Gail Alexan­der

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan has not re­ceived a le­gal opin­ion from Sir El­lis Clarke on Ish Gal­barans­ingh and Steve Fer­gu­son's bid to be tried lo­cal­ly.

This was con­firmed yes­ter­day, af­ter a Guardian re­port on Clarke's le­gal opin­ion. Clarke said he be­lieved the duo should be tried lo­cal­ly and he crit­i­cised "pros­e­cut­ing au­thor­i­ties" on the is­sue.

Gal­barans­ingh and Fer­gu­son are fight­ing ex­tra­di­tion to the US, af­ter be­ing charged for fraud aris­ing out of the con­struc­tion of Pi­ar­co Air­port ter­mi­nal build­ing. Ram­lo­gan on Wednes­day de­clined com­ment on crit­i­cisms by In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tor He­len Dray­ton who had said that "road rage" had no place in the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al's of­fice.