Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
PRESIDENT George Maxwell Richards yesterday appointed five new Independent Senators, while retaining just four of the previous bench that he had appointed after the 2007 general election.
The five new Independent Senators are mathematician Prof Harold Ramkissoon, obstetrician/gynaecologist Dr Victor Wheeler, attorney Elton Prescott SC, development planner Dr James Kenneth Armstrong, and business administrator/academic Dr Rolph Balgobin. He previously acted as a temporary senator.
The four senators retained are retired engineer Basharat Ali, former banker Helen Drayton, stockbroker Subhas Ramkhelawan and retired diplomat Corinne Baptiste-McKnight.
Altogether, the President appointed nine Independent Senators. The former senators who were not reappointed were attorney Dana Seetahal, criminologist Prof Ramesh Deosaran, Tobago-based Annette Nicholson-Alfred, businesswoman Gail Merhair and trade unionist Michael Annisette.
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