Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo last Friday authorised Attorney General Basil Williams, SC, to request that Justice Franklin Holder recuse himself from presiding over Carvil Duncan’s challenge to his suspension as Public Service Commission Chairman, in light of his fear that he will not receive a fair hearing.
Nagamootoo, who is a party in Duncan’s civil suit, issued the authorisation on Friday and cited the judge’s complaint against Williams, who he wants to apologise for his conduct during the last hearing.
Nagamootoo’s letter, which was released by Williams’s confidential secretary yesterday, says that said that due to the alleged courtroom confrontation and the judge’s subsequent petition to acting Chancellor Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, he was of the opinion that “neither the state, nor, I will receive fair hearing in the matter.”
