Speaking Out #BTSpeakingOut – It’s either right or wrong Barbados Today Traffic05/02/20220227 views Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY. by Patrick Gittens Your newspaper is doing a disservice to the development of critical legal assessment when one of your reporters can publish the views of one lawyer criticising another lawyer in terms such as “RUBBISH”! In addition, I do not understand what is being achieved by the continual description of “constitutional law expert”; a legal position is either sound or it is not sound even if it comes from a non-lawyer. Section 35 is written in very unambiguous ENGLISH… “there shall be a Parliament of Barbados which SHALL consist of…….” There cannot therefore be an “opening” of something that does not yet exist! I am advised that Section 50 (2) is being invoked in the process of supporting this action; for the avoidance of doubt, Section 50 deals with “the regulation of proceedings in Parliament”, that section is only operative where there IS a Parliament that has been legally constituted! This country has really lost its way when that advice can be given to a Government; it is perverse!