Trinidad PM to face questioning every month, new Parliamentary rules
Published:Monday | August 4, 2014 | 12:34 PM
Trinidad and Tobago today introduced several changes to its Parliament’s operation including a 30 minute prime ministerial question time on the second sitting of every month.
The new session of Parliament opened today with the changes to the Standing Orders.
As a result of the new changes, all statements by ministers now have to be submitted to the Speaker in advance of their delivery in Parliament.
These statements are also limited to 10 minutes and must be on government policy.
The new Standing Orders make provisions for urgent questions requiring just one hour notice as opposed to the 28-day notice period which previously applied to all ministerial questions.
The new rules also amend the length of speeches to be delivered by legislators.
Previously all speakers had a total of 75 minutes, but the new time limit is 30 minutes, with an extension of 15 minutes.
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