Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

The Unit­ed States cam­paign to dis­man­tle the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) has prompt­ed warn­ings in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with for­mer NAR and UNC min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an say­ing any move to weak­en or aban­don the court would have pro­found im­pli­ca­tions for glob­al ju­rispru­dence.

At the same time, Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) leader David Ab­du­lah has urged the Gov­ern­ment not to sup­port the US ef­fort, say­ing it would un­der­mine the lega­cy of late for­mer prime min­is­ter ANR Robin­son, whose ini­tia­tive helped cre­ate the ICC. Sim­i­lar­ly, In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment not to re­main silent on the mat­ter.