When the country’s new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is eventually chosen, the process will be one of the highest integrity, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite has promised.
His comments came in the wake of statements made by Opposition Leader Mia Mottley last week when she was hosted at a luncheon by the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
“There are a number of positions in this country that are vacant now, that this country needs to demand cannot be filled in the dying days of an administration,” Mottley said, referring to the posts of Governor General, Central Bank governor and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
“Now if people only allow the Opposition to be the only voice on these matters, then the Government will fill them with impunity. And you will be stuck with whomsoever they choose.
“And the consequences of that are not going to be easy because they will affect the condition of life and the options of an incoming Government in a serious way,” Mottley told the business people.
“I can only say to you that having discussed it with my colleagues and the chairman, we cannot seriously consider ourselves bound by any inopportune or improper decisions made in the dying days by this administration that will extend its protection for people who ought not to be protected.”
However, according to Brathwaite, the Opposition Leader should know better.
“Had Miss Mottley done her homework, she would have known that the office of the DPP is filled by the Governor General, acting on the recommendation of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission,” the Attorney General told the DAILY NATION in response. (BA)
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