Civil aviation bill for select committee scrutiny

The government’s Civil Aviation Bill was on Thursday evening sent to a special select committee but not before both sides of the National Assembly argued over the proposed legislation and left Speaker Dr Barton Scotland questioning the point of the decision.

“…Considering in our statements here on [the] matter, which, I would suspect very strongly, when it goes to the special select committee will see all these arguments being repeated, I wonder whether we shouldn’t give some thought as to whether this is the most suitable way of doing it,” Scotland said after listening to arguments from both the government and the PPP/C Members of Parliament (MPs) for over an hour.