Members of the executive have no business commenting on judicial officials and verdicts in cases, according to Alliance For Change (AFC) leader, Raphael Trotman.
“We [the AFC] don’t believe that the executive should be commenting on individual cases. They may speak sometimes about the sloth in getting certain things effected or we may comment generally….but to single out individual judges or individual judgements is not something the executive ought to be commenting on,” Trotman, who is Minister of Natural Resources, told a press conference yesterday after being asked for the party’s position on Attorney General Basil Williams’ recent comments on the judiciary and outgoing Chancellor (ag) Carl Singh.
Already, Prime Minister and AFC member Moses Nagamootoo has distanced himself from Williams’ comments, in which the AG suggested that the Chancellor was attempting to “free” former president Bharrat Jagdeo of the