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Compass News – 8 May 2025
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Cayman Compass
New MPs get straight to work in Parliament
A day after being sworn into office, Cayman’s new MPs on Wednesday got down to business by selecting members for parliamentary committees and delivering their post-election speeches of thanks.
At that meeting, it was determined that opposition MPs will make up the majority of members of the Public Accounts Committee, the body that holds government accountable for how it spends its money.
Of the six members of the committee, four will come from the opposition benches — independent Chris Saunders and three PPM representatives, Roy McTaggart, Kenneth Bryan and Roy Tatum, with McTaggart as chairman. The other two members will be government MPs Julie Hunter and Wayne Panton.
Ezzard Miller, in his new role as speaker of Parliament, oversaw the formation of the Public Accounts Committee, which he himself chaired for many years, as well as the House Committee, the Select Committee on Privileges, and the Select Committee for the Oversight of the Office of the Ombudsman.
