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The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go says if the al­le­ga­tions made by the Prime Min­is­ter against In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors have sub­stance, they must be re­port­ed to the ap­pro­pri­ate au­thor­i­ties for a fair in­quiry, and if not, they should be with­drawn.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued fol­low­ing the de­feat of the Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions) (Spe­cial Se­cu­ri­ty and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Mea­sures) Bill, 2026, the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go warned that re­peat­ing un­ver­i­fied ac­cu­sa­tions “serves on­ly to un­der­mine pub­lic con­fi­dence in our Par­lia­ment.”

The As­so­ci­a­tion ex­pressed con­cern over what it de­scribed as “grave ac­cu­sa­tions” made against un­named In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors, not­ing that such claims, if true, would amount to se­ri­ous mis­con­duct.