A procedural objection gagged before it could be spoken. A call for a recorded vote the Chair “did not hear”. A first-term MP warned across the floor not to cross a Government minister’s path “or else”. The Opposition says Tuesday’s sitting was no aberration — it was a pattern.

KINGSTON, Jamaica —By Calvin G. Brown | July 6, 2026 - Something is fraying at the heart of Gordon House, and the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has decided to name it.

In a strongly worded statement following Tuesday’s sitting of the House of Representatives, the party described the proceedings as “the latest in a troubling pattern of procedural inconsistency, selective enforcement of the Standing Orders, and conduct that undermines Parliament’s constitutional role” as Jamaica’s principal forum for accountability, scrutiny and debate.