In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Corinne Bap­tiste-McK­night has threat­ened not to vote for the re­peal of Sec­tion 34 of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act un­til she is giv­en a rea­son why the clause was tak­en out of the act. Speak­ing at the sit­ting of the Sen­ate yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, she called on Gov­ern­ment Cab­i­net mem­bers, sit­ting di­rect­ly across from her, to an­swer why. Bap­tiste-McK­night said: "The coun­try needs to know why it was so im­por­tant for this par­tic­u­lar clause to be tak­en out of this act and pro­claimed on In­de­pen­dence Day."

She prof­fered this might have been done to fa­cil­i­tate the re­lease of 50 pris­on­ers as promised by Min­is­ter of Jus­tice Her­bert Vol­ney as part of the gift to the na­tion in cel­e­bra­tion of the coun­try's gold­en ju­bilee of In­de­pen­dence. Bap­tiste-McK­night al­so chid­ed Vol­ney for his ab­sence in the Sen­ate, say­ing it was a good thing he was not there to be em­bar­rassed. She ques­tioned whether or not he would have been em­bar­rassed. She said: "In a mo­ment of in­de­cent haste some­one took a note to Cab­i­net to get this bill pro­claimed." The ques­tion of why al­so was posed by Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors Fitzger­ald Hinds and Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.