In response to a letter from Carlos Simons QC, HE Governor Todd responded to the rules of Chair outlined in the following sent to RTC news:
Dear Mr Simons,
Thank you for your letter of 22 May.
Everyone on TCI is entitled to hold and express opinions and debate issues, including “hot button political” ones.
I do not think that anything that the Chair said at the session of the Consultative Forum on 21 May contravened either the Constitutional Order setting up the Consultative Forum nor its rules of procedure. As I have set out, membership of the Advisory Council and the Consultative Forum is incompatible with being a candidate for elected office. It is not, and never has been, incompatible with holding and expressing opinions. Mrs Misick is not, unlike Mrs Cartwright-Robinson and Mrs Delancy a declared candidate for elected political office.
If you wish to challenge, disagree with or object to any comments made by the Chair of the Consultative Forum you are of course free to do so.
Yours sincerely,
D R Todd
D R Todd
Governor
