Brown Burke’s acceptance of wrongdoing incomplete, apology required, says JLP

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Jamaica Observer

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Communication Chairman, Senator Abka Fitz-Henley says PNP Chairman and St Andrew South West Member of Parliament, Angela Brown-Burke has not gone far enough by accepting that she breached the rules of the Parliament by removing the parliamentary mace on Tuesday.READ: ‘I was wrong but..’Fitz-Henley says Brown-Burke should apologise to the people of Jamaica whose business she delayed, the Parliament and House Speaker, Juliet Holness.Angela Brown- Burke's acceptance that she blundered is not good enough in the absence of an apology for bringing the Parliament into disrepute and delaying debate on an important bill which is intended to bring assistance quickly to the people of Jamaica who have been badly impacted by Hurricane Melissa, said Fitz-Henley.He added “Brown Burke should apologise to the people of Jamaica whose business she delayed, the speaker and the Parliament, and I tell you what, members of the PNP, including their leader, who stood when the marshall was directed to do his duties, they have some accounting to do as well.Fitz-Henley also questioned the approach of the PNP to addressing matters which concern the people of Jamaica.I suspect that Mrs Brown-Burke was forced into accepting that she was wrong by the continued public backlash that she's facing, but her behaviour on Tuesday is indicative of a continuation of misconduct and an unserious approach by the PNP and its members to treating with the business of the people of Jamaica.