The Op­po­si­tion has for­mal­ly writ­ten to House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh seek­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tion on al­le­ga­tions of bias in­volv­ing par­lia­men­tary staff and con­cerns over the con­duct of Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath.

In a let­ter signed by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and 12 oth­er Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MPs, the Op­po­si­tion said it learned through a news­pa­per re­port that com­plaints had al­leged­ly been made about bias, par­tial­i­ty and pro­fes­sion­al­ism among par­lia­men­tary staff, in­clud­ing claims that mi­cro­phones used by Gov­ern­ment mem­bers were mut­ed dur­ing House pro­ceed­ings.

The Op­po­si­tion said it was not in­formed of any such com­plaints and is now re­quest­ing de­tails on when they were made, who re­ceived them, whether in­ves­ti­ga­tions were car­ried out and what find­ings, if any, were reached.