Tracey Taegar-Panton announces she will miss today’s House meeting

Published by BBNTEAM at October 17, 2022

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Posted: Monday, October 17, 2022. 9:07 am CST.

By Aaron Humes: It is unusual for most members of the House of Representatives to miss a meeting, and even rarer for them to announce they will do so publicly.

But addressing residents of her Albert constituency today, area representative Tracey Taegar-Panton said she was “unable” to attend proceedings in Belmopan, which had been postponed from Friday.

“Dear Albert Residents: This is to advise that I am unable to attend today’s Sitting of the House of Representatives Meeting scheduled for 10:00 AM at the National Assembly Building in Belmopan. This meeting was previously scheduled for Friday, October 14th, 2022 and was postponed. As provided for in Standing Order (84), I have written to the Clerk of National Assembly advising him of my inability to attend. I have also advised the Speaker of the House and our UDP Party Leader of same,” Taegar-Panton wrote on social media without giving further detail.

The Opposition’s benches have been thinned by repeated absences from Hugo Patt and Patrick Faber, with neither guaranteed to appear today – in the latter’s case because of the recent allegations made against him – and the perennial absence of Queen’s Square’s Denise Barrow.

Leader of the Opposition Moses “Shyne” Barrow on the other hand has never missed a House meeting to date.

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