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The Senate of Trinidad and Tobago is the appointed upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, ... The Senate has 31 members all appointed by the ...
Pages in category "Members of the Senate (Trinidad and Tobago)" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago is the legislative branch of Trinidad and Tobago.The Parliament is bicameral.Besides the President of Trinidad and Tobago, it is composed of the House of Representatives, which is composed of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in addition to 41 directly elected members serving a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and the Senate which ...
The president chairs debates in the chamber of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago and stands in for the country's president during periods of absence or illness (Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, section 27). [2] A vice-president of the Senate is also elected from among the senators. The current president of the Senate is Senator Nigel de ...
The House of Representatives has 41 members, elected for a maximum five-year term in single-seat constituencies. The Senate has 31 members: 16 government senators appointed on the advice of the prime minister, six opposition senators appointed on the advice of the leader of the opposition and nine so-called independent senators appointed by the ...
He is the current president of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. [2] He took office in January 2023. [3] [4] He was born in 1979. [5] He attended Bishops High School in Tobago. He got a bachelor's degree in marine and freshwater biology from University of Guelph, Canada. [6] He was appointed as a government senator on 23 September 2015. [1]
Christine Carla Kangaloo ORTT (born 1 December 1961) [5] is a Trinidadian politician, who is the president of Trinidad and Tobago since 2023. She was president of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago from 2015 until her resignation to run for president in 2023.
In 1976, the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18. The Senate's 31 members are appointed by the President: 16 on the advice of the prime minister, six on the advice of the leader of the opposition, and nine independents selected by the President from among outstanding members of the community.