Ex-PNM AG Jeremie returns under UNC

John Je­re­mie, SC, was sworn in yes­ter­day as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s new At­tor­ney Gen­er­al at Pres­i­dent’s House—mark­ing a his­toric re­turn to pub­lic of­fice un­der a dif­fer­ent po­lit­i­cal ban­ner.

Je­re­mie, who pre­vi­ous­ly served as AG un­der Patrick Man­ning’s Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2010, is now the first per­son to hold the po­si­tion un­der two po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

His en­dorse­ment of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­gan pub­licly at a Pe­nal meet­ing on April 14, where he praised her lead­er­ship and their long-stand­ing per­son­al con­nec­tion.