Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has called on House Speaker Wade Mark to immediately recuse himself from attending two forthcoming parliamentary delegation assignments in Cuba and Australia.
In a release yesterday, Rowley said in light of the current scandal and odium into which Mark has brought the House he must immediately recuse himself from those assignments.
“Failure to do so now is to further humiliate the Parliament and by extension the country,” Rowley said.
At last Friday’s sitting of the House Mark was quoted as saying: “I received only a few hours ago a notice from the High Court of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, dated January 16, 2015, a matter involving Larry Howai and Azard Ali of the Sunshine Publishing Company.”
But in a subsequent press release, Mark admitted he made a mistake in the statements he made in Parliament on Independent Liberal Party MP Jack Warner’s motion of censure against Finance Minister Larry Howai.
Warner’s no-confidence motion against Howai collapsed after Warner was cautioned by Mark about heading in the wrong direction and the full requirements for the motion were not completed after Warner walked out of the Parliament that day.
But in a subsequent interview Rowley said the best apology Mark could do was to resign.