Al-Rawi: No speculation about PM on CJ issue

ATTORNEY General Faris Al-Rawi has declined to speculate on the Law Association calls for the Prime Minister to trigger Section 137 and set up a tribunal to investigate allegations of misconduct against Chief Justice Ivor Archie.

“We are not speculating. It is a matter for the Prime Minister and he will address those facts. We are not going to enter into any speculation and when the Prime Minister is in a position to speak to that he will speak to that.”

He was speaking yesterday at the post-Cabinet media conference held at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s.

Communications Minister Stuart Young said he had not received confirmation that the Office of the Prime Minister had received the report from the Law Association and as soon as it is received “we will let you all know.”

On a Guardian media report of communication issues between Dr Rowley and the Chief Justice, Young said “We saw what the report says; at this stage there is nothing for the Prime Minister to consider. He will take legal advice at that stage. We have seen what the Guardian report is suggesting about recusal et cetera – none of that arises at this stage.”

Young added that he would not entertain any further questions on the issue at this stage.

Asked whether Rowley will seek legal advice or can make a determination on his own, Minister in the Office of the Attorney General Fitzgerald Hinds said it was a matter of constitutional purport “and no prime minister, especially including the Prime Minister of TT, I might add given his very sober and sensible and deliberate approach to the job of being prime minister, would act without advice.”