Tag: Ezzard Miller
Speaker gives government MLAs second chance
(CNS): The speaker of the Legislative Assembly adjourned the special meeting today at around 10:30am until 2pm after her formal summons from the chair to members failed to produce a quorum to allow the House to meet. After Julianna O’Connor-Connolly gave members a second chance to show up for the controversial meeting this afternoon, the […]
Legal rumble brewing for LA meetings
(CNS): A legal dispute among lawmakers could be brewing, depending on how the premier and the speaker handle tomorrow’s Legislative Assembly meeting, which House Speaker Julianna O’Connor-Connolly called in response to a request by the opposition members. The premier is expected to attend briefly to explain why government will not be supporting the special meeting but […]
Miller queries parliamentary questions delays
(CNS): The independent member for North Side has asked why it is taking so long for ministers to get the information they need to answer parliamentary questions when millions of taxpayers’ dollars are being invested in the civil service. Ezzard Miller said he has questions that are outstanding from as far back as two years ago […]
MLA: Premier’s boycott ‘disrespectful’
(CNS): The representative for North Side has described the premier’s decision to boycott the Legislative Assembly meeting requested by the opposition, set for next week, as disingenuous and disrespectful to all of members of parliament, including the speaker. But Ezzard Miller, one of the five independent members who joined forces with the opposition members, said […]
Miller warns PAC will call for sanctions
(CNS): As the Public Accounts Committee prepares reports based on the recent hearings scrutinising a number of reports by the Office of the Auditor General, the chair has warned he will be raising his concerns over evidence given by two chief officers and will be asking the deputy governor to discipline them. Ezzard Miller said […]
PPM undermining parliament, says MLA
(CNS): The independent member for North Side told CNS that he does not know how many times he needs to raise the issue about Legislative Assembly meetings before any government will make a change and accept that the failure to convene the parliament is undermining transparency and democracy. Ezzard Miller said the lack of parliamentary […]
Cops ignore home invasion report
(CNS): It took police more than 14 hours to respond to a home invasion in progress in North Side during the early hours of Friday 18 March. Two men broke into the holiday home in Rum Point Drive at around 2:30am, and when the owner, who is a regular visitor to the island, awoke to […]
CO blames minister for lack of plan
(CNS): The chief officer in the planning ministry, Alan Jones, has said that he told the current minister of planning, Kurt Tibbetts, that there was a legal requirement to review the country’s development plan but he did not get the necessary support. However, he admitted to the Public Accounts Committee that he has never asked the minister to […]
Mac accuses auditors of ‘rotten’ agenda
(CNS): Following the recent meetings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush has once again hit out at the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) and accused them of telling a “bellyful of lies” because of their own “rotten” agenda. Bush has denied that politicians were the architects of the original Dart […]
Ozzie signs off on medical welfare cases
(CNS): Public Accounts Committee members were shocked to learn Friday that the law requires the community affairs minister to sign off on all cases of people who need medical care but do not have health insurance or are under-insured. Osbourne Bodden is currently the minister holding the cheque book over who does and does not […]
CPA chair admits dismissing technical advice
(CNS): The chair of the Central Planning Authority (CPA) admitted dismissing advice from government experts at the Water Authority – Cayman, the National Roads Authority, the Department of Environment and even the planning department because, he said, his board members know what they are doing. Although no one on the CPA has professional and academic expertise in […]
