And while Courtenay is keeping the pressure on Ramlogan - about whose professional conduct he has not minced words - we asked him about the affidavit filed by his client the Prime Minister - which contained a falsehood. It said the Prime Minister had not known any other Prime Minister to announce the data of a general election inside the National Assembly - when Said Musa did it in 2003.
Courtenay says it was just a simple error of recall:
Jules Vasquez
"Do you regret that your client, the Prime Minister of Belize, made a rather obvious misrepresentation in his sworn affidavit when he said that he, to his knowledge, had never known a prime minister to call an election in, to announce an election date in the National Assembly, when, as we now know, he sat beside Said Musa as he did it in 2003."
Eamon Courtenay, SC, Attorney for the AG
"That was obviously a mistake, I can tell you that I didn't remember Prime Minister Musa announcing it, but it's immaterial. It's a mistake and we all make mistakes."
Jules Vasquez
"But a mistake in a sworn affidavit is a matter of consequence, when. especially when it's from the highest office in the land."
Eamon Courtenay, SC, Attorney for the AG
"Agreed. Agreed. And I think, I mean, you interviewed him. I mean, I don't think he denied. I mean, I didn't see. I don't know but you interviewed him. We will not insist to the contrary. But I obviously say it was a mistake that was made, and, we would have easily have said that the it was done once, as far as I know, if it's the only occasion."
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