Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are back­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s con­cerns about the so-called in­de­pen­dence of sen­a­tors ap­point­ed by the Pres­i­dent. But a for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor who faced the re­buke of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer, Dr Kirk Meighoo, is dis­miss­ing his crit­i­cism as base­less.

Cit­ing a re­cent rul­ing by Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Prof Hamid Ghany not­ed that while pub­lic com­men­tary on past votes is fair, spec­u­lat­ing on fu­ture votes is in­ap­pro­pri­ate.

He was re­spond­ing to Meighoo’s com­ments at the UNC’s head­quar­ters on Sun­day that if at least four In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors do not sup­port the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025 “they will ac­tu­al­ly al­low the PNM to con­tin­ue to rape the Trea­sury, even in Op­po­si­tion.”