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Elrington and Eamon, Can They Coexist?
posted (May 23, 2019)

For the past week we’ve been reporting on the bi-partisan committee which will be liaising between the government, the public, and the ICJ team at the Hague.  

It’s comprised of four members, two from the government and two from the opposition.  They are: Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney Leslie Mendez and Senior Senator Eamon Courtenay.  

Elrington told us today that he has been asked to chair the committee. He says the primary role of the committee will be to update the government and the public about what is happening during the ICJ court proceedings in the Hague. It sounds straightforward enough but still, all the members of the committee have to work closely together. But how is that going to work when Eamon Courtenay is on the committee as well? 

If you watch the news with any regularity, you’ll know that Elrington and Courtenay don’t have the friendliest of relations. Courtenay has gone on record to give Elrington all kinds of unfavorable characterizations, form incompetent to dishonest. Today, we asked Elrington about this and he said he doesn’t have time for the constant bickering and will focus on the work ahead.

Hon. Wilfred Elrington - Minister of Foreign Affairs
"Life is too short; actually I don’t think that there exists a person in the world that I can’t get along with because I have no problem with anybody. I have a job to do and I try to do it to the best of my ability, I don’t have a big ego, it is very difficult to insult me or for you to be so critical of me that I am going to be upset with you, no, my view when people say wrong things about me I take the position of the good Lord for they don’t know what they do so I don’t let that rent space in my head, that is their problem so I can work with anybody, including the demon."

The Agent, Assad Shoman will also liaise with and assist the committee as well. 

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