Committee on Public Information

ABSTRACT The recent collapse of Transmilenio, the public transport system of Colombia 's capital - Bogota, raises the question of how risk is managed in public transportation systems. This paper presents three case studies of companies in countries with advanced, emerging, and fast emerging economies, UK, Colombia and Brazil respectively. It aims to classify them according to the maturity level of their risk management processes. Hillson 's integrated risk management model will be used for…

Every parent wants only what is best for their tiny, new, little bundle of joy. Not many parents spend their pregnancy pondering the thoughts of vaccinations. However, when the time comes there is so much controversial information bombarding parents about vaccination nowadays it’s enough to give any parent, let alone new parents, nightmares. Are vaccinations safe? Should we vaccinate children? Do we have to? What happens if we choose not to vaccinate? Will the vaccination make our children ill?…

The legislative meeting that I watch online was the City Council Public Safety & Livable Neighborhoods meeting on November 12, 2015, the length of the meeting was two hours and 49 minutes .The official involved were council-member officials from the San Diego City Council, Police officials and the public. Marti Emerald is member of the San Diego City Council and President Pro Team from District 9, her main role in the meeting was to direct the meeting. Second official was Todd Gloria a member…

director, and a legal counsel to aide him through his rigorous job. The State of the Union speech is given by the president usually annually. The purpose of this speech is to update the nation on its current condition and wellbeing. It includes information about the economy, military, new laws, along with some other…

Community leaders should also be aware of the barriers that prevent youth involvement, and develop strategies to avoid or effectively handle these obstacles – should they present. Researchers have found that there are three major barriers that affect youth participation. The first barrier is manipulation – youth do not want to feel like the adult leaders are attempting to manipulate them by educating them on community development, rather than engaging them in the process. Secondly, youth do…

control during this time was found in the view of the United States citizens. People no longer had any trust in or showed any loyalty towards the government. In fact, people were probably the most skeptical towards the system now than ever before. The public was soured towards the government largely in part to the Vietnam war. There was extreme shame, death, and government…

Department of Health and Human Services. It is an abundant resource for the public to be able to access goals and objectives that have been set forth by the U.S. Government in an effort to help publicize health promotion and disease prevention in America. The website places emphasis on important areas where action needs to be taken…

assassination, a night club owner, Jack Ruby, shot dead Oswald on live television. Killing the main suspect only meant one thing; that the death of the key suspect denied Americans a fair criminal justice process that would have brought closure for a public trial. This historical event continues to be a very memorable one and until today, different scholars continue to debate on the different conspiracies behind the assassination. Most of these debates…

political party (What Is a PAC?). This limit was added to quell the fears of the wealthy forcing their agenda upon the middle and lower class of American citizens. A new kind of Political Action Committee emerged in 2010 after the supreme court decision made in “Citizens United vs. Federal Election Committee,” in which it was decided that “individuals could have no limit on how much they donate to corporations due to free speech” (Are Super PACs Good or Bad for Democracy?). The rise of these new…

Which set of individuals hold the power to both rule and govern a society, and how this power is acquired, is of crucial importance as it determines the overall way of life of a given group. Relations of power and politics are highly fluid, and can present themselves in a variety of divergent forms. A common form of political power relations is democracy. Democratic political rule involves a system of power relations vested in either elected individuals or the people themselves (Murrel, 2007).…