Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has writ­ten Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes ad­vis­ing her of the six Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors to be ap­point­ed in ac­cor­dance with sec­tion 40 (1) (b) of the Con­sti­tu­tion

The six are Mr Wade Mark, Ms Jear­lean John, Ms Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al, Mr Dami­an Ly­der, Mr Anil Roberts and Mr David Nakhid.

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Op­po­si­tion Leader:

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion and Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, Mrs Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar, SC, has writ­ten to Her Ex­cel­len­cy Paula-Mae Weekes, ORTT, Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, ad­vis­ing her of the six (6) Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors to be ap­point­ed, in ac­cor­dance with sec­tion 40 (1) (b) of the Con­sti­tu­tion which states:

40.- 1. The Sen­ate shall con­sist of thir­ty-one mem­bers (in this Con­sti­tu­tion re­ferred to as “Sen­a­tors”) who shall be ap­point­ed by the Pres­i­dent in ac­cor­dance with this sec­tion.

b. six shall be ap­point­ed by the Pres­i­dent act­ing in ac­cor­dance with the ad­vice of the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion

To­day, Mrs Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­vised the Pres­i­dent of the fol­low­ing Sen­a­tors and is­sued the fol­low­ing state­ment:

● Mr Wade Mark

● Ms Jear­lean John

● Ms Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al

● Mr Dami­an Ly­der

● Mr Anil Roberts

● Mr David Nakhid

“The Op­po­si­tion in the Sen­ate will be strong, for­mi­da­ble and most im­por­tant­ly they will hold the Gov­ern­ment to ac­count at every junc­ture.

The Op­po­si­tion bench in the Sen­ate will con­tin­ue to de­fend the Con­sti­tu­tion and the rights of all cit­i­zens against any at­tempts to thwart their fun­da­men­tal free­doms. With the ap­point­ment of pa­tri­ots of such a high cal­iber to the Op­po­si­tion Bench, I re­main sat­is­fied that the rights of the peo­ple will be as­sid­u­ous­ly de­fend­ed.

The new six Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors ap­point­ed will con­tin­ue to re­flect the man­date of the UNC, to bring more peo­ple to the de­ci­sion-mak­ing ta­ble. I am hap­py to en­sure that qual­i­fied cit­i­zens are giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to serve the na­tion by con­tribut­ing to good law and hold­ing the Ex­ec­u­tive to ac­count.

The UNC re­mains com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for young peo­ple to lead, as we pre­pare them for the fu­ture.”