Change Pending for National Honours Committee

The government is reducing by one the number of persons it nominates to be
members of the National Honours Committee.
Highly placed government sources revealed that the Cabinet of Antigua and
Barbuda has accepted a recommendation to this effect. The sources say the
current law prescribes a composition of the committee where the government
nominates four of its seven members; the opposition nominates two and the
Governor General nominates the other.
However, the government now seems persuaded that a case has been made to
bring more balance to the process by reducing by one the government’s
nominees to the committee.
“In order to bring more balance to the composition of the Honours Committee,
legislation will be taken to the Parliament to reduce the number of members
appointed by the government from four to three. Civil society will then be given
the right to nominate a member of the Honours Committee,” according to the
sources.
The amendment that will go before the parliament will prescribe the new
composition of the National Honours Committee.