The state of emer­gency will be de­bat­ed at the Par­lia­ment on Sep­tem­ber 2. All elect­ed Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment were ex­pect­ed to re­ceive the state­ment by Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards be­tween 6 pm and 7 pm yes­ter­day. A Gov­ern­ment source dis­closed this yes­ter­day. Speak­er of the House Wade Mark is first ex­pect­ed to re­ceive the state­ment which is then pre­sent­ed to the elect­ed mem­bers.

The de­bate is sched­uled to be­gin at 10 am. On Sun­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced a state of emer­gency. Ac­cord­ing to the Sec­tion 9 (1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion, with­in three days of the mak­ing of the Procla­ma­tion, the Pres­i­dent shall de­liv­er to the Speak­er for pre­sen­ta­tion to the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives a state­ment set­ting out the spe­cif­ic grounds on which the de­ci­sion to de­clare the ex­is­tence of a state of pub­lic emer­gency was based.