Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les says there will be changes to the Op­po­si­tion Sen­ate bench when Par­lia­ment re­con­venes to­mor­row.

The an­nounce­ment comes just over a month af­ter con­tro­ver­sy en­gulfed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), fol­low­ing the re­moval of Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates from the Pub­lic Ac­counts and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Com­mit­tee (PAAC) amid al­le­ga­tions she helped in edit­ing a wit­ness state­ment sub­mit­ted by for­mer health min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.

John-Bates of­fered her res­ig­na­tion to Beck­les, who is yet to make a de­ci­sion on that. How­ev­er, John-Bates and Faris Al-Rawi avoid­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee, af­ter a mo­tion seek­ing to re­fer them to the com­mit­tee lapsed. The is­sue arose af­ter it was re­vealed Al-Rawi was al­so in­volved in prepar­ing the wit­ness state­ment.