BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Mar.22.2018 – LEADER of the Opposition Dr. Denzil Douglas is hitting back at comments made by Attorney General, Hon. Vincent Byron surrounding the sexual allegations made against the AG’s Chambers.
Earlier last month, Douglas claimed in the National Assembly that a female was allegedly sexually assaulted in the AG’s Chambers, but Byron at the Prime Minister’s recent press conference refuted that claim.
Byron, said that from his understanding the only person who has made any claim that the Office of the Attorney General has been harassing them is the Leader of the Opposition.
He explained that the harassment claims from his understanding were made in the National Assembly after the government brought to the Parliament that Dr. Douglas was the holder of a Dominican Diplomatic passport.
But Douglas told a town hall meeting on Tuesday (Mar. 20) that he does not bring to the Parliament and the people of the country anything that is not based on truth.
He said: “I know that there has been a credible complaint that persons or at least one person, who we know for a fact, went into the Attorney General's Chambers to seek justice and she was sexually assaulted.”
Douglas pointed out that he will not comment further on the matter, as it is expected to come to light in a proper manner “through the legal judicial system that we have here in St. Kitts and Nevis”.
He added though that when the Attorney General makes some “asinine and idiotic” statement that nobody harasses Douglas in the Chambers, “I believe that the Attorney General himself should be the first to be looked at by the Prime Minister because he is head of his Chambers, and investigations should start with him…before it gets down to anyone else”.
