UNC supports court solution in Ayers Caesar matter

Lee recalled Persad-Bissessar’s arguments were based on the grounds that any legislative intervention could be struck down by the courts. He claimed the announcement of this solution by Acting Attorney General Stuart Young at Thursday’s post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s showed Young understood what Persad-Bissessar was saying.

He boasted this showed Persad- Bissessar had the experience, intellect, vision and political will to address the issues facing the country.

On Thursday, Young said the Opposition misunderstood that the legislative solution being proposed to resolve the 53 cases came from legal stakeholders such as the Director of Public Prosecutions and not from the Government. Young also said the Opposition knew that the tribunal referred to under Section 137 of the Constitution would not resolve this matter either. He said, “We will basically lay the facts out as we know it, via affidavit, to the High Court and we will set out what are the various provisions of the existing law that apply and we will then invite the High Court to make a decision and to come to a conclusion as to how these 53 cases should be dealt with going forward.”