GAIL ALEXAN­DER

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

The fourth ses­sion of the 12th Par­lia­ment will be launched at the Red House, Port-of-Spain, at 1.30 pm on Mon­day.

In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, the Par­lia­ment stat­ed that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo had is­sued a procla­ma­tion for the pro­ro­ga­tion of the cur­rent third ses­sion of the Par­lia­ment. That ses­sion ends at mid­night tonight (Fri­day).

A procla­ma­tion has al­so been is­sued for the launch of the fourth ses­sion at 1.30 pm on Mon­day. Par­lia­ment con­firmed that the event will be a cer­e­mo­ni­al launch.

Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo will in­spect a guard of ho­n­our out­side the Par­lia­ment build­ing and will lat­er ad­dress a joint sit­ting of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the Sen­ate.

It will be Kan­ga­loo’s first ad­dress to the Par­lia­ment as Pres­i­dent.

She was Sen­ate Pres­i­dent be­fore be­com­ing Pres­i­dent.

The Pres­i­dent’s ad­dress to both Hous­es of Par­lia­ment is ex­pect­ed to be de­liv­ered in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives’ North Cham­ber.

This will be the first time that Cham­ber will be used, af­ter it was closed last No­vem­ber for re­pairs to its air con­di­tion­ing duct and some dec­o­ra­tive mould­ing which fell due to some con­den­sa­tion is­sues.

Re­pairs were com­plet­ed be­tween May and June and the Cham­ber was deep-cleaned and pre­pared. It was re­cent­ly de­scribed by Ude­cott as be­ing ready for oc­cu­pan­cy.

Be­fore the Pres­i­dent’s ad­dress, it is ex­pect­ed that each House will meet in their re­spec­tive cham­bers—the Sen­ate in the South Cham­ber and the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the North Cham­ber, be­fore Sen­a­tors join their par­lia­men­tary col­leagues in the North Cham­ber for Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo’s fea­ture ad­dress.

Mem­bers of the ju­di­cia­ry and the diplo­mat­ic corps are al­so ex­pect­ed to at­tend.