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GSD says parliamentary scrutiny without answers to questions is ‘fast becoming a farce’ Pic: Johnny Bugeja 1st February 2021 The GSD has called on the Gibraltar Government to hold “a proper” question and answer session in the Gibraltar Parliament, adding it has a backlog of over 250 unanswered questions and that the concept of parliamentary scrutiny “is fast becoming a farce.” Parliament has not had a full ‘question and answer’ session since late July last year, with the parliamentary diary disrupted by the demands of Covid-19 and Brexit. The GSD acknowledged that pressur...

THE 8TH PARLIAMENT: The Prophecy, The Twists By ALSWEL ANNAN JAN 27, 2021 In my previous article titled The 8th Parliament: A True Test of Ghana’s Democratic Fabric (take a quick read here – https://citinewsroom.com/2021/01/the-8th-parliament-a-true-test-of-ghanas-democratic-fabric-article/ ); although not an Elijah, Jeremiah nor Isaiah of Ghana politics, I laid emphasis on the fact that the political composition of the 8th Parliament will bring to bare a lot of novel practices especially with regards to the formation of both Standing and Select Committees of the House. This prophesy so ...

Giving evidence on the Arctic This week, Fitzwilliam Fellow, Dr Richard Powell, has been giving evidence to the House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Environmental Diplomacy. Dr Powell is currently a Reader in Arctic Studies, and the Principal Investigator in a five-year Arctic Cultures project, undertaken at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Select Committees work in both UK Houses of Parliament and those in the Commons are primarily concerned with examining the work of government departments. There is a Commons...

Kwasi Kwarteng was recently named as a business secretary by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, making him the first Black secretary of state.

Haruna Iddrisu, MP, Tamale South The National Democratic Congress Caucus on Thursday insisted that the NPP Group cannot claim a majority in the House despite a letter by Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako, the Independent MP for Fomena to associate with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Group in Parliament. Mr Asiamah Amoako has written to Speaker Alban Bagbin to officially indicate his willingness to associate with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Side in the House. “I Andrew Asiamah Amoako, an Independent Member for Fomena Constituency and now the 2nd Deputy Speaker for the same Parliament do hereby decla...