Leg­is­la­tors will de­bate a pri­vate mo­tion seek­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of tan­gi­ble memo­ri­als for and con­tri­bu­tions of for­mer Pres­i­dents and Prime Min­is­ters. De­bate on the mo­tion, brought by In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Corinne Bap­tiste-McK­night, is ex­pect­ed to re­sume when the Sen­ate meets at 1.30 pm to­day. The mo­tion is al­so seek­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of a state-fund­ed arrange­ment that al­lows for the con­tri­bu­tions of all who served in the two of­fices to be recog­nised.

There are sev­er­al ques­tions list­ed for oral re­ply, in­clud­ing one from Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds. He wants to know whether Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's sis­ter, Vid­watie New­ton, is em­ployed as her per­son­al as­sis­tant at the of­fi­cial res­i­dence and/or the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann's. Hinds al­so wants to know if New­ton was em­ployed as a "live-in" per­son­al as­sis­tant at the Gopauls' home in Tu­na­puna while Per­sad-Bisses­sar was stay­ing there.