Three government female parliamentarians have condemned recent remarks made by People’s National Party representative Nekeisha Burchell about House Speaker Juliet Holness, describing the comments as inappropriate, disrespectful and damaging to women in leadership.

Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Finance Minister Fayval Williams, and Member of Parliament Juliet Cuthbert Flynn criticised comments made by Burchell during an episode of The Fix podcast in which she accused the House Speaker of displaying controlling tendencies while enforcing the Standing Orders of Parliament.

“The Speaker is she likes to be in control. And I mean that kind of control that perhaps you can get away with in a marriage if you want to control your husband, for example,” said Burchell, the Member of Parliament for St James Southern.