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The Senate will convene for the first time in 2025 next week.

Juhel Browne reports.
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00:00The Senate's Order Paper for its first sitting for 2025 has been published on the Parliament's
00:06website.
00:07On the Order Paper for the Senate's proceedings next Tuesday, under the part called Papers,
00:12is the final report of the investigative team appointed by the Attorney General to inquire
00:17and report into the facts and circumstances surrounding CV 2020-01243 Chauvin, Peters
00:25and Orrs v. Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, the matter of the missing file.
00:31There are two bills brought from the House of Representatives on the Order Paper.
00:35The first is the National Emblems of Trinidad and Tobago Regulation Amendment Bill 2025
00:41in the name of the Minister of Tourism.
00:44That bill, which is meant to replace the three Columbia ships on Trinidad and Tobago's Court
00:48of Arms with a national instrument, the Steel Pan, was passed unanimously by the Lower House
00:54on Monday night.
00:56The other bill brought from the House of Representatives to the Senate is the Tobago Island Government
01:01Bill 2021 in the name of the Minister of Housing and Urban Development.
01:05Among the questions for oral answer to be raised in the Senate next Tuesday is a question
01:11by Leader of Opposition Business Wade Mark to National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hines
01:16about the nation's border control mechanisms.
01:19The three-month extension of the State of Emergency will not go before the Senate as
01:23that is a matter that can only be dealt with by the elected MPs in the House of Representatives
01:29in accordance with the Constitution.
01:32The three-month extension of the SOE was approved by the Lower House via the government's majority
01:38on Monday night.
01:39Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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