Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day not­ed that over the last sev­en months, Gov­ern­ment has al­ready brought 13 pieces of leg­is­la­tion to Par­lia­ment and an­oth­er three were to be de­bat­ed yes­ter­day.

Venezue­lan ad­vo­cates say near­ly 20 Venezue­lan mi­grants have been is­sued de­por­ta­tion or­ders for il­le­gal en­try since De­cem­ber, af­ter ap­proach­ing Im­mi­gra­tion of­fices for in­for­ma­tion on the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion pro­gramme.

The Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed mea­sure to ease the im­pact of the strict road traf­fic fines in­tro­duced at the start of the year moved a step clos­er to im­ple­men­ta­tion yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the pas­sage of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Bill in the Low­er House. The leg­is­la­tion comes af­ter many penal­ties were dou­bled, spark­ing wide­spread pub­lic con­cern.

The Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Min­istry has re­quest­ed an au­dit in­to the Youth Agri­cul­tur­al Home­stead (YAHP) pro­gramme fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of cer­tain cost is­sues—and Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein has di­rect­ed PNM leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les' queries on it to for­mer Youth De­vel­op­ment min­is­ter Fos­ter Cum­mings.