The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) should aim at promoting the elimination of all forms of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton told representatives from different organisations at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre yesterday.
While 165 different entities were invited by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Appointments to join the discussion and starting of the selection process, only a fraction attended; more than half of the seats were unoccupied.
“Among many of its [ERC] functions it is very important to our society that we provide quality opportunity for persons of all the different ethnic groups,
