Montserrat Represented At The 3rd Annual Commons Overseas Territories Speakers Conference In The TCI

Montserrat participated in the 3rd Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) which was held in the Turks and Caicos Islands from 3 to 5 April 2024.
Speaker of the Montserrat Legislative Assembly Honorable Charliena White and Clerk of Council, Dr. Judith Baker attended the conference. 

It was hosted by the Speaker of the Turks and Caicos House of Assembly, Hon. Gordon Burton, MHA in Providenciales and Grand Turk.

Speakers and Clerks attended from Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, St Helena and Turks and Caicos as well as the United Kingdom. 

At this year’s Conference, the Speakers, alongside Parliamentary Clerks and technical experts, examined different aspects of building strong Legislatures and effective parliamentary democracy focusing on AI, Cyber and Physical Security of Parliaments and on Parliamentary Education and Outreach.

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Head of Programmes, Matthew Salik provided expertise on protocol and precedent as it relates to Commonwealth Speakers.

He also used the Conference as an opportunity to promote the CPA’s recent publication ‘Parliamentary Handbook on Disinformation, AI and Synthetic Media’.