Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall says that union leader Lincoln Lewis’ petition to the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which alleges government-promoted racism and discrimination against persons of African descent, ignored the local judicial options for redress.
“In my considered view, your haste to leap-frog the local judicial process in order to prejudicially internationalise your client’s alleged grievance, may have caused you to overlook the proscription imposed by Article 154 (2) of the Constitution, which may altogether disqualify your client’s proposed petition…” he said, in a letter, dated September 5, 2012, to Lewis’ attorney Nigel Hughes. The letter was copied to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination through the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
In July, Lewis petitioned the UN Committee, accusing the government of
