IN one of her government’s first major acts, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced on May 3 that she intends to send the new Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Dr Roodal Moonilal to neighbouring Grenada to explore fresh oil and gas possibilities for Trinidad and Tobago, which was bigger than the Dragon Gas Field.

She also gave notice of a weighty legislative agenda, which new Attorney General John Jeremie, who served in two PNM administrations, will lead as the government moves to open the new parliamentary term.

High on its agenda, Persad-Bissessar said, will be the repeal of the contentious Trinidad and Tobago Revenue Authority Act, the introduction of stand your ground laws, home invasion laws and the regulations to make it easier to grant gun licences to law-abiding citizens.