and businesspersons of Shida Kartli with discrediting news reports on his TV Company. The Public Defender’s report of 2006 fully describes his activities and why he was kicked from the Parliament.
Road blocked for Deaf and Dumb Children Wanting to Attend School
April 7, 2008
Giorgi Bendeliani dreams of being able to go to school. He is ten and has been deaf and dumb since birth. Two years ago he took lessons with the group of deaf and dumb children. However, a year later the district municipality stopped funding the lessons and the group was abolished. Giorgi was not accepted at the public school in his native village of Jikhashkari. The schoo’s administration stated there were special schools for similar children in Georgia and that he needed to go there to study.
Studio “Monitor” Investigative Report on Failed Justice
April 7, 2008
Despite all the many reforms implemented by Georgian government the court system is still in the habit of passing unfair decisions. Nino Zuriashvil’s journalistic investigation of how the court system does not apply equal justice shows just how bad this issue is for Georgian society, as it was represented at Cinema House on April 4.
Reconciliation for Georgian-Abkhazian Families
April 7, 2008
Links are not always destroyed because of political problems and armed conflicts. There are still many kinks working Georgians and Abkhazians. There are many mixed families who were caught up in events that were out of their control in the early 90s. Such human resources are very important in restoring trust between parties to ethnic and political conflict. Rezo Bendeliani has been leading the Association of Georgian-Abkhazian Mixed Families for many years. The aim of the organization is to reunite families that have been torn apart because of the Abkhaz-Georgian war. The track record is impressive with 3,500 families being rejoined since 2003.
Public Defender Supports Hog Farmers
April 4, 2008
Georgian Public Defender Sozar Subari demands that the government to come up with funds to compensate small swine producers that suffered losses from the Montgomery disease and the culling of herds. The Ombudsman sent recommendations to the Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze and Davit Tkeshelashvili, the State Minister for Regional Management. If the government does not consider the recommendations of those who were impacted Sozar Subari intends to take a case to court and hold the government financially responsible. Moreover, demonstrations will be organized as part of the effect to cover the losses sustained by farmers.
Georgian Rule of Law Tarnished and Broken by “Governmental” Courts
April 3, 2008
Attorneys in Kutaisi have expressed their position about forbidding cameras at the court while trial. Most local lawyers consider that the government will not change its mind and the quality of court proceeding and justice will only turn to worse. The term “Impartial Court” should become even more unreal and Georgia will become a state that can only prosecute and all will be found guilty. The attorneys announced today that everything happened just as they had expected. Governors have bribed the court and justice shows.
Whose Membership Is More Important in Parliament: “Businessmen or Drivers?”
April 3, 2008
The pre-election battle has already started heating up for the up-coming Parliamentary Elections on May 21. Political parties, both oppositional and governmental ones, have been actively involved the process with finger pointing, name calling and deal making. Each party has its own selective method of fighting it out in the political trenches. The National Movement tries to gain the sympathy of people in various ways, not only by making various promises but tries to improve its image by offering familiar faces for future parliament members. In the new list of National Movement you will see not only culture figures but pragmatic business leaders as well. Why would such upstanding and successful people ever want to get politics in the first place? Are they ready to give up their successful businesses and get into the fight against the opposition and become public servants?
IDPs living Akhaltsikhe wait for registration of their flats
April 3, 2008
IDPs residing in Akhaltsikhe can only hope for better times. They have become accustomed to never-ending disappointment. They have attempted to solve some of their problems by appealing to the Akhaltsikhe Municipality Council for the purpose but it makes little difference in their lives. They find themselves holding the short end of the stick.
Stones Thrown in the Flooded Liakhvi River, Yellow-Red Facades, Japanese Quince Trees against Poverty
April 2, 2008
At last the pre-election campaign in Gori has been initiated in the name of “Poverty Reduction Program” and prosperity is within a stones throw. With much fanfare in the last week almost all high-ranking officials from the executive government have visited Gori and its various districts. The officials enjoyed watching how stone were being thrown in the flooded Liakhvi River. Several ministers with their deputies arrived in Gori from Tbilisi just to see heaps of stones that had delivered from Marneuli district.
Waterless and Harvestless Farmer in Kakheti
April 2, 2008
Protesting peasant farmers in Kakheti are angry and their tempers have already reached peaked out. Thousands are demanding water so to irrigate their small plots. They have appealed to the Georgian Ministry of Agriculture and local government several times with their pleas but to no avail. Unless “Alazani Ltd” allows water to be diverted into irrigation system immediately, it is highly possible that this year’s crop will be a complete failure. Many of the seedlings of cucumber, tomato and other vegetable crops have already been severely impacted by not having access to water.
Sidewalks and Side-deals: Characteristic Feature for Pre-Election Campaign
April 1, 2008
Pre-election campaign is starting out with the removal of broken sidewalks and ends with the laying of a new layer of concrete or tiles, which will need replacement the next election. Habits are hard to break, especially when the local government maintains the same traditions as to what has gone before. Now it is all busy work and the central part of the city is getting dug in the run-up to May parliamentary elections.
“Increasing Pension does not “Helping People”
April 1, 2008
Today is the first of April (fool’s day in Georgia). From this day on more than half million pensioners in Georgia will receive a 70 GEL pension instead of their much expected 55 GEL. It is not a joke, be it April fool or not; there is a pension increase in Georgia and this is part of the much acclaimed 50-day poverty reduction program that the government boosts so much about.