As the Sen­ate de­bates the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad has crit­i­cised the Op­po­si­tion for ab­stain­ing from last week’s vote in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

Of the 41 MPs, 27—in­clud­ing UNC mem­bers and both To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) MPs—vot­ed in favour of the bill. Eleven Op­po­si­tion MPs present chose to ab­stain.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew, Dr Ram­per­sad clar­i­fied that she was not ad­vo­cat­ing for any po­lit­i­cal par­ty, but ar­gued the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) still ap­pears to mis­un­der­stand the rea­sons be­hind its crush­ing April 2025 elec­tion de­feat.