With respect, I repeat my own view that the typical working-class citizen of this big beautiful, but blighted land makes little time to consider the role of the National Assembly and its chairpersons, described as speakers.
After voters elect their representatives to the “honourable house”, along with some government being put in place those voters quickly become dis-engaged citizens hustling a living and leaving governance to those they vote for. Technical, legal and constitutional matters are left to “de government” and “de Parliament”.
Happily, the Ninth and Tenth Parliaments seem to be changing many citizens’ attitudes to the goings-on in the assembly and the superintendence of the Speaker(s). A word on our honourable, distinguished speakers, over the years.
Speakers – then and now
Parliamentary historian Frank Narain would remind us of the earliest legislative bodies created
