Earlier in the newscast, you saw Eamon Courtenay speaking on the latest judgment coming out of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
We also asked him about the final report that the Senate Special Select Committee is trying to prepare following the last year's Senate Hearings on Immigration. You'll remember the 13-month marathon of hearings that dominated the evening news every Wednesday. Allegations and counter allegations of corruption and hustling at the department between 2011 and 2013 were discussed in surprisingly candid detail.
But, it appears that the Senate Committee Members underestimated just how much work it would take to review those hundreds of hours of testimony they witnessed.
Today, Courtenay told us that all the transcription and review of the thousands of pages produced from those hearings are almost complete, and the final draft report from the Senate Select Committee should be a ready to table their report shortly:
Eamon Courtenay, PUP Senator
"As I understand it the final draft or the draft is in the final stages and will be shared with the committee for us to review. Hopefully in not too distant future it will be released or tabled in the Senate, I guess debated and then of course made public. We have been assured by the attorney who has been working on it that it is in its final stages."
Reporter
"No timeline at to when we might possibly start seeing it?"
Eamon Courtenay, PUP Senator
"I expect within a few days. Probably this week. That's the impression I have."
Reporter
"Are you satisfied with the way that process has gone?"
Eamon Courtenay, PUP Senator
"First of all there are thousands upon thousands and thousands of pages of transcript to review. So I think that whilst the public viewed it, every word was being recorded and now has been transcribed and has to be reviewed; literally gone over to make sure that the report is comprehensive, that it is proper. That has taken a lot more time that we had anticipated. I believe that our attorney is working diligently. The committee is working as diligently as it can. To be frank it took more time than we anticipated but we are assured that we are reaching the end."
As soon as the final report is released publicly, we'll start to drill down into it.
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