(Trinidad Express) House Speaker Wade Mark should do the honourable thing and resign.
This is according to former House Speaker Nizam Mohammed, who said on Tuesday he does not believe Mark made an innocent error as he claimed.
Last Friday, a motion of censure filed by political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) Jack Warner against Finance Minister Larry Howai collapsed after Mark said the matter of debate was before the court.
Mark, speaking before the commencement of the debate on the motion of censure, had told Parliament: “I received only a few hours ago a notice from the High Court of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, dated January 16, 2015, a matter involving Larry Howai and Azad Ali of the Sunshine Publishing Company Ltd.”
On Monday, however, the Judiciary issued a release, stating: “While there appears to be some misunderstanding which we expect the Honourable Speaker of the House to clarify, the Judiciary can confirm that no notice, letter or any other communication on the matter was forwarded by the court or any of its officers to the Speaker or any officers of the Parliament.”
On the heels of this, Mark issued a release, stating he made an “inadvertent” error when he “conveyed the impression that the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago had sent him a notice, dated January 16, 2015, of the matter (involving Howai and Ali) before it”.
Mark stated it was Howai, the subject of the motion of censure, who had notified him by letter last Thursday of his (Howai’s) lawsuit against Warner’s Sunshine newspaper. Mohammed, an attorney and former chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), said he does not believe Mark.
