New Attorney General for Trinidad and Tobago

Sunday, November 9, 2003

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Mr John Jeremie, the Head of the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, is the new Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago.

According to Newsday, Jeremie replaces Glenda Morean, who is heading to London as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe. Jeremie, 41, is to be sworn in as Attorney General by President Richards on Monday, and a Senator on Tuesday. 

He obtained his LLB from the University of the West Indies and is a graduate of the Hugh Wooding Law School. He obtained his Masters in Law from King's College, London University in 1989 and is a partner in the law firm Alexander, Jeremie and Company.

Jeremie was appointed a Government Commissioner with the Public Utilities Commission in 1994. He was also a Director with Nationwide Insurance Company and the Youth Training and Enterprise Partnership Programme Limited (YTEPP). Until his new appointment, Jeremie had been Chairman of the National Broadcasting Network Limited (NBN), which is now up for divestment.

Jeremie has been involved in several high profile cases, but as a junior attorney. He was a member of the legal team representing the Attorney General in a case brought against the State by Northern Construction Limited (NCL). He also represented the Attorney General in the just-concluded constitutional motion brought by Robinson Crusoe Limited over the acquisition of land comprising Pigeon Point Estate in Tobago. 

Jeremie was a part of the Attorney General's team in a constitutional motion brought by members of the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) over the Deyalsingh Commission report. Another major legal case for the new Attorney General was the constitutional motion brought by defeated PNM candidates Franklyn Khan and Farad Khan following the general elections results of 2000 for the constituencies of Or-toire/Mayaro and Pointe-a-Pierre.

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