Sittings of Parliament should be rotated

THE EDITOR: The incipient moving debate on moving parliament is moving my bowels! 

The sole purpose of any parliament is to do its best for us, the people of Trinidad and Tobago;  which, translated into reality, means that it does its best for those who voted it into power, the higher you are up the hierarchy the more there is in it for you, the outsiders, too, sharing in the largesse but limited to what remains after the higher echelon party-members’ hunger is appeased — that is unchangeable, regardless where parliament sits. Where should parliament sit? 

Here’s the answer. Members of parliament have a duty to report to their constituents, to those who voted them in, and how better than by parliament sitting in members’ constituencies? Its mechanics.  The sittings of parliament will be rotated between the total number of constituencies.  The member of parliament for the constituency where parliament sits will decide where it will sit.  That’s it. Thus, but a small innovative twist to how we apply our democracy, our native home-grown democracy, could well result in a giant step towards the practical participation in the process of democracy of all the peoples of Trinidad and Tobago.

Bernard Martinez
8 First Avenue
Cascade