Speaker Holness News Today

There were two developments last week in Parliament’s oversight committee for the Integrity Commission (IC) to which Jamaicans must pay attention. One is the clear wish by the committee’s chairman, Edmund Bartlett, to relitigate Speaker Juliet...

THE EDITOR, Madam: The Gleaner dated April 24 published a news report which stated that Government MPs enunciated glowing tributes to former House Clerk, Valrie Curtis. This entire issue relates to House Speaker Holness and that unfortunate,...

After five months of stonewalling, Juliet Holness, the Speaker, finally relented on Tuesday and tabled the opinions by the Attorney General’s Chambers on the tabling of reports sent to Parliament by the Integrity Commission (IC) and the auditor...

GOVERNMENT LAWMAKERS paid tribute to former clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis in her absence on Tuesday, but the parliamentary Opposition reserved their accolades for a future event when they can commend the former administrator of...

LEADER OF Government Business in the House of Representatives Edmund Bartlett will today open the annual Sectoral Debate in Parliament. Lawmakers took a break after the end of the Budget Debate on March 26 but had to rush back to Parliament on...

Juliet Holness’ continued obduracy in refusing to release Attorney General Dr Derrick McKoy’s opinion on procedures for tabling reports by the auditor general (AuG) in Parliament is, to say the least, puzzling. So, too, was her seeming attempt to...

If you didn’t know better, it might be assumed that Juliet Holness, the Speaker of the House, was erecting ramparts because there is something to conceal. Or that Speaker Holness’ style is like an old-fashioned, mechanical toy which once wound-...

Opposition legislator Julian Robinson has contended that the longer the House Speaker holds on to the attorney general’s opinion on the tabling of reports from the auditor general and the Integrity Commission, the more the delay will fuel...

Juliet Holness can rightly claim that having only recently assumed the Speakership of the House – and with it the job as the legislature’s accountable officer, to whom its administrative staff ultimately reports – she has not had much time to...