Hon J. Alvin Christopher shocked @ Speaker’s absence
“The Speaker of the House left the Territory without informing the members that she would have been out. Members of the Opposition did not receive any correspondence that she would have been out,” said Hon Christopher in a comment to this news site on August 15, 2014.
“That’s not normal…when the Speaker is leaving the Territory she informs members so that [you can know how to address official correspondences]. When the Speaker or the Clerk is leaving the same thing is done,” he said.
“If the Speaker was out and did not inform us that she was out, when we wrote the letter on Wednesday August 13, 2014, we could have addressed it to the acting Speaker but we didn’t know. We had no information, no knowledge that the Speaker would have been out of the House,” he said.
“And we wrote the letter on Wednesday August 13, 2014 because the Sitting was Thursday August 14, 2014 and when we took the letter to her [office] we were told that she was not there,” he said.
“We were shocked…we were wondering how could this happen?” he asked in a perplexed tone.
At the continuation of the Eighth Sitting of the Third Session of the Second House of Assembly Hon Christopher excused himself from the Sitting after Deputy Speaker Hon Delores Christopher refused him leave to speak on a matter involving a letter that the Opposition members wrote to the Speaker with regards to the behaviour of Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn who read and distributed letters addressed to the Speaker without her permission.
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