{"id":5090,"date":"2026-10-02T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:34:35","slug":"sanjiv-boodhu-says-laws-must-be-clear-practical-and-supported-by-meaningful-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=5090","title":{"rendered":"Sanjiv Boodhu Says Laws Must Be Clear Practical And Supported By Meaningful Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sanjiv Boodhu has argued that legislation should be clear, practical and shaped through meaningful consultation with the people who will be affected by it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a PNM national conversation in St Joseph, Boodhu said citizens should look beyond whether they generally agree with the stated purpose of a law and closely examine how its individual provisions would operate.<\/p>\n<p>He identified several principles that he believes should guide lawmakers, including fairness, clarity, practicality and the need for laws to operate prospectively rather than unfairly punishing conduct that was previously lawful.<\/p>\n<p>Boodhu said laws should be written in a way that allows ordinary citizens to understand what is required of them.<\/p>\n<p>He also argued that legislation should not impose obligations that are unreasonable or practically impossible to satisfy.<\/p>\n<p>According to Boodhu, consultation should continue beyond the initial passage of legislation, with lawmakers paying attention to how laws operate in the real world and making adjustments where problems emerge.<\/p>\n<p>He said major social or economic changes require particularly careful consultation because their effects can extend across different communities, industries and generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjiv Boodhu called for clearer legislation and greater public involvement in lawmaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}