{"id":8852,"date":"2015-05-18T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T03:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T11:19:31","slug":"joan-out-of-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8852","title":{"rendered":"Joan out of line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><B>PM, AG on Emailgate counter-attack<\/B><\/BIG> <\/p>\n<p><I>By Yvonne Webb<br \/>\nMay 19, 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2015-05-18\/joan-out-line\">guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=kamla-persad-bissessar\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamla2.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' class='alignleft' alt='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' \/><\/a>Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night called on Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Honore-Paul to step aside in the Emailgate matter over a statement she made on the issue last week.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came hours after Attorney General Garvin Nicholas expressed his disappointment and concern over Honore-Paul\u2019s judgment last week in criticising Persad-Bissessar for suggesting that she and her colleagues had been cleared in the probe when the case was still open.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDuring a cottage meeting in Tunapuna yesterday, Persad-Bissessar said she had asked her lawyers to peruse the deputy DPP\u2019s statement and they would now call on her to recuse herself from the matter since she had demonstrated a clear bias.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2015-05-18\/joan-out-line\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150518\/news\/step-aside\">STEP ASIDE<\/A><br \/>\nPrime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar claimed last night that deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Joan Honore-Paul showed bias in the release she issued last week and her lawyers intend to file a complaint against her with the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JSLC).<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150518\/news\/attorney-general-bat-in-your-crease\">&#8230;Attorney General: Bat in your crease<\/A><br \/>\nAttorney General Garvin Nicholas has written to deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) reminding her to stick to her &#8220;constitutional purview&#8221; and desist from making comments that would call the independence of the DPP&#8217;s Office into question.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150519\/news\/all-eyes-on-mark\">All eyes on Mark<\/A><br \/>\nMotion to rescind Rowley&#8217;s suspension<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM, AG on Emailgate counter-attack By Yvonne Webb May 19, 2015 &#8211; guardian.co.tt Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night called on Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Honore-Paul to step aside in the Emailgate matter over a statement she made on the issue last week. Her comments came hours after Attorney General Garvin Nicholas expressed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joan out of line<\/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":[1,186,178,566,396,7,142],"tags":[192,996,144,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-opposition-party","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-unc","tag-dpp","tag-joan-honore-paul","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","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=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}