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The Gov­ern­ment is now look­ing to in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors to sup­port the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) bill af­ter it was re­ject­ed by all Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) present for the vote in the Low­er House on Fri­day.

The bill will be de­bat­ed in the Up­per House to­mor­row (Tues­day). It re­quires a three-fifths ma­jor­i­ty to be passed.

Dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day, De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge said, “The bill will be de­bat­ed in the Sen­ate on Tues­day, in earnest, and will pass with the sup­port of four of the nine pres­i­den­tial sen­a­tors. At least one mem­ber of the House on Fri­day made it clear that the Op­po­si­tion PNM will lob­by the pres­i­dent’s sen­a­tors to not lend the re­quired sup­port.”