A motion to censure Randy Horton, the Speaker of the House, is to be postponed, according to Michael Scott of the Progressive Labour Party.

Mr Scott said yesterday afternoon that the motion, which PLP Leader Marc Bean last week predicted for yesterday’s session in the wake of his own censure, was to be held over.

Mr Scott’s motion, brought in March, called on a censure of the Speaker “for bringing the democracy of these Islands of Bermuda and its Parliament into disrepute, by his misconduct of suppressing debate in the House of Assembly.

“The debate was on an amendment to an Opposition motion, of public importance, and in breach of basic tenets of Parliamentary procedure; a) bringing Parliament into disrepute, by his misconduct of refusing to both acknowledge and take a point of order and refusing to allow and hear a point of privilege by the member for Pembroke West Central [David Burt], who rose on a point of privilege, in breach of the Standing Orders of the House ... bringing the Parliament into disrepute, by the misuse and abuse of his authority as Speaker, by ejecting the Member for Pembroke West Central immediately after the Member rose on a point of privilege without any lawful or justifiable grounds to eject the Member; c) displaying a woeful ignorance and lack of understanding of Standing Orders of the House of Assembly and basic Parliamentary procedure thereby bringing the Parliament into disrepute.”