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Sunday, July 27, 2025

An error in judgment all around

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Yes­ter­day the T&T Guardian re­port­ed that the deputy chair­man of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion, Se­bas­t­ian Ven­tour, had re­signed from the com­mis­sion in or­der to be sworn in as a judge for a day so that he could de­liv­er out­stand­ing judg­ments that were await­ing his at­ten­tion.In or­der to be ap­point­ed a judge for a day, he had to re­sign his po­si­tion on the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion. So once again the com­mis­sion con­tin­ues to be the butt of jokes based on its track record.

In this par­tic­u­lar in­stance, a deep­er in­ves­ti­ga­tion is re­quired to un­der­stand how this could have hap­pened. In the first place, Jus­tice Ven­tour would have known that he had out­stand­ing judg­ments to de­liv­er and one would as­sume that he made that fact known to Pres­i­dent Car­mona be­fore he was ap­point­ed.

The Pres­i­dent ought to have known that Jus­tice Ven­tour would have to re­sign in or­der to de­liv­er his out­stand­ing judg­ments. Did the Pres­i­dent nev­er­the­less pro­ceed with the ap­point­ment with the full knowl­edge that Jus­tice Ven­tour would have to re­sign at some stage to en­sure that jus­tice could be de­liv­ered to those who had been wait­ing for his judg­ments since he re­tired from the bench?

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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