National Assembly Meetings to Be Held at George Price Centre For 12 Months 

The much smaller George Price Center will not be able to accommodate a public gallery inside the building. Speaker Woods explained that special accommodations will be made for the public and the media. She gave further insight into the proposed layout for House and Senate meetings.

 

Valerie Woods, Speaker, House of Representative

“If you have been to the George Price Center you would appreciate the limitations there, but it is for practical purposes. The most realistic area for us to go to is to keep expenses down but at the same time the function of parliament is not interrupted. So, it won’t have space for a public gallery but if there is public viewing the intention is to have it outside under a tent with a digital screen. Inside we are using mostly the upstairs, the first floor, the main auditorium, would be what the chamber is. It will have its two-member room, the chamber and a small space there for the media. And then, on the other side of that there will be the staff administrative workspace. Downstairs in one of the one remaining meeting rooms would be what the committee room is for the National Assembly. The museum for the father of the nation, that remains, but that would be the main quarters for administrative team for the center. That would be their office and continued program for the year.”