Hinds questions timing, Belle says parliamentary reform commission is needed

Two prominent political scientists have taken different positions on the Government’s decision to establish a commission to review the structure and function of Parliament.While the current Head of the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr Kristina Hinds has suggested the timing is not right, Dr George Belle, who previously served in that position at the university, said the commission was necessary.Attorney General Dale Marshall announced at a post-Cabinet media conference last Friday that an eight-member Parliamentary Reform Commission (PRC) will provide recommendations on how the legislature could be transformed to better suit the country’s needs. He stressed that the body, headed by former President of the Senate Dr Richard Cheltenham, KC, would not replace the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC).Dr Hinds questioned the timing of the creation of the new commission, saying that it should have come after the CRC completes its work and there was at least a draft Constitution on the table.

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