Richard Lord

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion's mo­tion of no con­fi­dence in At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie was not in­tend­ed to re­move him from of­fice.

At­tor­ney and as­so­ci­a­tion mem­ber Suren Capildeo said so af­ter yes­ter­day's two-hour de­bate on the mo­tion at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain.

Capildeo, who was among the first set of at­tor­neys to leave with­out cast­ing their votes, want­ed to know how Je­re­mie could tell the me­dia that the as­so­ci­a­tion could not move him. Je­re­mie said this in an in­ter­view with re­porters on Tues­day.

Capildeo said: "There was ab­solute­ly noth­ing in the res­o­lu­tion to re­move him, and who does he think he is that he can't be moved?"

Asked if the mo­tion was not nor­mal­ly in­tend­ed to send a sig­nal that the per­son should re­sign, Capildeo said: "No, a mo­tion of no con­fi­dence says 'I have no con­fi­dence in you,' it has noth­ing to do with re­mov­ing the man from the of­fice...That is the priv­i­lege of the Prime Min­is­ter."