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Gov­ern­ment’s mo­tion to ex­tend the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) for three more months—un­til June—will be de­bat­ed in Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon.

Gov­ern­ment House leader Bar­ry Padarath con­firmed this yes­ter­day. He said mat­ters to be de­bat­ed are the Civ­il Di­vi­sion bill, the Law Re­vi­sion amend­ment bill, the Pres­i­dent’s March 3 procla­ma­tion of the SoE and the mo­tion to ex­tend the SoE.

Padarath al­so said de­bate will not nec­es­sar­i­ly be in that or­der. The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) on Wednes­day com­plained that the SoE mat­ters were list­ed last and might be de­bat­ed late at night in the sit­ting.