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Senators get more time to talk
Wade Mark -
THE Senate on Tuesday agreed that average senator s speech will now be 30 minutes, up from the 20-minute limit set last August to curb the covid19 pandemic, but not a full return to the pre-pandemic allocation of 40 minutes.
Moments before Opposition Senator Wade Mark could move a private motion to return to pre-pandemic allocations, Senate Leader Franklin Khan made proposals to which a split Senate agreed.
Khan proposed 45 minutes for a motion s mover, 40 minutes for the first responder and 30 minutes for all other speakers and the wrap-up.
Senate President Christine Kangaloo told Mark he now had 45 minutes.
Started in 2008, UTT Tamana campus to be completed in 2022
File photo: Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat.
Agriculture, Land and Fisheries Minister Clarence Rambharat said the UTT Tamana Campus is due to be completed in 2022. He said the campus, on which construction began in 2008, was currently at 89 per cent completion.
Rambharat was responding to a question on behalf of the Minister of Education in the Senate on Tuesday, posed by Opposition Senator Wade Mark, who wanted to know why the cost of the project increased from $975.5 million to $1.5 billion in 2017.
Rambharat said, “The question is based on a false premise, as the budget increased in 2013, not 2017. In July 2013, the government at the time agreed that the cost of the signature building complex would be increased to $1.501 billion. That increase was in 2013, not 2017.”
Browne: No-one caught covid19 in Parliament
Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne. File photo/Jeff Mayers -
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne said not one of Parliament s 355 staff nor any of its 31 senators had caught covid19 in the Red House, all due to protocols, such as reduced a speaking time. On Tuesday in the Senate, he objected to Opposition Senator Wade Mark s motion to revert to pre-pandemic speaking times. Not a single sitting member after over a year of the pandemic has been diagnosed as infected with covid19. We have all contributed to that statistic.
Browne said in a pandemic all must make sacrifices, yet Mark was only alleging political dictatorship by chanting Slay the Leviathan!
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