This is irksome and tragic….we need better quality leadership than this. One in a position of authority should handle himself with a certain decorum, his influence with caution…this is a shameful display of immaturity and disrespect for his office, the government and the people….this show of machismo was unnecessary and frankly scary. The following is a long winded response to a question posed by Julius Espat.
Dean Barrow
“Mr. Speaker, as I believe you pointed out, he has to learn that in fact in here you and the standing orders govern and so he needs to learn these standing orders. He needs to try to educate himself; he needs to try to school himself so that he may be able to apply the standing orders to his duty. This is what forms the matrix of his representation and when he does that he will perhaps learn how properly to ask questions in order to get the answers that he seeks. Now, why have I engaged in this fairly long, prefatory introduction? Because you see Mr. Speaker, in terms of his question, I can say categorically that Ambassador Mark Espat has been appointed as an ambassador for economic affairs without any kind of remuneration. He gets no salary at all, no pay for that. With respect to the Debt Renegotiation Team, this is where the member gets into trouble. If he had the wit and sense and if he had perhaps studied his standing orders he might have framed his question differently because, you see, as he has put it down the short answer is that Mark Espat also gets absolutely no money, no pay, no remuneration for his work with the Debt Renegotiation Team. There is a company called Hallmark Advisory Ltd. and it’s with that entity that the government has entered into a contract. You may have framed, you might have, as I said if you had the wit and sense, you might have framed your question in such a way that I could have given you the answer. But since you asked specifically whether Mark Espat is being paid the short answer is no. Now you can come back next time and ask me about the professional rates of fees that are part of the contract with Hallmark Advisory and I will be more than happy to give the answer to you but yoh know how ears hard pickney haffi go da market two times, wheel and come again.”
Mein….leave all that posturin for the dancehall…pull up yu pantz G.
Twocanview LLC 
Having read this I thought it was extremely enlightening.
I appreciate you taking the time and energy to put this short
article together. I once again find myself spending
a lot of time both reading and posting comments. But so what, it was still worth it!
When it comes to posturing and spewing fiery political rhetoric…our current PM can hang with the best of them…ahem…make that the ‘worst’ of them. In true political form, he can come across as an articulate intellectual and then turn around and become just another arrogant over-paid attorney with no need for small, ‘uneducated’ people. Its obvious he’s dodging an important question by resorting to ‘grandoise’ words and he should just answer the damn question…and while he’s at it he should answer many questions as the Leader of our country. Our leaders routinely make a mockery of the house…its a bloody shame if you ask me
I’ll take articulate intellectual for $1000 Alex!
FAC
I have no idea what this man is trying to say and I doubt if he does. Sounds like a bunch of political BS to me.