Brown Burke’s attorneys demand apology, compensation from parliamentary leaders

Attorneys representing Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew South Western, Dr Angela Brown Burke, have written to three parliamentary leaders demanding that they apologise for public comments they made last week following an incident inside the House of Representatives after the sitting was adjourned.

The letters were addressed to House Speaker Juliet Holness, Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson and Deputy Senate President Charles Sinclair and were delivered to Gordon House on Tuesday.

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"Your statement constitute a most damaging and offensive libel upon our client as it suggests that she was party to termagant like behaviour, which is not only uncharacteristic, but plainly untrue," said the letter from the law firm Chen Green & Company.