This section highlights some of the reasons for which
persons may desire to visit the Parliament and gives details on how
to properly go about doing so.
The Parliament offers tours to individuals and schools
wishing to know more about the department and its work. These tours
are conducted by officers of the Department versed in its operations.
Arrangements must be made, preferrably in writing, before a tour is
carried out.
Generally, tours are held on non-meeting days
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Admission to the Public Galleries is a privilege extended
by Parliament, and strangers attending must conform with established
forms of behaviour and dress. All persons entering the Chamber must,
at all times, be dressed tidily. Accordingly, the following are not
allowed:
- Armhole T-shirts;
- Slippers;
- Short pants;
- The displaying of signs or banners;
- Apparel with Party emblems displayed thereon;
- Apparel with obscene prints;
- Track pants;
- Men must remove their hats upon entering the Chamber.
Strangers visiting Parliament are presumed to do so
for the purpose of listening to debates. It is therefore discourteous
for them not to devote their full attention to the proceedings. The
following is strongly prohibited:-
- Eating;
- Drinking;
- Loud laughing;
- Conversing;
- Applauding;
- Sleeping;
- Reading;
- Writing [other than at the Press Table];
- Taking of photographs while the sitting is in progress;
- Walking about;
- Standing;
- Sitting backward;
- Smoking;
- Jeering;
- Video-taping [other than the authorised media];
- Audio-recording [other than the authorised media];
- Using cellular phones, pagers, or any other communication device
that may disrupt the proceedings.
Additionally, Members are not to be harassed in any
way, in the performance of their duties, and no form of disruption,
disturbance or obstruction is permitted.
Once the Presiding Officer is on his/her feet, no person is
permitted to walk. Those in the process of walking when he/she rises
must stand in their places until the Presiding Officer resumes sitting.
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It is possible on some days for groups to tour the Parliament, and
receive a brief orientation on the Red House
as well as the work of the Parliament. It is imperative that these sessions
are pre-arranged in order to ensure that there is no conflict with the
schedule of the Parliament. Here are the general rules for visits to
the Parliament Chamber.
- Requests are to be made in writing to the Office of the Clerk of
the House at least one week in advance of the proposed
visit. (View the Contact Us section
for the address.)
- Mondays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. are the days
and times scheduled for visits to the Parliament Chamber on non-meeting
days. Please note that these days are subject to change in the event
that there is a sitting of either House of Parliament
- A maximum of fifty students, accompanied by three or four teachers,
are allowed at any one time on non-meeting days.
- On meeting days a maximum of thirty students, accompanied by two
or three teachers, are allowed at any one sitting of either House
of Parliament, and students are to be seated at least fifteen (15)
minutes before the start of the sitting.
- There is to be no visit to the Parliament Chamber during budget
debates.
- There is to be no eating or drinking in the Chamber at anytime.
- Vehicles used by tour groups are NOT to be parked
along any of the streets surrounding the Red House. Parking on these
streets is prohibited.
- Persons visiting Parliament are kindly asked to dress appropriately.
Jerseys/tee shirts, short pants, track pants, sandals and slippers
are NOT allowed.
N.B. Visits to the Parliament Chamber are privileges extended
by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
These privileges can be curtailed at anytime if the above-mentioned
rules are not strictly adhered to.
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