i have a difficulty with the unadulterated nonsensical responses that rabid party supporters like carson c cadogan bring to bear on serious issues affecting the country. this setting about of demonising people if they do not support the policies of the dlp does not lend to enlightening debate. rather than tell the government he supports to say sorry about messing up the appointment of the chief justice issue and select another person within the ambit of the law, he and a host of other persons like him try to turn the issue into a political football by insinuating that the blp met with gibson first and in the interim casting aspersions on the character of the former chief justce as well indicate the devilish lengths purblind party supporters would go to keep from sinking the image of a party who fought to govern but now find governing unmanageable. dlp party supporters ought to be praising the greedy and selfish short men in the blp for sowing seeds in the ranks of the blp and rendering the party unattractive to the crucial floating vote. had the dlp legal hierarchy done their homework like sir maurice king would have done, they would have realized that mr gibson was not qualified within the laws of barbados to be chief justice and should not have been considered. on the other hand if mr gibson had any integrity; he would have withdrawn from this volatile and sensitive issue long ago. this sycophantic behaviour by dlp supporters could very well land the dlp and the country in the same problem as 1991 when istead of heeding the economic advice offered they preferred to label those with alternative opinions as prophets of doom and gloom. i hope they change their ways in the interest of barbados.

Finally!

Bill for new CJ ‘drafted
  By Tim Slinger | Sun, March 06, 2011 – 12:02 AM

A BILL TO amend the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, which could facilitate the appointment of United States-based jurist Marston Gibson as Barbados’ next Chief Justice, might be laid before the House of Assembly on Tuesday.

Government sources have told the SUNDAY SUN that the new bill has been finally drafted after several weeks.

If placed on the Order Paper, fierce debate is expected, with the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) taking a strong position against the new amendment.

Last January, reports were that Government would make the move to amend the law, clear the way to appoint Gibson, who does not meet all the legal appointment criteria for Chief Justice.

If the bill is passed, sources say, Gibson could take up the appointment of Chief Justice from April 1.

Justice Sherman Moore, who has acted in the capacity for just over a year, had his acting appointment extended to March 31.

The proposed amendment has also brought strong objection from the Barbados Bar Association’s new president Andrew Pilgrim and past Leslie Haynes, QC.

Senior attorney Ralph Thorne, QC, also took issue with the mooted amendment during a recent lecture at the Tom Adams Financial Centre.
 

Well, finally. So, with luck, the resurrection of the justice system should star on All Fools Day. Hopefully, it sounds the knell for all the fools who have turned our justice system into an injustice system. Roll on April 1.

@checkit-out | March 6, 2011 at 6:40 AM |. Well, as they say, the proof of the pudding is the eating. So, we will just have to wait and see whose spin is right. As confident as anyone can be in the circumstances, I believe that mine will prevail. I pray that mine will prevail, not from the point of any ego and being proved right, but because it is needed for the good of the country and its citizens. So, we have to watch and wait and see.

Well there problems I forsee the bill even coming to pass by that date. Currently on order paper is supplement no 12. Normally that will take the majority of the date and after that it debate on the land titles act. On march 15 the house moves to debate the estimates. I really don’t see it coming into effect before April 1. Though it good they finally done something. I await the bill coming to parliament website for a reading, to see if it was a simple as most people think it is.