At­tor­ney-at-law Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose was to­day sworn in as an Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor, re­plac­ing Janelle John-Bates on the Op­po­si­tion bench in the Sen­ate.

Dr Rose took the oath of of­fice at the start of the Sen­ate sit­ting as the Op­po­si­tion moved to fill a va­can­cy that arose af­ter John-Bates faced se­vere back­lash and re­signed fol­low­ing rev­e­la­tions that she ghost-edit­ed a par­lia­men­tary wit­ness’s state­ment us­ing vis­i­ble “track changes” while serv­ing on the com­mit­tee re­view­ing the mat­ter.

In a state­ment, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) de­scribed Dr Rose as an ac­com­plished at­tor­ney, pub­lic pol­i­cy re­searcher, ed­u­ca­tor and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly re­spect­ed spe­cial­ist in pub­lic pro­cure­ment, gov­er­nance, com­mer­cial law and an­ti-cor­rup­tion sys­tems.