A new commission has been created to review the current structure and function of Parliament, with a mandate to provide recommendations on how the governing body could be transformed to better suit the country’s needs.This announcement was made by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Dale Marshall during a post-Cabinet press briefing on Friday at Ilaro Court.Marshall told media personnel that the new Parliamentary Reform Commission (PRC) has the singular focus of examining Parliament as it presently stands, and determining what changes could be implemented to make it better.“This Parliamentary Reform Commission is not being established for the purpose of looking into terms and conditions of parliamentarians, that is not what it is about. It may consider those issues but this is to review what Parliament is, how it functions, whether or not it can be better made up, whether or not we should have an Upper House or a Lower House, whether or not we should have parliamentarians elected by all of Barbados rather than just constituencies… All of these matters are going to be under the purview of this commission,” he said.The new commission will be chaired by prominent local attorney and former President of the Senate, Sir Richard Cheltenham. The other members  include Sir Roy Trotman as Deputy Chair, Ambassador Elizabeth Thompson; Dr Richard Ishmael, noted cardiologist; Professor Velma Newton, historian and attorney-at-law; William Chandler, columnist along with former Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Democratic Labour Party, Maxine McClean, and Corrie Beckles on behalf of the former Opposition People’s Party for Democracy and Development (PdP).