Dr. Major I had such hope for you...it seems that was misplaced. Another attempt at proper governance halted.

Can we now get a long overdue legal opinion from the AG's Office on whether sitting members of parliament who have not submitted their personal financial statement declarations, as required by law, should be held in contempt of parliament with all of the attendant consequences properly flowing therefrom?

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Up to now the people have not heard anything from the Speaker of House (Dr. Kendal Major) about the serious delinquency of many members of parliament in the required filing of their personal financial statement declarations. Is the Speaker among the delinquents and therefore unwilling to discharge his duties in this matter involving serious breach of the law by many parliamentarians?

Someone put a muzzle and a leash on the speaker. The PAC has jurisdiction over all public monies, and not just what is tabled in Parliament. This is corruption at its stinkiest! If we had Freedom of Information, we would know who is providing the legal opinions. This government will go down as the second most criminal PLP government in the history of the Bahamas. The history books will have their say of the criminal sock puppets with no moral or ethical compass and not a shred of patriotism for this poor country.

The Freedom of Information Act to be tabled will not provide any remedy to the scandals this government is involved in. Do you really believe they would put in a mechanism to hang themselves. The upcoming FOIA is a joke. Better than nothing, but sorely lacking. Come to the town hall meeting and see.

just another goddamned yellow bellied coward !

Well there is certainly enough evidence to warrant a full review of the books by PAC and the House should table any documents necessary for PAC to do their job. Anyone in the House of Assembly who does not agree should be arrested for obstruction of justice.

The FNM is as commie as they come, they was the ones that sold this country to the CHINESE with the Stadium, Airport road, and Giving them the Bahamar job. The Bahamas became commie under the FNM, you retard.

ok now the FNM needs to hire a lawyer and get a legal opinion on the whole issue. I guess the AG's moves are easy to dismantle.

I agree grassroot.

NOW the FNM needs to go crawl back into the cesspool where they belong.

Who wrote that statement that the Speaker read??????????????? We need a judicial review into the origin of that statement

Somehow we need to sue this AG, take her crooked ass to the Privy Council, something. It is just blatant how she is covering up/protecting her people and party. This is very dangerous ground, our democratic system is under attack by this woman's actions/deeds. This country is starting to resemble a dictatorship. Not good at all!

Very Very True ................ we are approaching a slippery slope on the abuse of power of the Office of the Attorney General

Yeah. Tell me why this woman's hand is in EVERTHING crooked, sinister or reeking of corruption in this Administration? Common denominator in all scandals appears to be the DPM or the AG? WTH!

If it is in fact true that PAC only possesses the power to send for persons, papers and records by way of a resolution in the House of Assembly, then PAC is only a waste of time. This was proven when Andre Rollins moved for tha appointment of a select committee to investigate the Rubin report. It will all boil down to politics, AGAIN.

Comrades why the look of surprise all over these hereto Tribune blog pages at just another PLP subscribing to yet another PLP WTF moment.
This stunning revelation illustrates that when his political push came to shove him, the Speaker of da House of Assembly is just another committed subscriber to all that is shameful on PLP side of House and within the PLP cabinet. Why even bother to hold out hope, to believe that there has to but one among them, willing to stand up for to truly represent the people.
Comrades of the red party, if this does not have all marks of a gift horse handed right from the speaker's own mouth, to give heavy heart about who is the true one to lead red shirts into 2017 General Elections, then, ya’ll all is without any hope in hell winning anything. I mean it's like, Kendal was jumps right inside reds mouths.

This Speaker never did know the Rules of Parliament and still doesn't clearly. He doesn't even know that the PAC is a Standing Committee (or pillar of Parliament) not a Select Committee, which is the kind that Rollins called for the other day. Both are governed by completely different rules and procedures. The Opposition is worthless too though, because they ought not have simply sat by and acceded to the nonsense the Speaker has been doing and has done here. Obviously they do not understand their power in the Parliament and as leaders of the PAC. A gaggle of people on both sides who do not know Parliament and do not know what in the hell they are doing; and clearly do not care to know.

The PLP crafted these House rules under Alfred Sears ........... the powers of the PAC should be clearly stated ............ why was it necessary to have the AG Office interfere in the operation of PAC??? This seems to be nothing more than a political hatchet job by the PLP old guard ......... SAD.

BTW ........... where can we find these Parliamentary rules on-line??????

The Powers of the PAC are clearly stated not to mention universally understood in Westminster Parliaments. The Speaker was talking total foolery yesterday and the Opposition just sat there and made no protest whatsoever. The AG has no jurisdiction in this regard. The Speaker, (who ought never have been elected Speaker because he is a novice and in mature Parliamentary democracies that is never done) simply does not know what he is doing and does not have the backbone to do right even when he is advised as to what is right.

Thomas Jefferson said: " When governments fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government [sic].

The American and French revolutions were sparked by governments that that became tyrants and oppressed the people!! Our leaders are doing crap right in front of our faces and don't care what we think or feel is a dangerous sign. One day soon the load of criminal governance will spark an upraising like we have never seen in this nation!! FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CANT SEE HOW THE PLP CAN THINK THAT THEY CAN STILL GET AWAY THE KIND OF BEHAVIOUR THAT THEY DID DECADES AGO!! THE PEOPLE ARE NOT SHEEPLES ANY MORE!!!

You have know you're not looking so good, when even Cuba's "Tool of Satan" makes you look bad. Comrade Castro thinks after his visit with the pope at the Vatican in Rome, that the pope's so impressive, he himself might be tempted change he ways by returning to attending church services. Then why not get the head bible thumpers to recruit the equally qualified PLP cabinet as church members? Da first Sunday morning sermon could cover sometin like; try impressing the people any PLP really cares a damn about their needs, and not just PLP's at the-very top PLP party's ladder.

The PLP Cabinet dare not go near any respectable church ........... maybe go somewhere like Philip McPhee or William Thompson cathedrals

I thought that this bespectacled chipmunk was developing some backbone. Alas I was very wrong, just another PLP small shit!

So if it is not tabled, then what??????

It actually does not need to be tabled and never is tabled in the form it currently is in (that is, being one section of what will be the Auditor General's full Annual Report presented at year's end.) They simply made this up to please Pratt and Allen.

If it is not tabled ....... then when????????????

It does not need to be tabled for the PAC to continue its investigations, investigations that can happen without the Auditor General doing an audit at all of the area. The Auditor General does not conduct audits at the instruction of anyone; the Office in that respect is autonomous. It just so happens that someone decided to leak that portion of his annual audit now in-progress, to the media. The Speaker does not have the authority to essentially disable a Standing Committee of Parliament by unilaterally declaring that it does not have the Powers it actually has. I guess at some point before the so-called rapture, the Opposition will figure out what the PAC is and how they are to proceed and respond to the Speaker's nonsense.

When stink ass brad and them were in opposition and the PAC reviewed the road improvement works, there was bo resolution brought to the house for them to look into it. The government of the day did not attempt to silence them. they were allowed to do their work and report to the people. This is pure bullshit,and we are just about at the bottom of the cesspool. This gov is steep in corruption.

PUBLIUS ................. we understand your point about the annual Auditor's report ........ but this UR 2.0 SHR section was leaked ............ this cannot wait until the end of the year (June 30 or December 31) ..... and soooooooo the Speaker may be in a Catch 22 situation this time according to the House rules ............. he has issued a precedent that may come back to create a serious impediment to accountability and transparency in governance

Nothing has to wait is what I'm saying. The PAC can proceed with its duly constituted work without the tabling of that report. The Speaker is in no catch 22 at all regarding House rules. He simply created a ruling out of thin air that has no basis in Rules and Procedure or in law regarding the Powers of the PAC. The PAC is not investigating the Auditor General, it is investigating Urban Renewal. And by the way, the Speaker has the report, and so does the PAC (FNM and PLP MPs), so its not like the public doesn't know or cannot know what's in it. The Speaker's ruling was a "don't touch Pratt and Allen" ruling, and the Opposition just sat there and didn't say boo. Amazing.

**................................................. Simple Solution ! ............................................................**

As the PAC is confined to examining only documents that are tabled in Parliament.

Then simply table required documents in Parliament to expose the facts surrounding all matters in question.

**Whats the problem?**

**..... You People Are Thinking With Party Colors Again, Instead Of Using Your Brains .....**

Who promoted you geniuses to GOD, to predetermine that the PLP would not permit the documents to be tabled?

Should the PLP block the documents from being tabled, they automatically severely incriminate themselves, and would never be able to wiggle their way out of it!

Allow them the opportunity to exonerate or alternatively properly hang themselves.

**Whats the problem?....DUH,DUH,DUH!**

**Stop Wasting Energy Talking Shyt. We Should Concentrate On Following Guyana's Lead**

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/m…

**DUH HUH!**

Good block they stink FNM hip.