Op­po­si­tion Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal said the Op­po­si­tion is not sup­port­ing the Ev­i­dence Amend­ment Bill which will be de­bat­ed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Fri­day.

The Bill was passed in the Sen­ate re­cent­ly mi­nus Op­po­si­tion sup­port.

The Bill, geared to aid the crim­i­nal jus­tice and crime fight­ing sys­tem, fa­cil­i­tates ad­mis­sion of ev­i­dence via CCTV and oth­er elec­tron­ic forms to be used in courts, caters for ev­i­dence by people un­der 18 and wit­ness­es and al­so cre­ates safe­ty for ev­i­dence.

The Bill, which had ini­tial­ly re­quired a spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty vote for pas­sage, was amend­ed. Its cur­rent form can now be passed by a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty and doesn’t re­quire Op­po­si­tion votes. But Mooni­lal said the UNC re­mains con­sis­tent with its ini­tial op­po­si­tion to the Bill "and our le­gal minds will speak on it to­day.”