Opposition Leader Mark Golding is today (June 6) renewing calls for a review of the tabled 2021 Impeachment Bill (Amendment), offering what he considers a ‘solution’ to the latest developments in the George Wright saga.

Golding, reacting like the Jamaican public to Wright’s ‘very intent’ stance to remain as Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Westmoreland, felt that more substantive action should and must be taken.

“There is something that can be done. Let’s have a Joint Select [Committee] review the Impeachment Bill (Amendment) 2021 that I tabled in Parliament; then let’s debate and pass it into law so that it becomes part of our Constitution, bringing accountability for all parliamentarians,” he tweeted.

Golding tabled the parliamentary bill on April 28—reviving the legislation from a 10-year slumber in the wake of the assault allegations against Wright.

Golding’s move cleared the way for debate on the bill to begin, however, a timeline was not immediately forthcoming. The bill would also need a parliamentary majority vote as well as assent of Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen.

The Impeachment Bill, which could see a sitting MP stripped of his/her position once enough votes were cast, also allows for legislators to be censured or barred from holding some public offices.

The bill languished for years after it was first tabled by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck in 2011, falling off the agenda items in the subsequent Portia Simpson Miller and Andrew Holness administrations.

The embattled George Wright has neither confirmed nor denied his alleged involvement in viral assault footage captured on closed-circuit television (CCTV).

Even amid echoing calls for him to resign as the elected representative of the constituency, Wright, now an independent MP, officially cut ties with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on Friday.