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Following Friday's suspension of opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Senator, Marlene Malahoo Forte from the upper house, the opposition Senators are scheduled to convene a meeting about the matter.
Leader of Opposition Business, Senator Tom Tavares Finson, is outraged at the suspension by Senate President Floyd Morris. According to Tavares Finson, Malahoo Forte was not given the opportunity to address the matter.
Tavares Finson states that the position of the opposition Senators will be presented following the meeting.
“We will meet in a caucus on Monday and decide what we are going to do. AS leader of opposition business in the Senate I will hear what my colleagues have to say,” he said.
However, the Senate President is stoutly defending his decision to suspend Malahoo-Forte.
He insists that he had no choice based on her delay in handing over a letter to him as promised.
The decision has ignited a firestorm in the Senate, as it is believed that matter did not rise to the level of requiring such serious sanctions.
Morris is suggesting that the delay in handing over the letter was avoidable.
Yesterday (Thursday) I requested the letter and I never got it, this morning (Friday), I requested the letter and I never got it. The member is sending to tell me that I can go ahead and adjourn the Senate and she will get it to me,” the Senate President said.
He also sought to address the complaint that Malahoo Forte was not in the Chamber when he handed down the suspension.
“I am not aware - when I was going out of the Chamber I heard Senator Tom Tavares Finson shouting that the member was being suspended without her being in the Senate ……” he said.