Senate roll call
published:
Sunday | September 14, 2008
Dorothy Lightbourne and A.J. Nicholson - file photos
PRESIDENT OF the Senate Oswald Harding and government colleague, Arthur Willams, have been model citizens in the Upper House.
Both legislators have not missed a single Senate sitting between September 27 last year, when the Upper House first sat, and July 25, when it went on summer recess. The Senate sat 25 times during this period.
Leader of Government Business, Dorothy Lightbourne, fellow Government senator, Hyacinth Bennett, as well as Opposition Senator A.J. Nicholson, have had only a single blot on their attendance records.
Nicholson, who is leader of Opposition business, could teach colleagues Noel Sloley, Basil Waite and Navel Clarke a bit about attendance. Waite has missed nine sittings, while Clarke has missed eight, and Sloley 10.
Likewise, Government senators Ronald Robinson and Tom Tavares-Finson might take lessons from their Opposition colleagues. Tavares-Finson has been absent eight times, the same as Robinson, who is minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.
Meanwhile, Government senator, Trevor MacMillan, who replaced Ian Murray, has missed three of a possible 10 sittings that have been held since his installation.
