PM not Moving on CJ

PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley is not going to refer Chief Justice Ivor Archie under Section 137 of the Constitution that deals with impeachment proceedings against the CJ.

In a letter to the Law Association, Rowley said, “I have con­sid­ered, ful­ly tak­en in­to ac­count and ob­served the find­ings and state­ments of Mr Jus­tice (Vashiest) Kokaram in his judg­ment. I, there­fore, re­con­sid­er my de­ci­sion on the HDC (Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion) is­sue with an open mind and with­out re­gard to any po­lit­i­cal or oth­er mo­ti­va­tion on the part of the LATT.”

He added, “Af­ter such con­sid­er­a­tion, I have de­cid­ed not to make a rep­re­sen­ta­tion to the Pres­i­dent un­der s137 of the Con­sti­tu­tion. I adopt those rea­sons for my said re­con­sid­ered de­ci­sion and do not set them out here.

“In the judg­ment, it was held that the LATT’s chal­lenge to my de­ci­sion was dis­missed in­so­far as it was based on the grounds of ra­tio­nal­i­ty/rea­son­able­ness, the de­ci­sion not hav­ing been made in the per­for­mance of my con­sti­tu­tion­al func­tions in the pub­lic in­ter­est, bad faith and fail­ure to take in­to ac­count rel­e­vant con­sid­er­a­tions.”

Rowley said, “The ap­pli­ca­tion for ju­di­cial re­view on the ground that I con­sid­ered the ir­rel­e­vant con­sid­er­a­tion of the po­lit­i­cal mo­ti­va­tion of the LATT in ar­riv­ing at my de­ci­sion was quashed with ref­er­ence to that ground and re­mit­ted to me for my re­con­sid­er­a­tion with an open mind and with­out re­gard to the po­lit­i­cal mo­ti­va­tion of the LATT.”

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