?To­day's Sen­ate ses­sion could well be the last for the UNC's Sen­ate team since par­ty deputy lead­ers Su­ruj Ram­bachan and Lyn­di­ra Ou­dit top a list of new Sen­a­tors ex­pect­ed from in­com­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, a UNC spokesman said yes­ter­day.

Cur­rent UNC Sen­a­tors–in­clud­ing UNC Sen­ate leader Wade Mark –who were ap­point­ed by out­go­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day are tipped for re­moval, it was in­di­cat­ed. A source said the re­or­gan­i­sa­tion would see five per­ma­nent Sen­ate ap­pointees with one ad­di­tion­al Sen­a­tor be­ing ro­tat­ed to al­low var­i­ous pro­fes­sion­als to be ap­point­ed tem­porar­i­ly to speak on ar­eas of leg­is­la­tion in which they spe­cialise. A pool of such ap­pointees–in­clud­ing per­sons such as UNC vice chair­man Dr Fuad Khan, trade union­ist Sylvester Ramquar, women's net­work ad­vo­cate Hazel Brown –was be­ing com­piled. Names of the per­ma­nent Sen­ate ap­pointees were be­ing ex­am­ined yes­ter­day ahead of to­day's UNC cau­cus.

Ou­dit was re­moved as a Sen­a­tor by Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day be­fore Car­ni­val to make way for PSA sec­ond vice-pres­i­dent Christo­pher Joe­field.

Ou­dit had said she felt her re­moval was linked to her sup­port for Per­sad-Bisses­sar. Pan­day said he ap­point­ed Joe­field to take part in to­day's Sen­ate de­bate on the T&T Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA). The Cou­va North MP had spo­ken of a sen­a­to­r­i­al ap­point­ment for Ram­bachan last Ju­ly when Ram­bachan was oust­ed as Ch­agua­nas May­or. That nev­er ma­te­ri­alised. Ram­bachan said yes­ter­day: "The leader will make any de­ci­sion. Right now we're con­cen­trat­ing on par­ty re­or­gan­is­ing and prepar­ing to win Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions."

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, UNC Sen­a­tor Wade Mark said he was in a meet­ing. Sen­a­tors Adesh Nan­nan and MF Ra­haman have been sto­ic in pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed com­ments. Sen­a­tor Sharon Gopaul-Mc­Ni­chol said: "The Op­po­si­tion Leader ap­points and re­vokes – that's the process un­der the Con­sti­tu­tion. So I'll sup­port what­ev­er is done un­der the process." Sen­a­tor Jen­nifer Ker­na­han added: "I was ap­point­ed by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pan­day. If asked to con­tin­ue, I will. If not, my life will go on. I'll move on to some­thing else."