Grenada parliamentarian calls on diplomatic mission to stop interfering
by Leroy Noel
Thursday, April 15, 2004
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada: Former member of the
Upper House of Parliament and leading attorney at law Anselm Clouden has
issued a call to an un-named diplomatic mission here to stop paying the salary
of legal adviser to the Grenadian government Hugh Wildman.
Clouden says he is making the call in light of the ruling of the Privy Council
in the Dipcon Engineering matter where over $17 million was awarded to that
company. Mr. Wildman was the main legal adviser in this matter.
In answer to a recent question, the leader
of government business admitted that the salary of Mr. Wildman was paid by a
foreign government but refused to say which one and how much money.
However it is widely speculated here that the salary is paid by an Asian
country. Clouden says that if Wildman's salary is continued to be paid by the
foreign mission it could be viewed as political interference sine the people
are now expected to pay the huge sum to Dipcon mainly as a result of bad legal
advice given to the government. Clouden added
that the pronouncements of the law lords where they stated that the Grenada
government played it fast and loose also related to the legal adviser Hugh
Wildman.
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