House Goes at It Over Auditor General Position  

As expected, the House of Representatives meeting was filled with heated exchanges. The debate over Maria Rodriquez’s potential appointment as Auditor General saw plenty of mudslinging. Henry Charles Usher, the Area Representative for Fort George, mocked Barrow for questioning qualifications while holding an honorary master’s degree himself. Prime Minister Briceño also joined the fray, adding his own comments to the lively discussion.

 

Henry Charles Usher, Area Rep., Fort George

“While he came here and talk about and try to create the impression that the qualifications that Ms. Rodriquez has is unsubstantiated. But what I can inform the leader of the opposition is that it is a fact that the whole country knows that the doctorate he claims to have is not in his possession. That he cannot show the country at any point. He wants to about qualification.”

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“On a point of order, I have an honorary doctorate from the University of Liberia.”

 

Henry Charles Usher

“It is also a fact in his own party that they have asked him for his high school diploma which he cannot produce as yet.”

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“I was listening to the leader of the opposition, at least one of the leader of the opposite.”

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow

“On a point of order, there is only one leader of the opposition according to the constitution. I remember you knocked your head when you get into that accident. So I have to correct you.”

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“I just can’t understand this young man, to come here with this kind of behavior in this house and go after a public service a woman that has served this country well all over this place, just because he wants to score some political points. I just hope women across this country hear how he went after a woman, a well qualified woman.”