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The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, has been passed in the Low­er House with­out Op­po­si­tion sup­port.

Short­ly be­fore mid­night, de­bate on the leg­is­la­tion that seeks to crim­i­nalise home in­va­sion and em­pow­er oc­cu­pants of homes to law­ful­ly de­fend them­selves, oth­ers, and their prop­er­ty came to an end and was put to a vote af­ter a di­vi­sion was called by Op­po­si­tion MP Colm Im­bert.

The vote end­ed with 23 votes in favour, in­clud­ing the 21 Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MPs in the House and the two elect­ed mem­bers of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty.