INDEPENDENT Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh expressed alarm over individuals in this country injecting animal hormones (steroids) to try to enhance their physiques, on Monday as the Senate debated the Anti-Doping in Sports (Amendment) Bill, 2023. The bill lets TT comply with the standards of the World Anti-Doping Code. Tracing a history of the World Anti-Doping
INDEPENDENT Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh said he would not support a bill to turn Siparia and Diego Martin into boroughs, speaking on Tuesday in the Senate on the Miscellaneous Provisions (Establishment of the Borough of Diego Martin and Borough of Siparia) Bill, 2021. He asked whether the cost of converting the two regional corporations into
As debate continued on the Miscellaneous Provisions (Trial By Judge Alone) Bill, 2023 on Friday, several independent senators expressed dissatisfaction with clauses of the bill. Major parts of the bill state: a person shall be judged by judge alone except if they want to be tried by a jury, with the court so directing in
THE Parliament's State Enterprises joint select committee (JSC) will hold a virtual meeting with officials from ExporTT Limited from 10 am on March 13.
APART from a meeting of the Electoral College on January 20, to elect a successor to outgoing President Paula-Mae Weekes, no other parliamentary sittings or meetings of any kind are scheduled to take place at this time.