Regional women judges rebuke Antigua PM over controversial remarks

A group of re­gion­al as­so­ci­a­tions rep­re­sent­ing fe­male judges have crit­i­cised An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne over his now con­tro­ver­sial com­ments in re­la­tion to a judge in that coun­try.

The crit­i­cism was giv­en in a joint state­ment is­sued by the Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Women Judges, the Com­mon­wealth of The Ba­hamas As­so­ci­a­tion of Women Judges, the East­ern Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Women Judges, the Guyana As­so­ci­a­tion of Women Judges and T&T As­so­ci­a­tion of Women Judges last week.

The as­so­ci­a­tions stat­ed that they were grave­ly con­cerned by state­ments made by Browne last month, in which he took is­sue with ap­par­ent­ly le­nient sen­tences be­ing hand­ed down for vi­o­lent crimes by an un­named judge.