HOUSE SPEAKER Juliet Holness on Tuesday bowed to public pressure after months of intense debate and released the opinion of the Auditor General’s Chambers, allowing the documents to be tabled in the House of Representatives. Holness did not act.
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the parliamentary Opposition may ask the court to compel House Speaker Juliet Holness to release the legal opinion of the attorney general (AG) on how reports sent to Parliament are to be tabled. Golding has.
The attorney general’s (AG) denial of an access to information request for the advice provided to Parliament on how to handle reports by the auditor general (AuG) is not, on its face, surprising. Derrick McKoy’s chambers relied on Section 17 (a).
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Juliet Holness’ continued obduracy in refusing to release Attorney General Dr Derrick McKoy’s opinion on procedures for tabling reports by the auditor general (AuG) in Parliament is, to say the least, puzzling. So, too, was her seeming attempt to.