Parliament to Convene From May 18 as Government Names Speaker and Senate Leadership Picks

  The Hon. Attorney General informed the Cabinet of the following dates for the meeting of the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament:

18^th May          –           Lower House of Parliament will meet to elect the Speaker and Deputy

Speaker of the House.  Elected members will also be sworn in during the sitting.  The Government will put forward Osbert Frederick as Speaker and Dr. Philmore Benjamin as Deputy Speaker

 

            20^th May          –           The Upper House of Parliament will meet to elect the President of the 

Senate and Deputy President.  Senators will also be sworn-in during the sitting.  The Government will put forward Alincia Williams-Grant as President and Philip Shoul and Deputy President.

 

26^th May          –           His Excellency the Governor General Sir Rodney Willilams will 

present the Speech from the Throne.