Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has said she has no is­sue with Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh’s com­pe­tence as a lawyer, but re­mains crit­i­cal of how his ap­point­ment as Chief Jus­tice was han­dled.

“I don’t think any­body dis­putes that Chief Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh is com­pe­tent,” Beck­les told the me­dia out­side of the Par­lia­ment. “He has been a teacher at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, teach­ing ethics.

That’s not the is­sue. The is­sue is that I gave very clear­ly the time­frame… 6:30 in the evening while I was in Par­lia­ment to bring a let­ter that had some er­rors, 8:30 in the morn­ing to deal with that er­ror, and then two o’clock you ap­point. That is not suf­fi­cient con­sul­ta­tion.”