OPPOSITION Senators Dr Amery Browne and Faris Al-Rawi chided the government and UNC party for attacking the integrity of independent senators and President Christine Kangaloo, at a briefing at the office of the Opposition Leader, Port of Spain, on July 9.

Browne said he wished to express the opposition's disgust at the "relentless attack on the independent senators." He alleged this was a deliberate strategy by the government.

Browne said the UNC had campaigned in the April 28 general election by shouting and purportedly campaigning against dictatorship, but has now started attacking the independent senators, which he viewed as "a trend to dictatorship."