Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark again cast his de­cid­ing vote last night in a chaot­ic end­ing to se­cure pas­sage of Gov­ern­ment’s Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Amend­ment Bill.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira says it will take “a lot more than holy wa­ter and mantras” to get him to sup­port the Gov­ern­ment’s Pro­cure­ment Bill, as he fired back at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar by turn­ing her de­scrip­tion of in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors as “sa­tan­ic” and “de­mon­ic” back on the Gov­ern­ment dur­ing yes­ter­day’s Sen­ate de­bate.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has called up­on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to with­draw her dis­parag­ing re­marks against the coun­try’s in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Phillip Alexan­der has pushed back against the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) af­ter it called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to with­draw re­marks she made about in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors fol­low­ing their re­jec­tion of the Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill.