“…There had been little research on parliamentary oversight in the Caribbean. Hamid Ghany (1994Ghany ( , 1999Ghany ( , 2012 has written extensively on parliaments in the region, but his work has examined parliaments from an evolutionary and institutional perspective, rather than from a functional one. A few other scholars have focused on specific issues, such as human rights (Helfer, 2002), gender (Vassell, 2006), and constitutional matters (Barrow-Giles, 2010), but to date, little research has been undertaken on oversight.…”