PNP’s pleas to the Government brushed aside – The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is pleading with the government to have its members continue to chair the sessional committees of parliament after the government tabled documents to roll back the decades-old policy.
Leader of Government Business in the House, Edmund Bartlett, on Tuesday, September 29, told the Parliament that the chairmanship of four key oversight committees will revert to Government members. These are the Economy and Production, Internal and External Affairs, Human Resource and Social Development, and Infrastructure and Physical Development committees.
The practice of Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, which started in 2007 in order to improve transparency and Parliament’s oversight functions, was thrown out the window in the Sitting of the House of Representatives, after nearly thirteen (13) years of practice.
Jamaila Maitland has this report:
