Richard Lord

Leader of the To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple (TOP) and Mi­nor­i­ty Leader of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Ash­worth Jack said it was sad to see the ap­point­ment of Jus­tice Min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney re­voked. He said so mo­ments af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Vol­ney's ap­point­ment had been re­voked for his role in hav­ing the Pres­i­dent pro­claim Sec­tion 34 of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act 2011 on Au­gust 31. To­ba­go lawyer Christlyn Moore is to be ap­point­ed a sen­a­tor and Jus­tice Min­is­ter to­day. Jack said he ful­ly sup­port­ed the ac­tion of the Prime Min­is­ter. "We can­not al­low things to con­tin­ue and walk away from them be­cause of po­lit­i­cal ex­pe­di­en­cy,"?he said in an in­ter­view with re­porters at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann's last night. He said Per­sad-Bisses­sar had set a good ex­am­ple "al­so for me as a leader."

Jack said:?"It is sad that we have had to lose a col­league in this way, but I think it is nec­es­sary to do what you have to do." Asked if he saw any link be­tween Vol­ney's dis­missal and the pub­lic per­cep­tion that the law was pro­claimed in the in­ter­est of two spe­cif­ic peo­ple, Jack said while the pop­u­la­tion must have some spec­u­la­tion, he did not want to join that group of peo­ple. Jack said Moore should be giv­en a chance to do the job as Jus­tice Min­is­ter, and al­though he ex­pect­ed it to be very chal­leng­ing, she would do a good job. He said Moore should not be de­barred from be­ing a min­is­ter be­cause she had rep­re­sent­ed the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al in cer­tain le­gal mat­ters. Jack said it was good that an­oth­er woman was serv­ing the na­tion in the field of pol­i­tics.