Fayval says House Speaker has PNP MPs ‘under heavy manners’

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern Fayval Williams has declared that Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness has members of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) under “heavy manners”.

Williams, who is also Minister of Finance and the Public Service, made the remark Thursday evening as she addressed the annual West Kingston Constituency Conference at the Tivoli Gardens High School.

The relationship between the speaker and Opposition members has been testy at best, and antagonistic at worst, as was seen by the near brawl between Government and Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) at the end of the sitting of the House of Representatives on November 3.