Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Tem­po­rary Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor San­jiv Bood­hu has warned that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar should not be grant­ed sole au­thor­i­ty to de­clare Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs), cit­ing her past state­ments on crime and what he de­scribed as a pat­tern of con­fronta­tion­al gov­er­nance.

Speak­ing dur­ing yes­ter­day’s Sen­ate de­bate on the ZOSO Bill, Bood­hu ar­gued that the leg­is­la­tion con­cen­trates ex­ces­sive pow­er in the hands of the Prime Min­is­ter and pos­es a threat to con­sti­tu­tion­al rights.