{"id":8890,"date":"2010-05-05T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2010-05-13T22:53:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:53:49","slug":"breaking-news-uwp-elected-members-informed-of-vacated-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/breaking-news-uwp-elected-members-informed-of-vacated-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Three strikes and you&#8217;re out &#8211; Alix Boyd-Knights tells UWP members"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8922\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Boyd-Knights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8922\" title=\"Boyd-Knights\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Boyd-Knights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Boyd-Knights.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Boyd-Knights-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyd-Knights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By DNO Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seats of the United Workers Party (UWP) in the Marigot and Salisbury constituencies have been declared vacant by the Speaker of the House of Assembly Alix Boyd-Knights, meaning they now stand without parliamentary representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker officially informed the media of the matter this morning at a press conference, following the issuance of letters yesterday to Edison James and Hector John, the elected members for the Marigot and Salisbury constituencies respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to Boyd-Knights, James and John had been vacated as members of the Parliament on the grounds that they had been absent for three consecutive House of Assembly sittings, without presenting an excuse or requesting leave-which are procedures required to be followed in such circumstances, according to the Standing Orders which govern the House.<\/p>\n<p>The elected members of the Marigot and Salisbury constituencies were absent for the three consecutive times Parliament convened on February 4<sup>,<\/sup> March 29 and April 29, since the December 18, 2009 general elections. While the elected member for the Roseau Central constituency Norris Prevost of the UWP missed the first two sittings, he appeared at the House on April 29, to take his Oath of Allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo here it is, there were three members of the Opposition, who when summoned to the first meeting of the House after the elections I think on the 4th of February did not come to the House. In baseball terms; strike one,\u201d the speaker explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second meeting was going to be held on the March 29 and we received letters &#8230; Three members of the Opposition wrote letters, and the letters read, \u201c They were dated 16 March,\u00a0 but they were actually delivered to the House on the 26 of March and the one from Mr James read: &#8216;Dear Madam I wish to\u00a0 advise that I will\u00a0 not be able to attend the meeting of the House scheduled to be held on Monday 29, March, 2010 &#8230; it is for these reasons that I cannot attend&#8230;,\u201d Boyd-Knights said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Standing Orders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Speaker, Standing Orders 15.1 and 15.2 which applies to members not attending sittings of the House states that a member ought to inform the Speaker of their inability to attend the sitting of the House, and request leave if they will miss three straight meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c The first one says &#8230; that if you just missing the odd meeting you can go under Standing Order 15.1 just simply to say well [I\u2019m out of state, or I am not well so I won\u2019t be coming to the House]. The second part tells you, in order not to run afoul of missing three meetings without excuse you have to do something else. You have to write &#8230; The person has to ask for leave, and they have to do so previous to the meeting,\u201d Boyd-Knights explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (Standing Order 15.2) says&#8230; [If without leave or order of the speaker previously obtained, any member is absent from three consecutive meetings of the house to which he has been separately summoned during the same session, such member shall vacate his seat],\u201d the Speaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd-Knights added, \u201c&#8230;Standing Order 15 gives me no power to alter letters; to turn a letter of information into a request for leave to miss parliament, yet they want me to do that. So there it is where I have no powers they want to give me and where I have powers they don\u2019t want to give me. ..and so because of the fact that I have no discretionary powers in the matter I simply have to do what the Standing Orders tell me to do. I have had no choice but to inform the two gentlemen that their seat is now vacant and all parties concerned have been so informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>No leave granted<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The House Speaker explained that she replied to each of the members letters stating their letters merely advises that they will not be able to attend the meeting of the House March 29, 2010, and no actual leave was requested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since no leave of excuse was requested by you in your said letter you are hereby advised that no leave has been given to you to be absent from the said meeting,\u201d Boyd-Knights explained in response to James and John a through letter.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd-Knights said that\u00a0 Prevost took his oath and is now an active parliamentarian unlike the two other members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that individual, Honourable Norris Prevost has done what he has to do as far as his remuneration [is] concerned, and you know the privileges that he has to enjoy as a parliamentarian. Unfortunately the other two elected members did not do so, and so I was faced with a situation where members missed three meetings. I don\u2019t have any as had been suggested discretionary powers here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd-Knights responded to claims made over the media that she had been biased in not granting leave to the three members of the House after granting leave to other members of the House on previous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>She further pointed out two instances where she granted both UWP Parliamentarians Earl Williams and Edison James leave from the House for separate reasons, after they provided their letters informing her of their inability to attend and their request for leave, which she granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the media some persons or one of the political leaders were saying  that I am biased because I gave Earl Williams permission and I didn\u2019t  give the others&#8230;\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd-Knights said that this is the first time in history that this situation has happened in Dominica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DNO Correspondent The seats of the United Workers Party (UWP) in the Marigot and Salisbury constituencies have been declared vacant by the Speaker of the House of Assembly Alix Boyd-Knights, meaning they now stand without parliamentary representatives. 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