{"id":8598,"date":"2015-02-01T03:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T07:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2015-02-02T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:59:59","slug":"ag-must-step-down-first-act-in-rare-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8598","title":{"rendered":"AG must step down: first act in rare drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/anandgarydavid.jpg' width='450' height='200' border='0' alt='Anand Ramlogan, Gary Griffith, David West' \/><\/p>\n<p><I>Express Editorial<br \/>\nFebruary 01, 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/AG-must-step-down-first-act-in-rare-drama-290438581.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The standing of the Attorney General is not the only consideration Ms Persad-Bissessar is obliged to weigh. If, indeed, Mr Griffith had been aware of illegality even suspected of being engaged in or proposed by the Attorney General, he should not himself have waited until now to be exposed as someone in the know. His own fitness for office is now at least open to question. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally, that it has taken nearly three months for Mr West, a lawyer, to report to the relevant authorities some illegality he might have suspected is itself troublingly questionable.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis late in the day, Mr West claims to have been \u201ctaking steps in that regard\u201d, but only after related reports in the Sunday Express. The High Court will eventually decide on criminal liability, but in the court of public opinion, Mr West can hardly enjoy any stature of public-spirited heroism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/AG-must-step-down-first-act-in-rare-drama-290438581.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Express Editorial February 01, 2015 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com &#8220;The standing of the Attorney General is not the only consideration Ms Persad-Bissessar is obliged to weigh. If, indeed, Mr Griffith had been aware of illegality even suspected of being engaged in or proposed by the Attorney General, he should not himself have waited until now to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AG must step down: first act in rare drama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,186,178,396,160,142],"tags":[85,394,44,971,610,889,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-security","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-anand-ramlogan","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-david-west","tag-express","tag-gary-griffith","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}