The FNM will demonstrate outside parliament on Thursday if government passes a resolution to give Holy Cross MP Sidney Stubbs more time to avoid vacating his House of Assembly seat by getting his financial affairs in order. Mr Stubbs has not attended a meeting of the House since being declared bankrupt by a Supreme Court judge on March 30.
Mr. Stubbs’ extension by resolution is expected to be debated in the House on Thursday.
FNM leader Tommy Turnquest questioned the PLP government’s course of action, which he claimed, if followed, would be “blatantly illegal”. He accused government of abusing its legislative powers.
The wording of the Constitution states that Mr. Stubbs has the right to seek and receive extensions of time if he had an appeal before the court, however, Court of Appeal President Dame Joan Sawyer rejected his most recent motion for appeal and declared the case “dead in the water”.
Source: Kilah Rolle, The Tribune
