Dr Williams didn’t sent me to Tanzania
THE EDITOR: May I correct the errors in an article by Marion O’Callaghan in the October 24 Newsday in which she states that: "It is Eric Williams who sends Ulric Cross to Tanzania as Tanzania’s first Chief Justice." The idea of Dr Williams (whom I barely knew) or indeed anyone else "sending" me somewhere is of course laughable. I went to Tanzania in 1967 after nine years in Ghana and Cameroon. In April or May of that year I was in New York and I had to choose between offers of legal positions in UN, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It was the Tanzanian Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr John Malacela, later Prime Minister of Tanzania, who persuaded me to go to Tanzania, first as a High Court Judge, then as the first Chairman of their Industrial Court and later Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam. During my seven years stay in Tanzania the Chief Justice was Telford Georges. In October 2004 it was a great pleasure for me to be invited by the Chief Justice of Tanzania to be the guest of the Judiciary during the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Establishment of the Tanzanian Court of Appeal. It was an even greater pleasure to me to meet again two Court of Appeal Judges and the Chairman of the Law Reform Commission who had been my students at the University of Dar es Salaam. JUSTICE PLU CROSS (Retired) Port-of-Spain
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"Dr Williams didn’t sent me to Tanzania"