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- Title:
- Trinidad Guardian Reporting on Prime Minister, Dr. Eric Williams
Subjects
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- Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981
Hudson-Phillips, Karl
Richardson, Selwyn
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Trinidad
Guardian
Repo
rting
1981
March
USED WITH PERMI
SSION
PM
BLAMES
FORMER
AG
FOR
DELAY
PRIME MINISTER
Dr. Eric Williams
yesterday put the blame
for delay
in providin
g
legislation for
Chattel House on the former Attorn
In one of his rare statements in
ey
General who held the
pOs
ition in 1972.
Parliament, Dr. Williams said that in a letter from the
then Attorn
neral in September
1972, he
was told that the
Chattel House
Bill was
being acted upon and would be
ready at the
end of the month.
How
ever, he did not receive
the bill
until March 1973
,although the Attorney
G
enera
th
en had the
draft
sever
al months before.
Dr. Williams
did not
call
names,
but the
Attorney Gen
eral at the
time
Mr. Karl Hudson-Phillips
The Prime Minister's
comme
nts were made
after the
Chattel House
Bill
was unanimously passed
House of Representatives
r because
it was
election
yesterday and he
rejected statements that the
Bill
was only brought th
year.
He
showeredc
"important piece
Congratulations on Attorney General Senator Selwyn Richardson for bringin of legislation."'
Chattel
House Bill,
which was
passe
d with am
endments move
d by both Government and
oppos
ition
seeks
to provide
mac
hin
ery to
solve
problems
and allow for
ust claims
of landlords
tenants.
Imme
diately after
passage,
Dr. Williams
said that he
wanted to make a stateme
nt that he
had been
waitin
g
to make a Ion
g
time.
The Prime Minister said
"I
would
like members of the House
to know that the
Prime Minister
advised many
long months ago
that this
Chattel House
Bill
was being acted upon and that the
Prime
Minister would have
the
Bill on his desk at the
end of the
month in which the letter
was written.
regret o advise honourable members, you,
Mr. Speaker,
and the younger members of Cabinet
that that meant the Prime
Minister
receive
d the
Bill in the month or March instead of September
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4 A C *J
Trinidad
Guardian
Repo
rting
1981
March
USED WITH PERMI
SSION
Dr. Williams,
lookin
g
across at the
Attorney General,
said
"I
congratulate most formally my friend
and coil
eague
S
elwyn Richardson
.warmest congratulations on one of the most important pieces of
legislation put in any statute books
of the Caribbean Parliament.
We are honoured to be associated."
Debate
as the Bill,
which began last Friday, continued at the start of yesterday's
session and
Opposition Leader, Rep. Basdeo Panday, in calling
for ame
ndments,
said there were areas of uncertainty
in the
Bill which n
eeded to be
clarified to reconcile inequities.
Government's
hodge-podge (illegible
method of d
ealing with problems of the society left much to
be desired. he
said.
Attorney General,
Senator Richardson
expiaine
d the Bill
was to
ease
the
burden and Government
would listen to any recommendation towards that goal.
He
compiime
nted me
mbers for coop
eration
and described the debate
as enlightened.
He assured that the tenants of Caroni would be protected.
Debate
also began
yesterday
on another
land
law Bill to reform
land
law and the
law of
conveyancing.
The House was
adjourned to
Thursday at 1:30 p.m. when debate on the Rent Control Bill will
continue.
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