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FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert said on Wednesday that Ministry of Energy staff were trying to determine the source of an incident of oil pollution after having found small amounts of oil, responding to an urgent question in the Senate by Opposition Senator Wade Mark after an online post of a truck dumping oil into the
RURAL Development and Local Government Minister Faris Al-Rawi said the Privy Council acknowledged the efforts to undertake meaningful local government reform. Al-Rawi made this observation in his contribution to debate on the Municipal Corporations (Extension of Terms of Office and Validation) Bill 2023 in the Senate on Wednesday. In its judgment on May 18, the
THE Senate passed the Municipal Corporations (Extension of Terms of Office and Validation) Bill 2023 on Wednesday. The bill was passed with an additional amendment to it. When the House of Representatives first debated the bill on Monday, it was amended before it was passed. That amendment, to clause five of the bill, validated the
Opposition Senator Wade Mark said the May18 Privy Council judgment that December's extension of the life of local government bodies by a year, was unlawful, was a signal to the PNM that it cannot do as it pleases. He spoke in the Senate on Tuesday before the Upper House rejected a private motion on parliamentary
INDEPENDENT Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh has said he felt a little ashamed to be a parliamentarian after the May 18 Privy Council judgment which said last December's extension of the life of local government bodies by a year was unlawful. Deyalsingh was speaking in the debate on a private motion on parliamentary autonomy in the