{"id":249603,"date":"2021-05-24T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testwp23.newsmemory.com\/nationnews\/news\/?p=249603"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:00:07","slug":"republican-status-transition-advisory-committee-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationnews.com\/2021\/05\/24\/republican-status-transition-advisory-committee-formed\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Status Transition Advisory Committee formed"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cabinet on Saturday announced the establishment of a Republican Status Transition Advisory Committee to help plan and manage the transition from a monarchial to a republican system.<\/p>\n
Committee members are Dr Marion Williams\u00a0GCM<\/strong>\u00a0(chair), Reverend Dr John Rogers, Lolita Applewaithe, Chereda Grannum, Suleiman Bulbulia, The Most Honourable Patrick Frost, Shirley Bell, Cyndi Marshall, Adrian Green and Cecille Humphrey. Acting Cabinet Secretary Hughland Allman will be responsible for servicing the committee.<\/p>\n A press release yesterday from the\u00a0Barbados Government Information Service<\/strong>\u00a0said that Barbados had two previous constitutional review commissions in 1977 and 1994, headed by Sir Mencea Cox and Sir Henry Forde, respectively.<\/p>\n Sir Henry Forde\u2019s Commission recommended the manner in which the country should settle all of the arrangements for the President.<\/p>\n Over the next few weeks, the public will be given an opportunity to send their ideas to the Committee and to attend its public meetings.\u00a0(CM\/PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cabinet on Saturday announced the establishment of a Republican Status Transition Advisory Committee to help plan and manage the transition from a monarchial to a republican system. Committee members are Dr Marion Williams\u00a0GCM\u00a0(chair), Reverend Dr John Rogers, Lolita Applewaithe, Chereda Grannum, Suleiman Bulbulia, The Most Honourable Patrick Frost, Shirley Bell, Cyndi Marshall, Adrian Green and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":232004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[506],"tags":[15,673,14314],"yoast_head":"\n