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Monday, July 28, 2025

Ramlogan not stepping aside

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At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan said yes­ter­day that he had no in­ten­tion of re­cus­ing him­self from any in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of col­lu­sion re­lat­ing to lit­i­ga­tion in­volv­ing the abuse of pris­on­ers.Ram­lo­gan, speak­ing to re­porters out­side the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, Port-of-Spain af­ter the fu­ner­al ser­vice for for­mer pres­i­dent Arthur NR Robin­son, said the is­sue does not in­volve him but two in­de­pen­dent de­part­ments in his min­istry.He said the al­le­ga­tions raised by for­mer So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well in a let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar does not re­fer to him.

The claim of pos­si­ble col­lu­sion was made ini­tial­ly by for­mer So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well, who wrote to the Prime Min­is­ter in Au­gust last year ask­ing that she in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter. She sub­se­quent­ly re­signed in Jan­u­ary and the Prime Min­is­ter re­ferred the mat­ter to Ram­lo­gan for his in­ves­ti­ga­tion, which he said was com­plet­ed.On Wednes­day, the Prime Min­is­ter di­rect­ed Ram­lo­gan to re­vis­it the mat­ter even though he claimed ear­li­er that he had in­ves­ti­gat­ed it and found no wrong­do­ing.

Ram­lo­gan said he in­tend­ed to meet with the In­spec­tor of Pris­ons, the Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons, the Jus­tice Min­is­ter, the act­ing So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al and the Chief State So­lic­i­tor to re­view the mat­ter ei­ther to­day or by Mon­day.How­ev­er, at a pub­lic meet­ing on Wednes­day night, Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley says he was not ac­cept­ing a de­ci­sion by the Prime Min­is­ter to not ap­point an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions.Row­ley was speak­ing dur­ing as pub­lic meet­ing El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary School, Tu­na­puna on Wednes­day, as cam­paign­ing con­tin­ued for this month's in­ter­nal elec­tions.

He in­sist­ed noth­ing oth­er than an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion was re­quired af­ter claims were made that cas­es were be­ing set­tled out of court to the ben­e­fit of a named at­tor­ney.He said Per­sad-Bisses­sar was "test­ing the faith and pa­tience of the peo­ple of T&T" by not al­low­ing for the in­de­pen­dent probe.The Diego Mar­tin West MP told the meet­ing that he in­tend­ed to do all with­in his pow­er, in­clud­ing a pub­lic march in protest, and even called on the Prime Min­is­ter to call ear­ly elec­tions if she was not pre­pared to call the probe.


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