MPs urged to say sorry
PARLIAMENTARIANS are being asked to apologise to the nation's youth for their actions in the House of Assembly on Tuesday. In a Press release, youth activist and chairman of the Drug Education and Counselling Services, Roge...
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MPs urged to say sorry
PARLIAMENTARIANS are being asked to apologise to the nation's youth for their actions in the House of Assembly on Tuesday. In a Press release, youth activist and chairman of the Drug Education and Counselling Services, Roge...
Online readers say: Shame!
A FAILING GRADE! That is what Barbadians near and far have given to parliamentarians for their behaviour in the House of Assembly in recent times. On NATIONNEWS.com and our Facebook page (facebook.com/NationBarbados), reade...
HEAT IN THE HOUSE
VOICES WERE RAISED. Tantrums were thrown. People were asked to leave because of disorderly conduct. People walked out in protest. And it all happened in the House of Assembly yesterday. The melee resulted in the ejection...
Freedom of speech: not in House
BARBADOS' DEMOCRACY is now at risk. Opposition Leader Mia Mottley made this charge at a hastily called Press conference yesterday just after she and Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew, George Payne, were ejected from t...
Sinckler: Mia must follow the rules
SPEAKER of the House of Assembly Michael Carrington was "terribly disrespected" by Opposition Leader Mia Mottley and St Andrew MP George Payne who were spurred on and commanded by former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. Leader o...
Marshall’s statement
Statement of Dale D. Marshall, Q.C., M.P. given at Parliament this 27th day of April, 2010 MR SPEAKER, the circumstances in which I stand to address this Honourable Chamber are such that they can bring no pleasure. To ...
Arthur saddened by turn of events
FORMER Prime Minister Owen Arthur said he was saddened to see the level to which Parliament had plummeted. And according to him, Speaker Michael Carrington was a representation of the "poor rakey parliament this parliament ...
BLP’S BACK
THE NINE SEATS which were conspicuously empty in the House of Assembly last Tuesday will be filled today. And according to Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, the voices of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) will be heard as they ...
MP: Not so
MINISTER OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Dr David Estwick, under fire for his role in a March 19 incident involving an Opposition MP, has flatly denied he brandished a gun whilst at Parliament during last month's Estimates debate. But ...
Speaker’s Say
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Michael Carrington, has described the Opposition Barbados Labour Party's boycott of yesterday's sitting as a slap in the face of the parliamentary process and bordering on contempt. Carri...
