Constitution change and fragmented Opposition Parties (Dr. Ghany, Dec 2005) 

In Dec 2005 Dr. ghany wrote that "With the society now operating in a mode of political turnover within the last 20 years, those parts of our Constitution that require the support of the Opposition for the passage of legislation requiring special majorities have taken on a new dimension.This was not a problem that was beyond solution in the 1960s and 1970s for the PNM, when they were able to negotiate with parts of a fragmented Opposition to enact special majority legislation. In 1968, Bhadase Maraj supported the amendment of the Constitution to introduce the Teaching Service Commission, while the rest of the Opposition did not support the legislation."