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20160607, Unrevised Senate Debate 1 Senator’s Appointment 2016.06.07 SENATE Tuesday, June 07, 2016 The Senate met at 1.30 p.m. PRAYERS [MADAM PRESIDENT in the Chair] LEAVE OF ABSENCE Madam President: Hon. Senators, I have granted leave of absence to Sen. The Hon. Jennifer Baptiste-Primus, Sen. Dr. Lester Henry and Sen. Gerald Hadeed, who are all out of the country, and to Senators Paul Richards and H.R. Ian Roach who are both ill. SENATOR’S APPOINTMENT Madam President: Hon. Senators, I have received the following correspondence from His Excellency the President, Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona, O.R.T.T. S.C., “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO By His Excellency ANTHONY THOMAS AQUINAS CARMONA, O.R.T.T., S.C., President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago /s/ Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona O.R.T.T. S.C. President TO: MR. ROHAN SINANAN WHEREAS Senator Jennifer Baptiste-Primus is incapable of performing her duties as a Senator by reason of her absence from Trinidad and Tobago: UNREVISED 2 Senator’s Appointment 2016.06.07 NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANTHONY THOMAS AQUINAS CARMONA, President as aforesaid, in exercise of the power vested in me by section 44(1)(a) and section 44(4)(a) of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, do hereby appoint you, ROHAN SINANAN to be temporarily a member of the Senate, with effect from 7th June, 2016 and continuing during the absence from Trinidad and Tobago of the said Senator Jennifer Baptiste-Primus. Given under my Hand and the Seal of the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago at the Office of the President, St. Ann’s, this 6th day of June, 2016.” “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO By His Excellency ANTHONY THOMAS AQUINAS CARMONA, O.R.T.T., S.C., President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago /s/ Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona O.R.T.T. S.C. President TO: MR. RONALD HUGGINS WHEREAS Senator Dr. Lester Henry is incapable of performing his duties as a Senator by reason of his absence from Trinidad and Tobago: NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANTHONY THOMAS AQUINAS CARMONA, President as aforesaid, in exercise of the power vested in me UNREVISED 3 Senator’s Appointment 2016.06.07 by section 44(1)(a) and section 44(4)(a) of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, do hereby appoint you, RONALD HUGGINS to be temporarily a member of the Senate, with effect from 7th June, 2016 and continuing during the absence from Trinidad and Tobago of the said Senator Dr. Lester Henry. Given under my Hand and the Seal of the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago at the Office of the President, St. Ann’s, this 6th day of June, 2016.” “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO By His Excellency ANTHONY THOMAS AQUINAS CARMONA, O.R.T.T., S.C., President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago /s/ Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona O.R.T.T. S.C. President TO: PASTOR CLIVE DOTTIN WHEREAS Senator Paul Richards is incapable of performing his duties as a Senator by reason of his illness. NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANTHONY THOMAS AQUINAS CARMONA, President as aforesaid, in exercise of the power vested in me by section 44(1)(b) and section 44(4)(c) of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, do hereby appoint you, PASTOR CLIVE UNREVISED 4 Senator’s Appointment 2016.06.07 DOTTIN to be temporarily a member of the Senate, with effect from 7th June, 2016 and continuing during the absence of Senator Paul Richards by reason of illness. Given under my Hand and the Seal of the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago at the Office of the President, St. Ann’s, this 6th day of June, 2016.” Madam President: Hon. Senators, we are to receive two further instruments of appointment. So later on in the proceedings we will have the swearing in of those two Senators. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE The following Senators took and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance as required by law: Rohan Sinanan, Ronald Huggins and Pastor Clive Dottin. TRIBUTE (MR. CLIVE SPENCER) Madam President: Hon. Senators, as you aware, former Senator Clive Spencer passed away on June 02, 2016. I now invite you to offer your tributes. The Minister of Rural Development and Local Government (Sen. The Hon. Franklin Khan): Thank you very much, Madam President. On behalf of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and on this Bench, I want to pay tribute to the passing of a former Independent Senator, Clive Randolph Winston Spencer, born August 10, 1936. I see from the records here that he was appointed a Senator, an Independent Senator in 1966, in those days at a very tender age of 30. So while the trend now is to appoint fairly young Senators, in the 1960s that was not the case. UNREVISED 5 Tribute 2016.06.07 (Mr. Clive Spencer) Sen. The Hon. F. Khan So in that sense, obviously, he had something special about him I do not know the gentleman personally, so I cannot speak in that capacity, but what I have noticed, Madam President, is that we are fast losing an entire generation of our immediate post-Independence leaders. These were gentlemen of stature and women of stature. This was the era when country was put before selves, and in a very, very serious way. I think we have lost our moorings as a nation when it come to that, and there is a lot we can learn, if we study the lives and accomplishments of the people who led this country during the ’60s and ’70s. From the records, I see here, that he spanned the entire spectrum of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, another unique accomplishment of this distinguished gentleman. He was President General of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union, from 1965—1970. He was also President of the Trinidad and Tobago Labour Congress, now defunct. Following his career carefully, he became General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago from 1992—1997. Then he went on to become the Chairman of the Port Authority in the year 2011. So in a seamless transition, he moved from President General of the Seaman and Waterfront Workers Trade Union and President of the Trinidad and Tobago Labour Congress, to Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority, and then onwards to Chairman of the Port Authority, in a seamless transition from labour to management, to Board. I hope I do not get in problems for saying this, but the situation you see now, is where a labour representative seemed to be a career position, and what we want to see is that you can come from labour, you come from the bowels of labour, go on to management, because if you love the UNREVISED 6 Tribute 2016.06.07 (Mr. Clive Spencer) Sen. The Hon. F. Khan institution in which you work for, there is nothing wrong in moving from the labour movement into senior management. Sen. Spencer accomplished a lot. He was very instrumental in establishing the system of National Awards in Trinidad, the Prime Minister’s Export Promotion. He was also instrumental in forming the National Insurance Scheme in Trinidad and Tobago, and also the Workers’ Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Not very well known in the national community as we speak, but obviously a man of distinction, a man who has served this country extremely well. On behalf of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, on behalf of my party, the People’s National Movement, we want to offer our deepest condolences to his family, and to hope and to pray, that his soul rests in eternal peace. I thank you, Madam President. Sen. Wade Mark: Thank you very much, Madam President. On behalf of the Senate Opposition Bench, I rise to pay tribute to former Independent Senator, Mr. Clive Winston Spencer, who passed on June 02, 2016. Mr. Spencer was born on August 10, 1936 and served in the Senate from November 19, 1966—October 01, 1970. 1.45 p.m. During his tenure as an Independent Senator, Mr. Clive Spencer was the youngest member in the Senate, and his youthful exuberance in contributing to the development of the nation can be seen by his active participation in debates and the Regulations Committee. Mr. Spencer came from a family aligned to serving people, as his father was a public officer in the postal service and his mother a seamstress, and so he continued in this mould during his professional career. Mr. Spencer served on such an extensive list of committees, clubs and UNREVISED 7 Tribute 2016.06.07 (Mr. Clive Spencer) Sen. Mark associations in his professional career that if I were to attempt to name them all, my tribute will never end today. Most notably, Madam President, he was the President General of that very powerful trade union, the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Labour Congress, Chairman of the Committee for the Establishment of the Workers’ Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority between 1992 and 1997 and, as my colleague said, he was also Chairman of the Port Authority of T&T in 2011 or from 2011.
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