THE EDITOR:
ATTORNEY General John Jeremie seems to be ever mindful of his role as Guardian of our Democracy because he continues working tirelessly while his critics are conniving, manipulating and chairing meetings in a bid to discredit him.

The clouds disappeared the day that the prime minister appointed John Jeremie as Attorney General in this beautiful land of sand, sea and alleged corrupted CJ.

We as a nation have to get to that stage of maturity where we recognise that we still have people with principles, veracity and all the good qualities that we should attribute to our leaders. We have in our Attorney General a man who has the courage to expose the impropriety of any fraternity when there is a blunder.

We should also be mindful of this AG’s contribution since taking office, some of which include:

* Extraditing “Small” Olive Enayhooma El.

* Passing the Terror-ism Act.

* Charging Abu Bakr under the Terrorism Act.

* Enacting package of Crime Legislation including no bail for kidnappers (Yuh notice kidnappings down?)

* Charging politicians from both political parties PNM and UNC (Including Panday, he make a jail).

* Bringing the Integrity Legislation into force in three weeks.

* Representing TnT and winning the Maritime Boundary dispute with Barbados.

* Having the courage and intellect to confront the Chief Justice on the Naraynsingh matter and the Chief Magistrate issue. Alas, when the criminals thought it was safe to go back into the water Superman AG strikes again by having Eduardo Hillman-Waller arrested in Miami for “tiefing we money”.

THE EDITOR:
WHATEVER authority the spirit of the constitution may confer upon the President, he cannot be supreme judge over and above the established Judiciary.

Until we change the Constitution and elect an executive president, the authority of the courts may not be over-ridden without peril.

Essentially, this means that no state of emergency however limited and specialised may overturn the injunctions legally given in favour of the CJ.

States of emergency cannot emasculate the Judiciary any more than they may trammel the police and defence force.

In my own layman’s view, the single course open to the President now, other than to permit the law to run its tortuous course around the contrived hurdles, is to establish a Presidential Commission of inquiry to investigate the actions of all players in the present crisis.

Aspersions and denigrations have been levelled against many Judges and the CoP cannot be entitled to carte blanche on the assumption of an angelic nature.

Simply put, his conclusions may be based on suspect information.

The findings of such a commission will assist the courts to arrive at a balanc-ed judgment.

As bad as a sitting CJ being criminally prosecuted may be, even a President cannot usurp the function of the Courts.

Unfortunately, that the President has privately met with all appeal court Judges as well as Justice Judith Jones privately, colours the picture a vivid red. Not even Judges are beyond feeling coerced.

Talking to all parties not under oath cannot produce truth or justice out of politicians and lackeys.

Our eminent President of renowned scholarship needs careful legal advice and the wisdom of Solomon to navigate these rough waters.

THE EDITOR:
THE People’s Business, which aired on July 30, 2006 on Bajan TV, attempted to analyse the ongoing CJ imbroglio unfolding in TnT.

In a classic manifestation of “fools rush in where angels fear to tread” it was both entertaining and informative.

The input via telephone of Bajan commentator Julian Rogers spared the young Indian Trini expert, from threatened ambush by a determined Professor McIntosh.

Rogers’ reasoned and fair provision of pertinent facts, both obvious and unstated, were refreshing.

They effectively discredit-ed the good professor’s hide bound and tunnel vision.

The latter’s aggressive commitment to the false premise that the CJ is entitled to no legal protect-ion against police humilia-tion and manhandling, clearly instigated to serve a political agenda, is sweet music to any dictatorship in the making.

As already posited in the TnT media, were McIntosh’s offended sensibilities, so obviously slanted against the CJ, when the spirit of both constitutional propriety and democratic dictate were Presidentially trampled on December 24, 2001?

The guest expert from TnT spared the necessity of rebutting McIntosh’s misleading construct on a constitutional issue demanding the keenest interest throughout the region.

While McIntosh is constitutionally entitled to public expression of personal interpretation, even on issues upon which he is so clearly ill informed, his vehemence is a source of serious concern; as was his arrogant dismissal of the Honourable Justice Judith Jones as a “junior judge”, insulting.

If as posited, the good professor was mentor of TnT’s own sadly misdirected AG Jeremie when he studied law at Cave Hill in Barbados, then any further contemplation, expenditure or discussion on the CCJ needs to be preceded by the im-mediate termination of the study of law at any UWI campus.

If the two afore-named are exemplars of UWI’s best, the Caribbean can only benefit from the added expense of educating young lawyers in the homeland of the Privy Council, before which the issue in question is destined for final resolution.
Clearly, based on McIntosh and Jeremie, in this discipline, UWI has failed the Caribbean miserably!

Unless of course, Professor McIntosh’s contribution was a subtle, pre-emptive, if not necessarily reasoned strike, motivated solely by concern at the ongoing Indo proliferation in his own Barbados!