And while that is one theater of war with the Ashcroft Alliance, another is the Ninth Amendment. Tomorrow at 9:00, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin will rule on an injunction BEING SOUGHT BY VUAGHAN GILL AND RICARDO CASTILLO backed up by the Alliance to restrain the Attorney General and The Governor General from signing the Ninth into law.
But, no matter what, at 10:00 am, the Government will be going back to the house to pass the Ninth Amendment bill. It seems a virtual certainty, PM Barrow needs 24 votes to pass it and - minus Marcel Cardona - the UDP has exactly that. But 7news has been very reliably informed that monied interests opposed to the ninth have been trying to snipe off representatives - that is - to put it plainly - offering lame duck UDP representatives - "incentives" to absent themselves from tomorrow's meeting or vote against the Ninth.
Again, we note that it is only a shade of possibility but a real one nonetheless - so the first thing we'll do when we attend tomorrow's house meeting is count to make sure that all 24 Representatives are on the UDP side, and we won't know if the bill will pass until a division is taken and all 24 UDP members raise their hands and the "aye's" have it.
On the opposition said, there will only be three "nay's" because it is expected that former leader Briceno, interim Leader Espat and Senor Deputy Hyde will not be present at the meeting.
We'll have all the action from the house on tomorrow night's newscast.
