With both government and opposition MPs absent yesterday, a motion by the opposition to establish the independence of the Parliament Office was stalled.
After a vote of proclamation at the end of the debate, a division was called for and the result was a vote of 31 to 31, owing to the absence of the members Dawn Hastings of APNU, Cathy Hughes of the AFC and Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett from the government’s side.
The motion, by AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan, had called for the House to move that a Special Select Committee examine recommendations for the independence of the National Assembly on the steps
