A bill prepared by a team of independent counsels who are advising Speaker of the House of Assembly Halson Moultrie seeks to put Parliament directly in control of its budget and loosen the Cabinet’s stranglehold on the administrative functions of the legislature. 

Moultrie’s team of legal experts includes Dame Joan Sawyer, former president of the Court of Appeal; Fred Smith, QC; Maurice Glinton, QC; Obie Ferguson, attorney and trade unionist; Kelphene Cunningham, former registrar general and vice president of the Industrial Tribunal; and Kahlil Parker, president of the Bahamas Bar Association.

He previously called the role of the attorney general as the sole legal advisor to the Parliament an “adulterous relationship that is forbidden by the very concept of the separation of powers and tenets of Westminster”.

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