Opposition Leader concerned as his questions are not allowed in Parliament
(iWitness News) – Opposition Leader Ralph Gonsalves is asking whether St. Vincent and the Grenadines is witnessing “the beginning of a creeping dictatorship” as he said the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Ronnia Durham-Balcombe, has not allowed any of the three questions he submitted for oral answers in Thursday’s meeting of Parliament.
Among the questions if the role that Nicholas Friday is playing as his aide/assistant to his father, Prime Minister Godwin Friday.
Friday told iWitness News in December that his son functions as an aide to him and receives not payment from the government.
However, Gonsalves attempted to place the matter on the Order Paper for Thursday’s meeting of Parliament, asking a six-part question about the younger Friday’s role in the government, including whether he has taken an oath of secrecy.
He said on Star Radio, his Unity Labour Party’s radio station on Monday, that the speaker had informed him that the question would not be permitted as it breaks the rule that says, “Not more than one subject be referred to one question and a question shall not be made of excessive length.”
