The mat­ter be­tween the THA and the AG is dock­et­ed for Jan­u­ary.
The AG point­ed out that Duke and THA chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is be­ing rep­re­sent­ed by two lawyers who have done work for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in the past.

“Quite in­ter­est­ing­ly, at­tor­neys ap­pear­ing for Mr Wat­son Duke in the per­son of Mr Anand Ram­lo­gan, S.C,” he said adding that Ram­lo­gan was “well-known to us”.
The AG said that the lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Duke were “ha­bit­u­al­ly be­fore the court rep­re­sent­ing the Op­po­si­tion”.

Au­gus­tine, he said, was be­ing rep­re­sent­ed by Kiel Tack­lals­ingh.
“Again a well-known south­ern lawyer, from South Trinidad who is no stranger to us, rep­re­sent­ing many mat­ters brought by the Op­po­si­tion,” he said.

“I urge the un­der­stand­ing that there comes a time when we have to re­spect­ful­ly con­sid­er what is in the best in­ter­est of the na­tion,” Al-Rawi said.
“Doors are not closed. The op­por­tu­ni­ty to have con­struc­tive crit­i­cism is be­fore us,” he said.

Last week the AG chal­lenged Duke’s ap­point­ment as deputy chief sec­re­tary of the THA in court. He not­ed that Duke was serv­ing as head of the Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and a mem­ber of the reg­is­tra­tion, recog­ni­tion and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion board (RRCB).

In that claim, Al-Rawi said that Duke still re­ceives re­mu­ner­a­tion from both bod­ies. One of the re­quire­ments of the THA ex­ec­u­tive is that no mem­ber must re­ceive any pay­ments from any ex­ter­nal sources.

Re­porter: Renu­ka Singh