Category: Law

Finally, people start speaking

Here is a statement from a young revolt group in Bhutan that came up to challenge the atrocities of Bhutanese government: Many thanks to everyone who responded and posted their opinions and also sent the many messages in Facebook. We understand that any violence in the form of demonstrations...

Linking the Civil Service and Service Delivery

By Sangay Khandu This essay tries to explain the importance of managing performance in the public service in order to fix individual responsibility and accountability in the delivery of public services. Although institutional accountability has come to the centre stage of discussion on fixing accountability today, it is imperative...

King orders to release all those sentenced for carrying tobacco

Latest news from Thimphu confirms that King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk has issues orders to release 16 people who have been jailed for smuggling tobacco. The names of all those sent behind the bars for carrying tobacco is not available at this hours but campaigners for release of monk...

Additional pain to DNC

The judiciary in Bhutan is still under influences of the autocratic regime of the past upholding verdicts that are intended to crush all possible oppositions in the country. Few days before the death of freedom fighter Rongthong Kunley, his supporters in Bhutan, now serving jail sentence, have been given...

RMA circulation and economic rights

A recent notice from Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) the national financial institutions regulator, reads that Bhutanese citizens are not permitted to open back account out of the country. Though the RMA did mention it was just a notice of reminder, it came as a result of increasing trend among...

Right to vote: one scraps, others give

Adult franchise and voting rights are only stories that over 108,000 Bhutanese in exile and another 80,000 in Bhutan heard of. This has never turned to be a reality in their life. They saw several elections in Nepal, India and in western countries where they have been resettled through...