The much anticipated report on the realignment of boundaries and increase in the number of constituencies was tabled in Parliament Wednesday, but not without its share of heated exchanges between government and opposition members. So intense was the debate that two St Catherine members of parliament stormed out. Among other things the recommendations from the electoral commission would add one new constituency in the Spanish Town area and one in the Portmore area. This would mean crossing municipalities something the elected representatives from St. Catherine were trying to avoid. South west St. Catherine MP Everald Warmington objected to the recommendations, questioning the rationale of having parish boundary advisory committee meetings when their proposals were not taken into consideration. Mr. Warmington argued that based on the new numbers there cannot be a parish council election because in one St. Catherine division there are over 14 thousand voters, while in others there are just over one thousand voters.
East central St. Andrew MP Dr. Peter Phillips informed the MPs that they should have been explicit in their recommendations to the ECJ to avoid the situation. Based on the arrangements if there is unanimous agreement the ECJ would accept, however if the parish boundary committee did not settle it would then be left up to the ECJ to decide. Despite Warmington's argument of an imbalance, Karl Samuda told the house that the recommendations are agreements in principle, and have not been fully finalised. Leader of opposition business Andrew Holness attempted to move on with the business of parliament but was stopped in his tracks by a defiant MP Warmington who called for the house to recognise that the vote was not unanimous as was being said by the house speaker. Despite the best attempts of his fellow government members to calm an irate mr. Warmington off he went, with Fitz Jackson close behind.