Why is AG pathetically playing the blame game?

Dear Editor,
No Attorney General in the history of the Caribbean has had his/her competence, suitability and performance so vigorously challenged and questioned by the public and the media than Basil Williams. This by itself is an indictment. Even the President was forced to come out and bat for him recently.
On every occasion that he is found wanting, he finds someone to blame, most times me, in order to shift blame away from himself.
Recently, the Press zeroed in on his dismal performance and queried the number of case which the State has lost since he assumed Office. Two and a half years after I left Office, he pathetically continues to blame me for very straight forward and elementary cases which the State lost. The truth is that incompetence and ignorance of law cannot win cases whether the cases are good or bad.
In any event and for the record, I left no bad or weak cases at the Attorney- General Chambers. I settled most cases of that nature, so as to avoid wasting the Court’s time resources and that of the State. Lawyers at the practicing Bar can attest to this.
Invoking my name, therefore, was his usual modus operandi to which the Press and the public have become quite accustomed. Apart from the cases which he allegedly “inherited,” he lost almost every case of substance filed against State, since he assumed Office.
It is public knowledge that that I filed several of those cases and they were successful. That is now public knowledge. Indeed, the last time I checked, the AG Chambers owes my Office and my clients millions of dollars in outstanding judgements and costs in respect of cases filed and won over the last twoand a half year.
The Learned Attorney General should have been full and frank with the Press and inform them the he personally drafted the application to the Caribbean Court of Justice in the multi million dollars case involving Dipcon Engineering Inc. When the Court dismissed said Application as being the wrong procedure employed and wrong documents filed, he then denied to the Staff at AG’ Chambers that he drafted the documents, accusing them of forging his signature!
He should have also explained that in the Berbice Sangha case, he refused to settle the case by rejecting an offer of $7 million. He ended up losing the case with Judgement being awarded against the State for over $30 million dollars; nearly five times more!
As Mr Williams continues to mislead the public on these matters and blame others for his misdeeds, I will continue to set the record straight.
After all, it is my parliamentary duty do so.

Sincerely,
Anil Nandlall
Former Attorney
General