House of Assembly meets March 1, 2018; Throne Speech will be read
Some work was done on the building for the lying in state of late Legislator Omar W. Hodge, who died on December 20, 2017 and was buried on January 18, 2018.
The next meeting of the HoA will take place on Thursday March 1, 2018 at 10:00 A.M. and it will mark the return to the Parliament Chambers following the Hurricanes of September 2017 that destroyed the building, leaving just the frame standing.
The House had no home and met in two locations; at the Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duff's Bottom and the Arbitration Centre located on Wickham’s Cay II, Tortola.
The repair of the House of Assembly is being done by local contractor, Roy A. Garraway of Quality Construction Ltd.
First time Governor invited; Snubbed for his Swearing-In
At the March 1, 2018 session, the United Kingdom appointed Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert aka ‘Gus’, who the National Democratic Party, along with the Speaker of the HoA Hon Ingrid A. Moses, barred from being sworn in at the Chambers on August 22, 2017, forcing him upstairs to the High Court, will deliver his first Speech from the Throne.
The Speech, which is written by the Government of the day, represents the Administration’s legislative agenda. It is usually a laundry list of Bills to be passed, with little or nothing happening, and it’s more of a tradition in the Westminster system form of Government than things being put into action.
The session is expected to be carried live on radio.
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13 Responses to “House of Assembly meets March 1, 2018; Throne Speech will be read”
The house of assembly is usable after 6 months. Recovery has been slow and exhausting. We should be glad to see some progress because on September 6, the place looked like Ground Zero and a lot of people were feeling hopeless.
We're adapting a British tradition in a British Territory that is hardly British culturally. We should care about our cultural identity. We're West Indian and we're British and we seem to not know what either of those identities entail.
Our governor was disrespected for no reason but ego and now the same politicians that disrespected him rely on his liaison between us and our mother country to get help and to inform them on our needs. They should be ashamed for doing that and we should be ashamed for letting them do that.
Our politicians disrespected our governor. Our kids don't respect their parents. No one respects the law. We don't respect each other. Everyone wants respect and demands it but no one gives it. And now some people think the only way to get it is by violence, force and tyranny.
This 'who cares?' mentality is what got us to where we are. It starts out with the small things and then turn into the big things. Apathy isn't the right strategy for development.
We should care about what we're doing and what we're saying because what goes around comes around and our children are watching and learning. If we keep with this 'who cares?' mentality, we shouldn't be surprise in 20 years when not a damn body cares except the crippled old people left in the dirt and the dead young people in the grave.
There's no need for cynicism in everything.