Speaker postpones ruling on sanctioning reporter for inaccurate news story

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland postponed a ruling on whether or not a member of the media should be sanctioned for suggesting Attorney General Basil Williams had misled the National Assembly, despite urgings from Williams that he should rule then.

After hearing arguments from the Attorney General and PPP/C Chief Whip Gail Teixeira, who was strongly opposed to sanctioning a member of the media, the Speaker observed, “All freedoms are subject to limitations.”

Williams accused Vanessa Narine of the online news agency Citizen’s Report of misleading the public through an inaccurate report that was published on its website on Tuesday in relation to the proceedings of the