Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

PNM deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has ex­pressed con­cern over the pas­sage of the Gov­ern­ment’s Bail Amend­ment Bill 2026 by a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty, rather than the re­quired spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty, warn­ing that its pro­vi­sions may face le­gal chal­lenges in the courts.

Bood­hu ar­gued that the pub­lic will con­tin­ue to dis­trust the Gov­ern­ment on mat­ters such as this bill—and even its 965 ex­pres­sions of in­ter­est un­der the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Plan—be­cause the Prime Min­is­ter has yet to clar­i­fy al­le­ga­tions that two In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors sought “per­son­al favours” from a Gov­ern­ment sen­a­tor to vote for the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Zones bill.