The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I have read an article in The Tribune, dated October 26, 2017.

Major need for parliamentary reform still exists. Parliamentary privilege should not differ with each administration.

Dr. Kendal Major would you please tell me – how would you separate the Parliament from the Cabinet and how would they function?

From time immemorial, the speaker has been appointed by the PM from the Governing side of the MP’s.

A speaker cannot have his own administration in a unitary system, because a speaker is a part of the governing party and has his own office.

There are the separation of powers between the government and the judiciary, but I have never heard of any person asserted that Parliament should be separate from the cabinet.

Tell the Bahamian people how does that function? And give the name of the country that you know the system is in practice.

Dr. Major, you did not convince the former PLP government about your interests, in having parliamentary reform, but you are trying to convince the present administration on a reform of the House. I watched you make a few errors, while you were in the Speaker’s chair prior to election 2017.

Your suggestion is nonsensical and is absolutely out of order, because you are referring to Parliamentary rules that were in the books from the 19th Century. Dr. Major in your seventh paragraph, you asserted I think members have to exercise judicial responsibility.

While I was studying British politics many years ago, I wrote a letter to the Editor and I have made a comment about an Ombudsman System for The Bahamas.

I am very much in favour of having the Ombudsman in our Government System.

Now I am so very happy for the Ombudsman having been passed to be assented into law.

The Ombudsman System will also take some of the work load and complaint load not only from the Central Government Departments, but also from the local government departments in The Bahamas, there should be a difference.

I am also in favour of an independent public prosecutor in the judicial system of The Bahamas.

BEVAN B. MOSS,

Nassau,

October 31, 2017.