Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­grat­u­lat­ed the Ho­n­ourable Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh on his ap­point­ment as Chief Jus­tice of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued to­day, the Prime Min­is­ter de­scribed Chief Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh’s el­e­va­tion as a fit­ting recog­ni­tion of his “il­lus­tri­ous le­gal ca­reer span­ning more than three decades,” marked by “ex­cel­lence, in­tegri­ty, and an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to the rule of law.” He has served as a Jus­tice of Ap­peal for the past five years and has earned the re­spect of the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty and the wider pub­lic for his “sound judg­ment, fair­ness, and ded­i­ca­tion to jus­tice.”

“On be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, I ex­tend warm con­grat­u­la­tions to Chief Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh on his ap­point­ment and best wish­es for con­tin­ued suc­cess as he as­sumes this vi­tal role in ser­vice to our na­tion,” the Prime Min­is­ter said.

She al­so reaf­firmed her gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with the Ju­di­cia­ry “in the shared pur­suit of up­hold­ing jus­tice, strength­en­ing in­tegri­ty, and deep­en­ing pub­lic trust in our de­mo­c­ra­t­ic in­sti­tu­tions.”

The state­ment ex­pressed grat­i­tude to out­go­ing Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie, who served for al­most two decades. In his res­ig­na­tion an­nounce­ment on Oc­to­ber 21, Archie said, “This coun­try has been good to me, and I hope that I have been equal­ly good to my coun­try. It has been an ho­n­our to serve. I wish my suc­ces­sor every suc­cess in the pe­ri­od ahead. May God guide his or her path as this new en­deav­our is com­menced.”

The Gov­ern­ment thanked Chief Jus­tice Archie for his “tru­ly re­mark­able ca­reer” and ex­tend­ed best wish­es for suc­cess in his fu­ture en­deav­ours.