Gail Alexan­der

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Vish­nu Dhan­paul has warned that the Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) (Cit­i­zen­ship) Bill, 2025, could be ex­ploit­ed to abuse T&T’s cit­i­zen­ship and pass­ports—in­clud­ing fa­cil­i­tat­ing the in­fil­tra­tion of Venezue­lan “sleep­er cells.”

Speak­ing dur­ing Wednes­day’s Sen­ate de­bate, Dhan­paul said sev­er­al claus­es of the bill were “too wide” and ques­tioned what lay be­hind them. While ac­knowl­edg­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s as­sur­ances of strict safe­guards to pro­tect na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, he urged con­sid­er­a­tion of oth­er sce­nar­ios.