Yesterday, you heard the PM say that the redivision report must follow the process of the House, and that November 2025 is a tight deadline for the redistricting process. He said that for now, they're stalled until the bill goes through its stages.
Of course, that same report has been languishing in the house for 10 months!
Today the media asked Caribbean Shores area rep, Kareem Musa, about it and he said he'd rather hold his comments until the debate.
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"That is a live issue and I would agree that there is an imbalance in terms of some divisions are just extremely large compared to other small divisions so there is definitely a need for a redistricting exercise to take place, whether this proposal coming out from the elections and boundaries team, whether that meets the smell test of satisfying what it is that we are trying to achieve is yet to be seen. We are going to have that matter debated in the House for second reading at the next House meeting next month and so I would like to reserve my comments for that stage but I totally agree with you that we are due a redistricting exercise whether it is that this particular proposal will meet the test is yet to be seen."
