Prime Minister among 16 to be made Senior Counsels

Port-of-Spain: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard will all be made senior counsels in a ceremony to be presided over by President George Maxwell Richards at 11am.

They are among 16 to be given silk in a list proposed by the attorney general and approved by the prime minister yesterday.

Others on the list are former House Speaker Barendra Sinanan, Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo, founding member of the Congress of the People Vernon de Lima, Solicitor General Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell, Chairman of the Law Reform Commission Samraj Harripaul, Chief Parliamentary Counsel Ian Macintyre and attorneys Stephanie Daly, Dennis Gurley, Christo Gift, Surrendranath Capildeo, Sophia Chote and Norma Maynard-Marshall.